2.
I do hereby thank our subject teacher Mr.Soumya
Bera and our H.O.D for HU dept.
Mrs. Nira Konar.
I also thank my group mates :
Anindita Khatua
Sayon Mukherjee
Anamika Dey
Tanmoy Dalal
for co-operating with me to complete this
presentation successfully within given time.
3. THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE VERY BROAD HEARTED
HUMAN BEING ROWAN ATKINSON POULARLY
KNOWN AS
MR.BEAN.
HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR H IS
BODY ACTING
WE WOULD LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM FROM
THIS
PRESENTATION .
4. • CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. EARLY LIFE & EDUCATION
3. BEAN IN TELIVISION
4. BEAN IN FILM
5. BEAN AS A COMEDIAN
6. PERSONAL LIFE
7. RETIREMENT OF BEAN
8. CONCLUSION
9. BIBLIOGRAPHY
5. INTRODUCTION
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January
1955) is an English actor, comedian, and
screenwriter who is best known for his work on
the sitcoms Mr. Bean and Blackadder. Atkinson
first came to prominence in the sketch comedy
show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–82),
and via his participation in The Secret
Policeman's Balls from 1979. His other work
includes the sitcom The Thin Blue Line (1995–
96).
He has been listed in The Observer as one of
the 50 funniest actors in British comedy and
amongst the top 50 comedians ever, in a 2005
poll of fellow comedians.He has also had
6. EARLY LIFE & EDUCATION
Atkinson , the youngest of four brothers, was born
in Conset t, County Durham, England .
His parents were Eric Atkinson , a farmer and
company director, and Ella May (née Bainbridge),
who married on 29 June 1945.His three older brothers
were Paul, who died as an infant, Rodney, a Euro sceptic
economist who narrowly lost the United
Kingdom Independence Party leadership
election in 2000, and Rupert .Atkinson was brought
up Anglican, and was educated at Durham Choristers
School, St. Bees School, and Newcastle University. In
1975, he continued for the degree of M.Sc in
Electrical Engineering at The Queen's
College.
First winning national attention in the Oxford Revue at
the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 1976.
7. BEAN IN TELEVISION
Rowan Atkinson
in 1997,
promoting Bean After university,
Atkinson toured with Angus Deayton
as his straight man in an act that was
eventually filmed for a television show .
Atkinson then went on to do Not the
Nine O'Clock News for the BBC,
produced by his friend John Lloyd.
The success of No t the Nine O'Clock
News led to him taking the lead role in
the medieval sitcom
Atkinson 's other creation, the hapless
Mr. Bean, first appeared on New Years
Day in 1990 in a half-hour special for
Thames Television.
8. BEAN IN FILM
o Atkinson’s film career
began with a supporting
part in the 'unofficial' James
Bond movie Never Say
Never Again (1983) and a
leading role in Dead on
Time (also 1983) with Nigel
Hawthorne.
o His television character Mr.
Bean debuted on the big
screen with Bean (1997) to
international success. A
sequel, Mr. Bean's Holiday
(2007) also became an
9. He appeared in Mel Smith's directorial debut The Tall
Guy (1989) and appeared alongside Anjelica Huston
and Mai Zetterling in Roald Dahl's The Witches
(1990). He played the part of Dexter Hayman in Hot
Shots! Part Deux (1993), a parody of Rambo III,
starring Charlie Sheen.
Atkinson gained further recognition with his turn as
a verbally bumbling vicar in Four Weddings and a
Funeral (1994) and featured in Disney's The Lion King
(also 1994) as the voice of Zazu the Red-billed
Hornbill.
Atkinson continued to appear in supporting roles in
comedies, including Rat Race (2001), Scooby-Doo
(2002), Love Actually (2003) and the crime comedy
Keeping Mum (2005), which also starred Kristin Scott
Thomas, Maggie Smith and Patrick Swayze.
10. BEAN AS A COMEDIAN
Comedic style Best known for his use of physical comedy
in his Mr. Bean persona, Atkinson's other characters rely
more heavily on language.
One of his better-known comic devices is over-articulation
of the "B" sound, such as his pronunciation of "Bob" in the
Black adder II episode "Bells".
Atkinson's often visually based style, which has been
compared to that of Buster Keaton, sets him apart from
most modern television and film comedies, which rely
11. Atkinson often plays authority
figures (especially priests or
vicars) speaking absurd lines with a
completely deadpan delivery.
Atkinson suffers from stuttering,
and the over-articulation is a
technique to overcome problematic
12. This talent for visual
comedy has led to Atkinson
being called "the man with
the rubber face": comedic
reference was made to this
in an episode of Black adder
the Third ("Sense and
Senility"), in which Baldrick
(Tony Robinson) refers to
his master, Mr. E. Black
13. PERSONAL LIFE
Rowan Atkinson first met Sunetra Sastry in the
late 1980s, when she was working as a make-up
artist with the BBC.
Atkinson came to him one day and asked if he
could swap make-up artists because he wanted
to ask Sastry out, 'all idea of [his] asking out
Sunetra left [him]'.Fry was best man at
Atkinson's wedding in 1990. Atkinson was
formerly in a relationship with actress Leslie
Ash.
14. RETIREMENT OF MR.BEAN
In November 2012 it emerged that
the character of Mr. Bean will not
be performed again. "The stuff that
has been most commercially
successful for me – basically quite
physical, quite childish – I
increasingly feel I'm going to do a
lot less of," Atkinson told in The
TELEGRAPH Review.
“Apart from the fact that your
physical ability starts to decline, I
also think someone in their 50s
being childlike becomes a little sad.
You've got to be careful.”
15. THIS WAS OUR PROJECT ABOUT MR.BEAN TO
SALUTE THE GRETEST EVERGREN PERSONALITY.
WE HAVE SEEN THE EVERGREEN PERSONALITY
INTO A WORLD OF CINEMA AND TILED UP HIS
NAME,FAME ALONG WITH SHOWING HIS
VARIOUS SKILLS IN THE CARRIER.
BY GOING IN RESEARCH ABOUT MR.BEAN WE HAVE
GAINED A NAME OF MR.ROWAN ATKINSON AND
WIIL BE GREATFULL TO SHARE IT WITH YOU .
ALL IS THAT “CHILD IN A GROWN MAN’S BODY.”
