List of characters in Blackadder

This article lists the characters (and the actors who played them) in the four series and three special episodes of the British sitcom "Blackadder".

"Blackadder" was notable for featuring many repeating characters and actors, particularly Rowan Atkinson as the eponymous protagonist, Edmund Blackadder, and Tony Robinson as his sidekick Baldrick (who both appeared in all versions), together with numerous other actors in one-off parts.

(Numbers in brackets indicate series and episode - eg 3:1 Series 3, Episode 1. A single number means the whole of that series.)

All series

* Edmund Blackadder: (Rowan Atkinson)
* Baldrick: (Tony Robinson)

Descendants

Some characters recurred as their own presumed descendants and ancestors:
*Melchett - Stephen Fry
**mild-mannered Lord Melchett (a sort of William Cecil character), an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, (2)
**General Melchett, a blustering buffoon and presumed descendant of Lord Melchett, (4)
**Bishop Flavius Melchett (in 1999) / General Melcheus (in Roman Britain)- "Blackadder Back and Forth"
*Lord Percy Percy - Tim McInnerny
**first and second series
*Darling - Tim McInnerny
**Kevin Darling, (4)
**Archdeacon Darling (in 1999); Duke of Darling (British general at the Battle of Waterloo)/ Duc de Darling (French general at the same battle) - "Blackadder Back and Forth"
*George (not explicitly related) - Hugh Laurie
**Prince George, (3)
**Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh, (4)
*Bob - Gabrielle Glaister - an attractive girl who poses as a man called Bob, before revealing her true gender and becoming romantically involved with Flashheart (2 and 4)
*Lord Flashheart - Rik Mayall, a vulgar yet successful rival of Blackadder (2 and 4)
**a decidedly Flashheart-like Robin Hood in "Back and Forth".

Recurring actors

*Stephen Fry also played Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in the final episode of the third series, and Lord Frondo; King Charles I;
*Tim McInnerny also played The Scarlet Pimpernel (Alias Lord Topper), Le Comte De Frou-Frou (3:3)
*Hugh Laurie also played Simon "Farters Parters" Partridge (a.k.a. Mr Ostrich) (2:5), and Prince Ludwig the Indestructible (2:6)
*Miranda Richardson played Queen Elizabeth I (2), Miss Amy Hardwood (aka The Shadow) (3:5) and dutiful Nurse Mary Fletcher-Brown in "General Hospital" (4:5)
* George de Beouf; Gaoler Ploppy; General Sir Bernard Proudfoot-Smith (Bill Wallis)

Recurring guest stars

* Samuel Johnson (3:2); the spirit of Christmas (Robbie Coltrane)
* Mr. Hardwood (3:5), Oliver Cromwell (Warren Clarke)
* Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain (1:4), Lady Whiteadder (2:5), Victoria of the United Kingdom (Miriam Margolyes)
* Interpreter, Prince Albert (Jim Broadbent)

Non-recurring major characters

*Patsy Byrne received huge plaudits for her crucial role as Nursie in all six episodes of Blackadder II but never featured in either of the subsequent series, either as a regular character or one-off. Her only future roles in Blackadder were in Blackadder Back and Forth and Blackadder's Christmas Carol, when she briefly reprised Nursie during scenes set in the Blackadder II era and then in Carol's Christmas future scenes, also playing a member of the "triple husbandoid" to Queen Asphyxia, credited as 'Bernard' (though not named in the special this was the name Nursie clamed to have been born under in Series II).
*Similarly, Helen Atkinson-Wood was a welcome addition to the cast for the role of Mrs Miggins in all six episodes of Blackadder the Third, but did not appear again in the programme.

Other, by series

:main|List of minor Blackadder characters

1

* King Richard IV of England (Brian Blessed)
* Queen Gertrude of Flanders (Elspet Gray)
* Harry, Prince of Wales (Robert East)
* Richard III (Peter Cook)
* Witchsmeller Pursuivant (Frank Finlay)
* Princess Leia of Hungary (Natasha King)

2

* Wise woman of Putney heath (Barbara Miller)
* Mad Beggar, Minstrel (Tom Aitken)
* Mollie (Cassie Stuart)
* Mrs. Ploppy (Linda Polan)
* Captain Redbeard Rum (Tom Baker)
* Sir Walter Raleigh (Simon Jones)
* Lord Whiteadder (Daniel Thorndike)

3

* Sir Talbot Buxomly (Denis Lill)
*Episode 1
** Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne)
** Pitt the even Younger (Dominic Martelli)
** Vincent Hanna's own great-great-great-grandfather
** Ivor "Jest Ye Not Madam" Biggun (Geoffrey McGivern)
*Episode 3
**Lord Smedley and "Madame Guillotine" (Nigel Planer)
** Evil Revolutionary (Chris Barrie)
*Episode 4
** Keanrick (an actor in Sense and Senility) (Hugh Paddick)
** Mossop (another actor in Sense and Senility) (Kenneth Connor)
* An Anarchist (Ben Elton)
*Episode 6
** King George III of England (Gertan Klauber)

4

* Baron von Richthofen a.k.a. Red Baron (Adrian Edmondson) (4:4)
* Firing squad - Sergeant Jones and Privates Fraser, Robinson and Tipplewick (Stephen Frost, Lee Cornes, Paul-Mark Elliott, Jeremy Gittins) (4:2)

pecials