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Armando Iannucci
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Armando Giovanni Iannucci CBE (/jəˈnuːtʃi/ yə-NOO-chee; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer and performer. Born in Glasgow to Italian paren…
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Armando Giovanni Iannucci CBE (/jəˈnuːtʃi/ yə-NOO-chee; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer and performer. Born in Glasgow to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the University of Glasgow, followed by the University of Oxford. Starting on BBC Scotland and BBC Radio 4, his early work with Chris Morris on the radio series On the Hour transferred to television as The Day Today. A character from this series, Alan Partridge, co-created by Iannucci, went on to feature in several of Iannucci's television and radio programmes, including Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge and I'm Alan Partridge. Iannucci also fronted the satirical Armistice review shows and, in 2001, created his most personal work, The Armando Iannucci Shows, for Channel 4. Moving back to the BBC in 2005, Iannucci created the political sitcom The Thick of It and the spoof documentary Time Trumpet in 2006. In 2009, he won funding from the UK Film Council. He directed the critically acclaimed feature film In the Loop, featuring characters from The Thick of It. As a result of these works, he has been described by The Daily Telegraph as "the hardman of political satire". Other works during this period include the operetta libretto Skin Deep and his radio series Charm Offensive. Iannucci created the HBO political satire Veep and was its showrunner for four seasons from 2012 to 2015. For his work on Veep, he won two Emmys in 2015, Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. He followed this with the feature films The Death of Stalin (2017) and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), a 2019 adaptation of the novel David Copperfield. In 2020, he created the comedy series Avenue 5 on HBO. Description above from the Wikipedia article Armando Iannucci, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2025
National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove
Movie Screenplay
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2025
The Academy of Armando
Movie Self
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2025
Can Elon Musk Rule the World?
Movie Self
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2024
The Franchise
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
Art Matters
Movie Self
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2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV show Self – Writer and satirist
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2020
Avenue 5
TV show Director
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2019
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Movie Director
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2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2018
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2017
Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
Movie Himself
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2017
The Death of Stalin
Movie Director
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2017
The Russell Howard Hour
TV show Self
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2016
Gaga for Dada: The Original Art Rebels
Movie Himself
- 2015
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2015
Taskmaster
TV show Self
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2015
Artsnight
TV show Self - Presenter
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2014
A Life on Screen
TV show Self
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2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Movie Self
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2014
The Comedy Vaults: BBC2's Hidden Treasure
Movie Self
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2013
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Movie Writer
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2013
The Last Leg
TV show Self
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2012
Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life
Movie Executive Producer
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2012
Veep
TV show Executive Producer
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2012
Armando's Tale of Charles Dickens
Movie Self
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2010
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
TV show Director
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2009
You Have Been Watching
TV show Self
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2009
Milton's Heaven and Hell
Movie Presenter
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2009
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
TV show Interviewer
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2009
In the Loop
Movie Screenplay
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2008
Q&A
TV show Self - Panellist
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2007
The Thick of It
Movie Executive Producer
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2007
Comics Britannia
TV show Himself - Narrator
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2007
Spinners and Losers
Movie Director
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2007
Would I Lie to You?
TV show Self
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2007
The Rise of the Nutters
Movie Creator
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2006
Time Trumpet
TV show
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2005
The Thick of It
TV show Director
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2004
2004: The Stupid Version
TV show Himself
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2004
Britain's Best Sitcom
TV show Himself/Presenter
