Alexander Armstrong (comedian) - Dramas and Sitcoms

Dramas and Sitcoms

Armstrong co-starred with Caroline Quentin on all three series of ITV1 drama Life Begins. He appeared in Saxondale (Series 1 Episode 2) in 2006, as a famous motoring presenter. He appeared as David Cameron in the satirical fictional documentary The Trial of Tony Blair, played a middle aged man who leaves his wife during a mid-life crisis in Maggie Mae and a sex-addicted guest in Hotel Babylon in 2007. He voices Mr Smith, an alien computer, in The Sarah Jane Adventures and in the Doctor Who episodes "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End".

He appeared in the 2008 BBC comedy drama Mutual Friends. In 2006 (repeated in 2007), he was a guest on Private Passions BBC Radio 3. He appeared as an advocate on Visionaries for BBC World News broadcast on 6 September 2008. In April 2009, he played a school sports instructor on the Sky1 TV movie Skellig. In October 2009, he played Clive Sinclair in a docu-drama about Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Research, and Chris Curry, the co-founder of Acorn Computers, called Micro Men. He had a role in the second series of Reggie Perrin.

In December 2011, Armstrong starred in the Doctor Who Christmas Special, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. In January 2012, he played "David Bullingdon MP" (a parody of David Cameron) in Hacks, a television satire based on the News International phone hacking scandal.