didn't know about the novels. Think I'll head to Chapters today and pick them up. He was in another comedy sketch show with Stephen Fry...Worster and Jeeves. In Black Adder, wasn't he the Scarlet Pimpernel? or was he after the Scarlet Pimpernel?
No. In the episode that the Scarlet Pimpernel appeared (Nob and Nobility, 1987), the one in which the disgusting Baldrick (played by amateur historian, Time Team presenter and Labour Party activist Sir Tony Robinson) wore a false boil on his face "in admiration for the great Pimple and his brilliant disguises" but which didn't impress the Francophobic Blackadder, Laurie played
George, the Prince Regent (the future King George IV; George III's son and Queen Victoria's uncle). He played Prince George in all the episodes of Blackadder The Third (1987), which was set during the Regency Period. He also played Prince George in the 1988 Christmas special Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
Blackadder Season 03 Episode 03 - Nob and Nobility - Dailymotion-Video
In an episode of Blackadder II (1986), which was set in Elizabethan England, he played
Simon Partridge, one of Blackadder's friends who came over to Blackadder's place for a binge-drinking session at a rather inopportune time - a time when Blackadder's Puritan anti-alcohol aunt (played by Miriam Margoyles) also came to visit, and Blackadder was desperate for her to give him his inheritance money (naturally, with all that was going on, he failed miserably in this endeavour).
In another episode of Blackadder II Laurie played the baddie, the evil German
Prince Ludwig the Indestructible, who imprisons Blackadder and Lord Melchett (played by Laurie's comedy partner, and now QI presenter, Stephen Fry) in a dungeon.
In Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), set in the trenches of a WWI battlefield, he plays
Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh.
In Blackadder: Back and Forth (1999), a one-off episode, he played two characters:
Viscount George Bufton-Tufton and
Consul Georgius, a Roman stationed with Centurion Blaccadius and Legionary Baldricus on Hadrian's Wall when they come under attack from a "large orange hedge" moving towards them, which turns out to be a load of Scots.