Tom Bell (comedy actor)

For the earlier actor with the same name, see Tom Bell (actor).

Tom Bell (born 8 January 1981 in Nottingham) is an English comedy actor, and a creature and droid performer in the Star Wars franchise.

He has played a range of roles in the topical BBC comedy show The Mash Report and its Dave continuation Late Night Mash , ^[1] portrayed the recurring character Jathro in Wizards vs Aliens and played Ubdurian alien Prashee in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens .

Career

He began his career as one half of the sketch duo Tommy and the Weeks opposite Ed Weeks. Weeks was president of Cambridge Footlights while Bell was vice-president. ^[2] Other work includes a long-running series of adverts as one of the 118 118 men, shows on community arts radio station Resonance FM, Lord Fear in the stage production Knightmare Live, ^[3] numerous appearances with The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society and the one-man show Tom Bell Begins. ^[4]

He appeared as himself in the fourth season of the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reality series Project Greenlight , charting the developing of the HBO film The Leisure Class in which Bell stars with Weeks. ^[2]

Selected filmography

Film ^[5]

• Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) – creature and droid puppeteer
• The Leisure Class (2015) – Leonard
• The Current War (2016) – Reverend Vincent
• Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) – creature and droid puppeteer
• The Aftermath (2019) – Captain Eliot
• A Guide to Second Date Sex (2019) – Adam

Television ^[5]

• Nolly (2023) – Rodney
• Dick and Dom's Funny Business (2011) – various
• Wizards vs Aliens (2012-2014) – Jathro
• Anna & Katy (2013) – various
• Big Bad World (2013) – Jerome
• Ludus (2014-2015) - Ludus
• Horrible Science (2015) – Bob
• Project Greenlight – himself
• Doctor Thorne (2016) – Lord Porlock
• American Dad! (2016) – Portrait Painter
• Ill Behaviour (2017) – Andrew
• Bromans (2017) – Dominus ^[6]
• Lovesick (2018) – Ben
• Press (2018) – Jon Brooks
• The Mash Report (2018-2020) – various
• Harlots (2019) – Mr Bradley
• This Way Up (2019) – David
• Murder, They Hope (2021) – Barry
• Late Night Mash (2021) – various

Notes

1. "Tom Bell - British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 2022-07-19.
2. "The Unlikely Journey of a British Sketch Duo to HBO's 'Project Greenlight' - Vulture". 2 November 2015. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
3. "KNIGHTMARE LIVE LEVEL 2". STARBURST Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
4. "Tom Bell Begins - British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 2022-07-19.
5. "Tom Bell (IX)" . Retrieved 2022-07-19– via www.imdb.com.
6. "Bromans - UKGameshows" . Retrieved 2022-07-19.

External links

• Tom Bell's website