Mark Heap

Acting · Born 1957-05-13 · Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India

Biography

Mark Heap is an acclaimed British actor and comedian, best known for his portrayal of eccentric and neurotic characters in several iconic UK sitcoms. He is widely recognized for his roles as the bizarre neighbor Jim Bell in Friday Night Dinner and the arrogant Dr. Alan Statham in Green Wing.

Known for

• The Magic Faraway Tree (2026)
• Time Travel Is Dangerous! (2025)
• The School for Good and Evil (2022)
• Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
• Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel (2021)
• The Lost Films of Bloody Nora (2019)
• Killer Weekend (2018)
• The Midnight Gang (2018)
• Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes (2017)
• Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017)
• The Comedian's Guide to Survival (2016)
• Maigret's Dead Man (2016)
• We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story (2015)
• The Last Post (2015)
• The World's End (2013)
• All Stars (2013)
• The Sick Party (2012)
• Is This a Joke? (2011)
• Holy Flying Circus (2011)
• Lizzie and Sarah (2010)
• Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth (2008)
• Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
• Stardust (2007)
• Green Wing Special (2007)