David Mitchell

David Mitchell

Date of birth: 14-07-1974
David Mitchell wanted to be a comedian ever since he was a schoolboy, and after going up to Cambridge in 1993 , he joined the famous Footlights troupe – eventually becoming president. It was in his first year of university that he met Robert Webb, when they were both auditioning for a student pantomime.

They wrote their first show – the First-World-War-based Millions Dead or Dying ( a wry look at the post-apocalyptic age with songs) – while at university, and took it to the 1997 Edinburgh fringe.

After graduating, they appeared in regular sketch nights on the London circuit, and wrote for a number of shows including Armstrong & Miller and Big Train. Theyreturned to Ediburgh with Shopping and St***-Up (1998), The Mitchell & Webb Story (1999) and The Mitchell & Webb Clones (2001)

Their first break into television came in 2000, on the short-lived BBC sketch show Bruiser, which led to their own show on the now-defunct Play UK the following year, The Mitchell and Webb Situation.

In 2003, they landed the roles that woul dmake their name, as flatmates Mark Corrigan (Mitchell) and Jeremy Usbourne (Webb) in the multi-award-winning Peep Show, written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain. In 2009, Mitchell won the Bafta for Best Comedy Performance for his work on the show – while Robert Webb wasn't even nominated. The show's sixth series is due out in 2009.

Alongside this, they continued to work on their own sketch series, first on Radio 4 with three series of That Mitchell and Webb, which trasferred to TV as That Mitchell and Webb Look and had three series by 2009, winning a Bafta for best comedy in 2007.

In 2006 the pair made their first tour, The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb, which was nominated for best stage comedy at the the British Comedy Awards, and the following year their first film, Magicians, was release, while they also fronted Apple's Mac vs PC ads.

As a solo artist, Mitchell has appeared in countless panel shows, including hosting Radio 4 's The Unbelievable Truth. He also appeared in the 2001 Radio 4 sitcom Think the Unthinkable and the 2005 BBC updating of The Taming Of The Shrew and played the recurring character of Dr James Vine in the Jennifer Saunders sitcom Jam and Jerusalem.

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First look at David Mitchell as Ludwig

As Anna Maxwell Martin joins cast of the quirky crime comedy-drama.

Filming has begun on BBC One’s new detective series Ludwig, starring David Mitchell – with producers today releasing this first-look image.

It has also been announced that Anna Maxwell Martin is joining the cast of the six-part series.

Mitchell says: ‘I’m delighted to be working in a genre of television that I have loved ever since, at the age of 10, I started watching the Miss Marple adaptations, starring Joan Hickson, with my parents. Sometimes the only thing that can bring the whole family together is murder.’

In the show, Mitchell plays  John  Taylor, a loner who does not own a computer, mobile phone or even a television, but lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of Ludwig. 

But when his brother James – a successful DCI leading Cambridge’s busy major crimes team – goes missing, John takes over his  brother’s identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts.

Motherland and Line of Duty star Maxwell Martin  plays Lucy, James’s wife, in the 'case-of-the-week’ crime comedy-drama. Also joining the cast are Dipo Ola, Gerran Howell, Izuka Hoyle, Dylan Hughes  and Dorothy Atkinson.

No broadcast date has yet been announced.

Ludwig production credits

Made by: Big Talk Studios in association with That Mitchell And Webb Company
Written and created by: Mark Brotherhood.
Executive producers: Kenton Allen, Mark Brotherhood, Saurabh Kakkar, David Mitchell, Kathryn O’Connor and Chris Sussman
 Producer: Georgie Fallon
Directors: Robert McKillop and Jill Robertson
Commissioned by: Jon Petrie, director of comedy commissioning at the BBC
Commissioning editor: Tanya Qureshi

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Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2001

Mitchell and Webb Clones


Edinburgh Fringe 2011

BBC: The Unbelievable Truth


Edinburgh Fringe 2012

BBC: The Unbelievable Truth 2012


Edinburgh Fringe 2013

BBC: The Unbelievable Truth [2013]


Misc live shows

David Mitchell Live


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