List of fictional prime ministers of the United Kingdom
The portrayals of fictional prime ministers of the United Kingdom have been either completely fictional figures, or composite figures based on real-life people, or real-life figures who have never been prime minister other than in fiction.
List of fictional prime ministers[]
Real people on this list are marked:
Prime Minister | Work | Medium | Year(s) | Actor | Notes | Ref. |
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David | Love Actually | Film | 2003 | Hugh Grant | [1][2][3][4][5] | |
Atwood | SAS: Red Notice | Film | 2021 | Ray Panthaki | ||
Alan B'Stard | The New Statesman | Television | 1992 | Rik Mayall | In the final episode "The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard", he became an extra-parliamentary Prime Minister as he did not contest a seat during the general election called over British membership of the European Economic Community. When his deputy leader Paddy O'Rourke suggested that he rather than B'Stard would become Prime Minister as a result, B'Stard briefly considered adopting the title of Lord Protector as a workaround. | [1][2] |
Baldrick | Blackadder: Back & Forth | Short film | 1999 | Tony Robinson | After accidentally constructing a working time machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci so that his master Lord Blackadder could win £30,000 in a New Year's prank-cum-bet, Baldrick became the puppet Prime Minister to Edmund III of the United Kingdom after they used the time machine to manipulate history for their benefit. | [1][6] |
Lord Beaverbrook | Dominion | Novel | 2012 | [7] | ||
Lord Bellinger | The Adventure of the Second Stain | Short story | 1904 | Collected in The Return of Sherlock Holmes | [8] | |
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Film | 1922 | Cecil Ward | Episode: "The Second Stain" | [9] | |
Sherlock Holmes | Television | 1951 | J. Leslie Frith | Episode: "The Second Stain" | [10] | |
Sherlock Holmes | Television | 1968 | Cecil Parker | Episode: "The Second Stain" | [11] | |
The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Television | 1986 | Harry Andrews | Episode: "The Second Stain" | [12] | |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | The Difference Engine | Novel | 1990 | Succeeds Lord Byron | [13] | |
Lord Byron | The Difference Engine | Novel | 1990 | Dies in office | [13] | |
Michael Callow | Black Mirror | Television | 2011 | Rory Kinnear | Episode: "The National Anthem" | [1][2][4] |
Mortimer Chris | Whoops Apocalypse | Film | 1986 | Peter Cook | [3][5] | |
Gladraeli Clampvulture | Bleak Expectations | Radio | 2012 | Geoffrey Whitehead | In the Series 5 finale "A Loved-Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated", he refused to assist Pip Bin in foiling Mr Benevolent's plan to destroy the universe until learning that doing so would be a 'huge vote winner'. He dies after an enraged Pip throws him into Benevolent's Universe Destroying Device. | [6] |
Leighton Clarkson | London Has Fallen | Film | 2016 | Guy Williams | [14] | |
Adam Cornwell | Red Election | Television | 2021 | James D'Arcy | [15] | |
Mr Daubeny | Phineas Redux | Novel | 1873 | [16][17] | ||
Alastair Davies | 24: Live Another Day | Television | 2014 | Stephen Fry | Composite of David Cameron and Boris Johnson | [1][2] |
Tom Dawkins | Secret State | Television | 2012 | Gabriel Byrne | Formerly the Deputy Prime Minister to Charles Flyte, he succeeded Flyte after his death in a plane crash. After discovering a plot to engineer a war against Iran, he calls a vote of no confidence against his own government. | [18] |
Hector d'Estrange | Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900 | Novel | 1890 | Character is a pseudonym of Gloria De Lara | [19][20] | |
Tristan Evans | King Charles III | Film | 2017 | Adam James | [21] | |
Endymion Ferrars | Endymion | Novel | 1880 | [22] | ||
John Finnemore | John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme | Radio | 2012 | John Finnemore | During the series' Edinburgh Fringe special, one sketch saw Finnemore, who liked cats and dogs equally, installed as a puppet Prime Minister leading a uneasy coalition government to end a civil war between cat-owners and dog-owners. | |
Charles Flyte | Secret State | Television | 2012 | Tobias Menzies | ||
Brian Green | Torchwood: Children of Earth | Television | 2009 | Nicholas Farrell | [23] | |
Mr Gresham | Phineas Redux | Novel | 1873 | [16] | ||
Jim Hacker | Yes, Prime Minister | Television | 1986–1988 | Paul Eddington | Previously the Minister for Administrative Affairs and the Chairman of his (unidentified) party, Hacker became Prime Minister in Party Games after the surprise retirement of his predecessor. Hacker positioned himself as a compromise candidate after learning that the Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer (the likely successors following the Home Secretary's resignation due to drunk-driving) were seriously compromised. | [1][4][6] |
Yes, Prime Minister | Television | 2013 | David Haig | [24] | ||
Lord Halifax | The Afrika Reich | Novel | 2011 | [25] | ||
Dominion | Novel | 2012 | [26] | |||
The Madagaskar Plan | Novel | 2015 | [27] | |||
John Hatcher | Doomsday | Film | 2008 | Alexander Siddig | [28] | |
James Jaspers | Comics | Character in Marvel Universe | [6] | |||
Harriet Jones | Doctor Who | Television | 2005 | Penelope Wilton | Episode: "The Christmas Invasion" | [1][6][2] |
Adam Lang | The Ghost Writer | Film | 2010 | Pierce Brosnan | Based on Tony Blair | [2][3] |
Charlie Lynton | In the Presence of Mine Enemies | Novel | 2003 | Based on Tony Blair | ||
Arthur Lytton | Seven Days to Noon | Film | 1950 | Ronald Adam | [14][5] | |
David MacAdam | The Kidnapped Prime Minister | Short story | 1923 | Collected in Poirot Investigates | [29] | |
Oswald Mosley | The Leader | Novel | 2003 | [30] | ||
Duke of Omnium | The Prime Minister | Novel | 1876 | [31] | ||
Gwen Oxlade | Henry IX | Television | 2017 | Pippa Haywood | [32] | |
Jo Patterson | Doctor Who | Television | 2021 | Harriet Walter | Episode: "Revolution of the Daleks" | [33] |
Harry Perkins | A Very British Coup | Novel | 1982 | [6] | ||
A Very British Coup | Television | 1988 | Ray McAnally | [34] | ||
Mrs Plumber | The Third World War | Novel | 1978 | Based on Margaret Thatcher | [35][36] | |
Kevin Pork | Whoops Apocalypse | Television | 1982 | Peter Jones | ||
Rosamund Jane Pritchard | The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | Television | 2006 | Jane Horrocks | [2][34] | |
Michael Rimmer | The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | Film | 1970 | Peter Cook | [37] | |
Vivienne Rook | Years and Years | Television | 2019 | Emma Thompson | [38] | |
Harold Saxon | Doctor Who | Television | 2007 | John Simm | Episode: "The Sound of Drums" | [1] |
Sackville Somerset | The Adventure of the Lost Holiday | Short story | 1945 | Collected in "In Re: Sherlock Holmes"—The Adventures of Solar Pons | ||
Peter St John | Zenith | Comics | 1987–2000 | [6] | ||
Michael Stevens | Little Britain | Television | 2003 | Anthony Head | [6][4] | |
Reginald Stevens | No Love for Johnnie | Novel | 1959 | [6] | ||
No Love for Johnnie | Film | 1961 | Geoffrey Keen | [6] | ||
Robert Sutherland | Cobra | Television | 2020 | Robert Carlyle | [39] | |
Adam Sutler | V for Vendetta | Film | 2006 | John Hurt | [3] | |
Henry Tobin | Party's Over | Radio | 2019 | Miles Jupp | Depicted as the former Prime Minister, the series is set in the aftermath of his disastrous eight-month-long premiership which ended after a landslide defeat and the loss of his own seat in a snap general election. | [40] |
Francis Urquhart | To Play the King | Novel | 1993 | [41] | ||
To Play the King | Television | 1993 | Ian Richardson | [41] | ||
The Final Cut | Novel | 1995 | [41] | |||
The Final Cut | Television | 1995 | Ian Richardson | [41] | ||
John Vosler | Bodyguard | Television | 2018 | David Westhead | [14] | |
Sidney Wilton | Endymion | Novel | 1880 | [42] | ||
Unnamed | Lifeforce | Film | 1985 | Peter Porteous | [5] | |
Unnamed | North Sea Hijack | Film | 1980 | Faith Brook | [5] | |
Unnamed | The Tunnel | Film | 1935 | George Arliss | [5] | |
Unnamed | SS-GB | Novel | 1978 | Puppet Prime Minister controlled by the Nazis. | ||
Unnamed | Stormbreaker | Novel | 2000 | [43] | ||
Unnamed | Stormbreaker | Film | 2006 | Robbie Coltrane | [5] | |
Unnamed | Percy's Progress | Film | 1974 | Harry H. Corbett | [5] | |
Unnamed | Carry On Emmannuelle | Film | 1978 | Robert Dorning | [5] | |
Unnamed | Random Harvest | Film | 1942 | Edward Fielding | [5] | |
Unnamed | Heavens Above! | Film | 1963 | Colin Gordon | [5] | |
Unnamed | Water | Film | 1985 | Maureen Lipman | [5] | |
Unnamed | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | Film | 2015 | Tom Hollander | ||
Unnamed | Pixels | Film | 2015 | Fiona Shaw | ||
Unnamed | Mr Stink | Novel | 2009 | [44] | ||
Dave | Mr Stink | TV Film | 2012 | David Walliams | David Walliams is the author of the original novel. | [45] |
Unnamed | Damage | Film | 1992 | Tony Doyle | [5] | |
Unnamed | Poirot | Television | 1990 | Henry Moxon | Episode: "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" | [46] |
Unnamed | ICE | TV Film | 2011 | Simon Callow | [47] |
See also[]
- List of fictional political parties
- List of fictional presidents of the United States
- List of fictional British monarchs
- List of fictional Australian politicians
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