Peter Baynham

ProducerWriterActorProductionDirector Jun 28 (age 63) Cardiff, Wales, UK 1984–2026 (42 year career)

7.1 avg rating

Biography

Peter Baynham is a Welsh screenwriter and performer. He is best known for appearing in a series of comedic Pot Noodle television adverts in the 1990s. His work largely represents collaborations with comedy figures such as Armando Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Sarah Smith. Born in Cardiff, Baynham served in the Merchant Navy after leaving school and later pursued a career in comedy — first in stand-up, and then as a writer and performer for various news and sketch c…

Known For

Film

Shaun of the Dead

Man in Street (uncredited)

Film

Hotel Transylvania

Screenplay

Film

Ron's Gone Wrong

Executive Producer

Film

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Screenplay

Film

I Am Not an Animal

Director

Film

The Dictator

Executive Producer

Film

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Executive Producer

Film

Arthur Christmas

Elf (voice)

Filmography

Acting (18)

Movies (11)

Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?

as Himself

Grimsby

as Traffic Warden

Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand

2016

8.5

Bright Day

2012

as Daddy

Arthur Christmas

2011

as Elf (voice)

6.8

Shaun of the Dead

2004

as Man in Street (uncredited)

7.5

Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge

2003

as Ray Woollard

8.0

The Junkies

2001

as Jackie

Still Crazy

1998

as Kevin

6.8

Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who and Why? A Quest

as Ross Woollard

Lee and Herring Live

as Peter

Television (7)

Bob and Margaret

I'm Alan Partridge

as Hugh Morris

Brass Eye

as Sven Yabbsley

Fist of Fun

The Saturday Night Armistice

The Day Today

as Colin Poppshed

The Bill

as Mickey Tulliver

Crew (38)

Movies (26)

Ali G: Who Iz I?

2026 Upcoming

Producer

Oct 22

Ali G: Who Iz I?

2026 Upcoming

Screenplay

Oct 22

Ali G: Who Iz I?

2026 Upcoming

Story

Oct 22

Ron's Gone Wrong

Executive Producer

Ron's Gone Wrong

Writer

Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision

2021

Executive Producer

6.7

Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision

2021

Writer

6.7

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2020

Executive Producer

6.4

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Screenplay

Grimsby

Producer

Grimsby

Screenplay

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

2013

Executive Producer

6.6

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Writer

Hotel Transylvania

Screenplay

The Dictator

Executive Producer

Arthur Christmas

Co-Executive Producer

Arthur Christmas

Screenplay

Arthur

Screenplay

Brüno

Associate Producer

Brüno

Story

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2006

Screenplay

6.8

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2006

Story

6.8

Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge

2003

Associate Producer

8.0

Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge

Writer

Cruise of the Gods

Writer

Combat Sheep

Writer

Television (12)

I Am Not an Animal

Director

I Am Not an Animal

Writer

Jam

Writer

Big Train

Writer

I'm Alan Partridge

Producer

I'm Alan Partridge

Writer

Brass Eye

Additional Writing

Brass Eye

Writer

Fist of Fun

Writer

The Saturday Night Armistice

Writer

The Day Today

Writer

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

1992

Script

6.5