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Acting

Mark Gatiss

Career: Active from 1971 to 2025, with a break from 1972 to 1988, busiest in 2018 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 39
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: An Adventure in Space and Time
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 87 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Mark Gatiss Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.7, average 5.4
Violence
3.2, average 4.1
Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0
Adrenaline
3.9, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 9
Character Study 6
Witty Dialogue 6
Historical Drama 5
Political Intrigue 5
Behind-the-Scenes 3
Psychological Thriller 3
Atmospheric 2
Crime 2
Mystery 2
Complex Plot 2
High Stakes 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

134

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

2 titles

A Ticket Too Far

as Marshall

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Bride's Chamber

Writer, Director

2020s

29 titles · average score 68

Bookish

82

TV show · as Gabriel Book

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

51

Director, Writer

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

80

as Sir John Gielgud

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249

58

Director, Screenplay

Nolly

81

TV show · as Larry Grayson

The Road Dance

62

as Doctor MacLean

Operation Mincemeat

69

as Ivor Montazac

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus

58

Director, Writer

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

61

as Mr. Wickens

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

68

Director, Screenplay

The Father

89

as The Man

Dracula

68

TV show · as Frank Renfield

2010s

43 titles · average score 71

The Favourite

83

as Lord Marlborough

The Dead Room

54

as Radio Announcer (voice)

The Mercy

60

as Ronald Hall

Gunpowder

66

TV show · as Sir Robert Cecil

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

79

as The Captain

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

77

as Mycroft Holmes

Our Kind of Traitor

61

as Billy Matlock

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

82

as Menenius Agrippa

An Adventure in Space and Time

89

Executive Producer, Writer

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns

80

Writer

Sherlock

84

TV show · as Mycroft Holmes

The First Men in the Moon

55

as Cavor

2000s

43 titles · average score 68

Crooked House

68

TV show · as The Curator

Clone

38

TV show · as Colonel Black

Jekyll

74

TV show · as Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wind in the Willows

60

as Rat

Fear of Fanny

70

as Johnnie Cradock

The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You

76

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

Doctor Who

78

TV show · as Gantok / Richard Lazarus

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

69

as Various Characters

The Quatermass Experiment

52

as John Paterson

Nighty Night

79

TV show · as Glenn Bulb

The Cicerones

as John Trant

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

67

TV show · Writer

1990s

15 titles · average score 80

The League of Gentlemen

89

TV show · as Various

The Web of Caves

as The Doctor

The Kidnappers

as Mark

The Pitch of Fear

as Mr. Borusa

This Morning with Richard Not Judy

77

TV show

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Rev Giles Shawcross

PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne

Writer

PROBE: Unnatural Selection

as Mr. Emerson

PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne

as Georgie

Highgate House of Horror

as Mr Banham

PROBE: The Zero Imperative

as Dr. William Bruffin

The Dwelling Place

70

TV show · as Bowmer

1980s

1 title · average score 84

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Leonard Boynton

1970s

1 title · average score 75

A Ghost Story for Christmas

75

TV show · as Radio Presenter (Voice)