68 Fantastic British Names Gathered While Watching BBC Credits Over the Years
68. Rupert Scrivener
67. Sue Birtwistle
66. Clive Swift
65. Ridgewell Hawkes
64. Vincent Brimble
63. Talfryn Thomas
62. Nigel Plaskitt
61. Felicity Gibson
60. Malcolm Terris
59. Nicholas Hawtrey
58. Royston Farrell
57. Prentis Hancock
56. Terrance Dicks
55. Nigel Humphreys
54. Mervyn Pinfield
53. Valerie Pye
52. Fionnula Tambling-Goggin
51. Bryonie Pritchard
50. Pat Pennelegion
49. Eunice Montjoy
48. Antonia Pemberton
47. Cedric Kerr
46. Fitz-Lloyd Smith
45. Imogen Bickford-Smith
44. Camilla Griffith-Jones
43. Gillian Tullett
42. Nuala Alen-Buckley
41. Pip Torrens
40. Cyril Swern
39. Laurence Luckinbill
38. Celestia Fox
37. Royston Munt
36. Mia Fothergill
35. Giles Oldershaw
34. Rosalie Crutchley
33. Imogen Millais-Scott
32. Gwenda Hughes
31. Dermot Crowley
30. Joan Dainty
29. Cordelia Ditton
28. Arthur Nightingale
27. Jemima Rooper
26. Prunella Scales
25. Anne Trickelbank
24. Rodney Cammish
23. Valerie Unwin
22. Alexander Faris
21. Nicola Pagett
20. Rosamund Pike
19. Jeremy Silberston
18. Pippa Harris
17. Lesley Altringham .
16. Graham Crowden
15. Cyril Coke
14. Helen Slaymaker
13. Gillian McCutcheon
12. Eve Petcher
11. Lulu Popplewell
10. Nicola Parfit
9. St. John O'Rorke
8. Alf Tramontin
7. Jayne Spooner
6. Marnie Dickens
5. Nigel Bunyan
4. Felix Pickles
3. Camise Oldfield
2. Nimmy March (Lady Naomi Burke, née Gordon-Lennox)
1. Derek Honeybun
Mikki Halpin is a writer in Brooklyn. In her mind, she is a writer in a cottage in Britain. She can be found on the internet at Mikkipedia.
500 bonus points for no Reginalds.
But minus a few for forgetting Bamber Gascoigne.
I'll go ahead and say it: the world needs more Pips.
Move to Australia = receive your wish.
Felix Pickles is a children's book I am writing about the joys of vegetable preservation.
It's a name AND a sentence!
… and a brand!
And, perhaps, an awesome dog-Latin motto on someone's coat of arms.
I had some bother over Mr. Pickles–there is also a brand of pickles called Felix Pickles, I believe. But I saw the name more than once and it's too good to skip.
Isn't that the motto of the brand? "Felix Pickles: They're Too Good To Skip."
stop writing love missives to Snooki, deep.
No really, Brosieppe, walk away from this now unless you plan on bulking up and pickling yourself in a 300 gallon drum of Clenbutorol.
Gef? What happens when these folks arrive at the Dorrian?
The answer is "universe-engulfing singularity," right?
I saw this list and I'm like "now you're just fucking with me."
Hazel Pethig!
Bien sûr !
Genius costume designer to the Monty Pythons, yes.
Prunella Scales FTW!
She played Sybil Fawlty.
What day were you watching? Any BBC credit has at least two Aubrey's in it.
Ok, so it wasn't on BBC, but I was watching Another Country last week and the credit roll had no less than 5 or 6 Aubrey's, several Tristram's, Crispins, Llewellyn's etc. It was seriously the best list of Grand Britannia namage ever. Merchant~Ivory would have wept.
*lights a candle for Rupert Everett's former face*
Still can't hold a candle to (former) Children's Secretary Ed Balls.
Presently: Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls
There's a BBC Radio newsreader at the moment called Fenella Fudge.
You left out my favorite, superstar nature documentary producer Alastair Fothergill
Seconded!
What of Benedict Cumberbatch, the BBC's (delightful) new Sherlock Holmes?
'Prentis Hancock' I've got a thing or two to teach you.
How could you miss TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall?
Ha, I was waiting for you to show up!
So says the man whose name is Choire Sicha
My real name is Tarquin Cholmondeley-Smythe by the way.
"Cholmondelay" is one of those words that just encapsulates English so well: an originally French word that has about ten letters that are actually silent.
Featherstonehaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) takes the cake, though.
I thought it was pronounced 'Foon.' Silly Yankee me.
Mykola Pawluk is probably reading this right now. Crying.
P.S. Did anyone watch the pilot of Sherlock?
I'm still not sure if I'm into it, but I'll def watch the next episode..
Is it good? I was thinking of getting my hands on it.
I did! I was pleasantly surprised, to be honest, and I can't wait for the next episode. (Cumberbatch — why not Cumbersnatch? — was very good, but mostly I was really happy to see Martin Freeman playing someone mostly very unlike Tim.)
Oh, and don't forget "The Good Life's" Felicity Kendall. Rowr!
I'll share one of my secret favorite defunct websites (last post: April 29, 2002) : "Advice from Sir Charles Grandiose". The cast of characters would fit right in with this list.
Oh dear god, how am I going to get ANYTHING done today now??
HAHAHA I just noticed the picture! LARK RISE 4EVA. Choire let's go out for tea soon and use fake Brit accents the whole time, it will be brilliant.
SAFFY IS A POSTMISTRESS!!!!
Also, the redhead main character girl, before this latest Who season got started I thought she was Karen Gillan and I was… not enthused. She's really Not Very Good. But Alfie is HAWT! I think him and the gamekeeper should have gotten together.
Oh God Alfie is just so in-your-face homespun that I can't buy it, esp when he sings. My heart belongs to the sexy bad boy clock maker who brings the Future to Candleford. Or RObert Timmins.
The red haired girl played a badass lesbian teen on some other show.
Oh man, My Number Is My Address is gonna be SO PISSED when he sees this.
Rupert Scrivener would bloody well prefer not to, oh all right, go on then.
Nary a Sebastian or Giles in the lot!
Granted Foyle's War runs on ITV, not BBC, but what about 'Honeysuckle Weekes?'
She is every bit as lovely as her name.
Now, if we can only get all of these names set to the beat and tune of "Alejandro" by Lady Gaga … we'd all have something to listen to.
Wilfred Brambell, Simon Callow, Imogen Stubbs, Corin Redgrave, Rupert Graves, Jeremy Kemp, Jeremy Brett, Griff Rhys Jones, etc. etc.
I'd like to add Julian Rhind Tutt, who is reading Bulldog Drummond on the BBC. A part I always imagined played by Pipp Torrens. Truly.
Laurence Luckenbill is married to Lucie Arnaz.
Even if you don't speak german, this is pretty funny — a german sketch comedy show, in which the announcer is giving a precis of their upcoming english mystery show… Since the names are all VERY british, the poor woman has mucho trouble pronouncing most of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHaW-KxA0sg
HA HA ENGLISH!
how do i love these. I think Pip Torrens and Fionnula Tambling-Goggin are my favorites but i love them all.
What, no Honeysuckle Weeks?
Well at least the first names are mostly recognizable as first names. In the US these days, every kid I know has a surname as a first name.
Isn't that a traditional thing? Like, first son gets the mother's maiden name as a first name?
What about Honeysuckle Weeks?
I personally know a Cressida Tonks. That's my most favourite English name, ever.
Add Trevor Puckle & Fliss Combs two great names of people who have contributed to BBC productions.
Laurence Luckinbill is American (I'm a bit sad that I know this), although that name does reek of Pimms and the Empire.
I used to know two sisters called Amelia and Tamsin.
No Myfanwys? Or have the Welsh still not attained the level of acceptance to be considered British? If that's the case, I'm with you fully. Disgusting coal-mining tossers, the whole lot.
St. John O'Rorke and Dermot Crowley are Irish, not British, names as is Royston Farrell's family name.
What, no Sir Vere Brabazon Ponsonby?
A British colleague of mine goes by the delightful sobriquet Mo Hooker.