Russ Abbot is an English musician, comedian and actor. Born in Chester, he first came to public notice during the 1970s as the singer and drummer with British comedy showband the Black Abbots, later forging a prominent solo career as a television comedian with his own weekly show on British television.

Filmography

• Funny Valentines — Morris Roebuck
• Boomers — John
• 2012Run For Your Wife — Hospital Patient
• 2007A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden — Jules Rendell
• The Sarah Jane Adventures — Martin Trueman
• Hotel Babylon — Mr. Poldark
• 2005National Theatre: My Fair Lady
• Agatha Christie's Marple — CI Arthur Primer
• Dream Street — Narrator
• 1998Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh — Fagin
• Married for Life — Ted Butler
• September Song — Ted Fenwick
• Heartbeat — Stanley Leroy
• Daytime Live
• Casualty — Simon Lancaster, Malcolm Crowson
• The Russ Abbot Show
• Russ Abbot's Madhouse
• Freddie Starr's Variety Madhouse
• Last of the Summer Wine — Hobbo
• The Comedians
• Dream Street — Narrator/Tech/The Sleeping Policeman (voice)

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2022Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs — Self
• 2018Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were — Self
• The Michael Ball Show — Self
• 2008Spectreman vs. Russ Abbott — Himself
• Live From Her Majesty's — Self