Mark Gatiss
Birthdate
October 17, 1966 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Details
Birthdate
October 17, 1966 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Biography
Mark Gatiss is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist. He is known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen alongside Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and co-writer Jeremy Dyson, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock, the latter of which he also co-created.
Mark Gatiss's LGBTQ+ Titles
The Favourite
Lord Marlborough
Against the Law
Dr. Landers
Acting (161)
Bookish as Gabriel Book (6 episodes)
Highgate House of Horror
2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as NSA
2024
Moonflower Murders as Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin (6 episodes)
2024
Time Bandits as Earl of Sandwich (1 episode)
2024
Time Bandits as Earl of Sandwich (voice) (1 episode)
2024
3 Body Problem as Isaac Newton (1 episode)
2024
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue as Sir John Gielgud
2023
The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sherlock Holmes
2023
Hammer A.D. 2023 as Self
2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One as NSA
2023
Nolly as Larry Grayson (3 episodes)
2022
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story as Jacob Marley
2022
Peter Davison: Uncut!
2022
Inside Classical as Sherlock Holmes (1 episode)
2022
The Road Dance as Doctor Maclean
2022
Operation Mincemeat as Ivor Montazac
2021
The Amazing Mr. Blunden as Mr. Wickens
2021
Memento Mori as Henry Huxley
2021
The Sparks Brothers as Self
2021
A Silent Imprisonment as Mr Murphy
2021
Locked Down as Donald
2020
The Father as The Man
2020
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
2020
Tales of the Uncanny as Self
2020
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Himself
2020
In Search of Dracula as Himself - Presenter
2020
Dracula as Frank Renfield (3 episodes)
2019
Doctor Who and the Third Man as Himself
2019
Good Omens as Mr. Harmony (2 episodes)
2019
Brexit: The Uncivil War as Peter Mandelson (voice)
2018
The Dead Room as Radio Announcer (voice)
2018
The Favourite as Lord Marlborough
2018
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III as George III
2018
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again! as Various Characters
2018
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art as Himself - Presenter
2018
Christopher Robin as Giles Winslow
2018
The Mercy as Ronald Hall
2017
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time as The Captain
2017
Gunpowder as Sir Robert Cecil (3 episodes)
2017
Mars: a Traveller's Guide as Narrator
2017
Against the Law as Dr. Landers
2017
Taboo as Prince Regent (5 episodes)
2016
Denial as Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie as Joel
2016
Our Kind of Traitor as Billy Matlock
2016
Dad's Army as Colonel Theakes
2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock as Himself
2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as Mycroft Holmes
2015
Victor Frankenstein as Dettweiler
2015
London Spy as Rich (1 episode)
2015
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet as Himself
2015
The Vote as Steven Crosswell
2015
Release the Hound! as Self
2015
Thunderbirds Are Go! as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice) (1 episode)
2015
Coalition as Peter Mandelson
2015
Wolf Hall as Stephen Gardiner (4 episodes)
2014
Mapp and Lucia as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint (3 episodes)
2014
Doctor Who Extra as Self (1 episode)
2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy as Self
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction as Himself - Narrator (voice) (4 episodes)
2014
Inside No. 9 as Callum (1 episode)
2014
Inside No. 9 as Self (1 episode)
2014
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus as Menenius Agrippa
2014
Unlocking Sherlock as Himself / Mark Gatiss
2013
M.R. James: Ghost Writer as Presenter
2013
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor as Self
2013
Dr. Forever! as Himself (5 episodes)
2012
Doctor Who: The Great Detective as Narrator
2012
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss as Self - Host
2012
The Real Sherlock Holmes as Self
2012
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness as Self - Actor and Writer
2011
Cleaning Up as Mr Jackson
2011
Game of Thrones as Tycho Nestoris (4 episodes)
2011
The Crimson Petal and the White as Henry Rackham Junior (4 episodes)
2010
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge (1 episode)
2010
The First Men in the Moon as Cavor
2010
A History of Horror as Self - Presenter (3 episodes)
2010
Unlocking Sherlock as Himself
2010
Sherlock as Mycroft Holmes (12 episodes)
2010
Sherlock as Self (1 episode)
2010
Sherlock as Self / Mycroft Holmes (1 episode)
2010
Worried About the Boy as Malcolm McLaren
2009
Ghosts in the Machine as Himself
2009
Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self (2 episodes)
2009
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen as Ernest Dunks
2009
Psychoville (1 episode)
2009
Horrible Histories (9 episodes)
2009
New Town as Duff Purves
2009
Being Human as Mr. Snow (2 episodes)
2008
Crooked House as The Curator (3 episodes)
2008
Clone as Colonel Black (6 episodes)
2008
Only Connect as Self - Contestant (1 episode)
2008
Sense and Sensibility as John Dashwood (3 episodes)
2007
Consenting Adults as PC Butcher
2007
Jekyll as Robert Louis Stevenson (6 episodes)
2007
The Worst Journey in the World as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
2007
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat as Himself (1 episode)
2007
Grindhouse as (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
2007
Don't as Roddy McDowel
2006
The Wind in the Willows as Rat
2006
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You as Hilary Briss / Mickey Michaels / Val Denton / Les McQueen / Lance Longthorne / Alvin Steele / Phil Proctor / Mrs Beasley / Mick McNamara / Neds / Lotte Lipp / Brian Morgan / Dr Chinnery / Iris Krell / Bobbin
2006
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
2006
Fear of Fanny as Johnnie Cradock
2006
Starter for 10 as Bamber Gascoigne
2006
Free Jimmy as Jakki (voice)
2005
Return of the Goodies as Himself
2005
Match Point as Ping-Pong Player
2005
Funland (4 episodes)
2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Miss Blight (voice)
2005
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self - The League of Gentlemen
2005
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse as Various Characters
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Additional Vogon Voices
2005
The Quatermass Experiment as John Paterson
2005
Doctor Who Confidential (3 episodes)
2005
Doctor Who Confidential as Narrator (13 episodes)
2005
Doctor Who as Gantok (2 episodes)
2005
Doctor Who as Richard Lazarus (1 episode)
2005
Doctor Who as The Captain (1 episode)
2005
Doctor Who: A New Dimension as Self
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple as Ronald Hawes (1 episode)
2004
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self (1 episode)
2004
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures as Kenyon
2004
Global Conspiracy? as Terry Scanlon
2004
Spaced: Skip to the End as Self
2004
Shaun of the Dead as Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
2004
Sex Lives of the Potato Men as Jeremy
2004
Catterick as Peter (1 episode)
2004
Nighty Night (1 episode)
2004
Nighty Night as Glenn Bulb (12 episodes)
2003
The Kneale Tapes as Self
2003
Bright Young Things as House Agent
2003
Little Britain (1 episode)
2003
QI as Self (1 episode)
2002
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe as Viking (voice)
2002
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Louis Aragon
2002
Footballers' Wives as Teddy - Agent (1 episode)
2002
The Cicerones as John Trant
2001
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane as various
2001
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible as Hang Man Chang (1 episode)
2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self (1 episode)
2001
Birthday Girl as Porter
2000
The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (1 episode)
1999
The Pitch of Fear as Mr. Borusa
1999
The Web of Caves as The Doctor
1999
The Kidnappers as Mark
1999
Spaced as Agent (1 episode)
1999
The League of Gentlemen (18 episodes)
1998
In the Red as Junior Detective (3 episodes)
1998
This Morning with Richard Not Judy (18 episodes)
1997
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
Midsomer Murders as Rev Giles Shawcross (1 episode)
1996
Unnatural Selection as Mr. Emerson
1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self - Interviewer
1995
The Devil of Winterborne as Georgie
1995
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1994
The Dwelling Place as Bowmer (3 episodes)
1994
The Zero Imperative as Dr. William Bruffin
1993
Harry as Diner Manager (1 episode)
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Leonard Boynton (1 episode)
Directing (10)
2024
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone
• Director
2023
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
• Director
2022
Count Magnus
• Director
2021
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
• Director
2021
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
• Director
2019
Martin's Close
• Director
2018
The Dead Room
• Director
2017
Queers. (8 episodes)
• Director (8 episodes)
2013
The Tractate Middoth
• Director
1971
A Ghost Story for Christmas (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
Production (11)
2020
Dracula (3 episodes)
• Executive Producer (3 episodes)
2019
Martin's Close
• Executive Producer
2018
The Dead Room
• Executive Producer
2017
Queers. (8 episodes)
• Producer (8 episodes)
2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
• Executive Producer
2013
An Adventure in Space and Time
• Executive Producer
2010
Sherlock (12 episodes)
• Executive Producer (12 episodes)
2008
Crooked House (3 episodes)
• Producer (3 episodes)
2007
The Worst Journey in the World
• Co-Producer
2005
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
• Executive Producer
2004
Global Conspiracy?
• Producer
Creator (5)
Bookish
• Creator
2020
Dracula
• Creator
2010
Sherlock
• Creator
2008
Crooked House
• Creator
1999
The League of Gentlemen
• Creator
Writing (39)
Bookish (6 episodes)
• Writer (6 episodes)
2024
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone
• Writer
2023
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
• Screenplay
2022
Count Magnus
• Writer
2022
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
• Adaptation
2021
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
• Screenplay
2021
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
• Writer
2020
Dracula (3 episodes)
• Writer (3 episodes)
2019
Martin's Close
• Writer
2018
The Dead Room
• Writer
2017
Queers. (8 episodes)
• Writer (8 episodes)
2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
• Writer
2013
The Tractate Middoth
• Writer
2013
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
• Writer
2013
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
• Writer
2013
An Adventure in Space and Time
• Writer
2012
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
• Writer
2010
The First Men in the Moon
• Screenplay
2010
A History of Horror (3 episodes)
• Writer (3 episodes)
2010
Sherlock (8 episodes)
• Writer (8 episodes)
2008
Crooked House (3 episodes)
• Writer (3 episodes)
2007
The Worst Journey in the World
• Writer
2006
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
• Author
2006
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
• Writer
2005
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
• Writer
2005
Doctor Who (9 episodes)
• Writer (9 episodes)
2004
Global Conspiracy?
• Writer
2001
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
• Writer
2000
The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
• Writer
2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (1 episode)
• Writer (1 episode)
1999
The Pitch of Fear
• Writer
1999
The Web of Caves
• Writer
1999
The Kidnappers
• Writer
1999
The League of Gentlemen (19 episodes)
• Writer (19 episodes)
1996
Ghosts of Winterborne
• Writer
1996
Unnatural Selection
• Writer
1995
The Devil of Winterborne
• Writer
1994
The Zero Imperative
• Writer
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot (3 episodes)
• Screenplay (3 episodes)
Crew (1)
2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
• Creator