Born in Merseyside, Liverpool England in the Cantril Farm estate now Stockbridge Village. Craig has risen from cult TV status in Red Dwarf to Coronation Street Via Robot wars, Takeshi's Castle and Saturday live as everyone’s favourite Liverpudlian. As an actor, DJ, stand up comedian, author, poet, radio and television presenter Craig’s been and done it all. Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1987 Business As Usual 1987 The Marksman McFadden 1987 Night Network Self 1988–99 Red Dwarf Dave Lister 1988 Craig Goes Mad In Melbourne Self 1989 What's That Noise Self 1991 Comic Relief Dave Lister 1991 Them And Us Self 1992 Ghostwatch Self 1993 Cyberpunks And Technophobes Self 1993 CyberZone Host 1993 Prince Cinders Cat (voice) 1993 CyberZone Host 1994 Asterix Conquers America Asterix (voice) English language version 1994 Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups Dave Lister Video Release (archive footage) 1995 Red Dwarf: Smeg Outs Dave Lister Video Release (new and archive footage) 1995 The Bill Martin Bailey 1995 The Governor Eugene Buffy 1996 Cyberspace 1997 Captain Butler Captain Butler 1997 Space Cadets Space Captain 1997 Funky Bunker Self 1998 Universe Challenge Self One-off special edition of University Challenge 1998 Can't Smeg, Won't Smeg Dave Lister One-off special edition of BBC2's Can't Cook, Won't Cook 1998–2004 Robot Wars Host After replacing Jeremy Clarkson 1999 Ripley's Believe It or Not! Host UK Presenter 1999 The Colour Of Funny Keith Dennis 2000 Jailbreak Host 2001 Top Ten TV Sci-Fi Self 2001 Don't Walk Narrator (voice) 2002 EastEnders: Ricky And Bianca Vince EastEnders spin-off drama 2002–04 Takeshi's Castle Narrator UK version 2003 Ten Minutes Mark 2003 The Sitcom Story Self 2003 Sushi TV Narrator UK version, after replacing Julian Clary 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom Self 2004–05 Dream Team Agent 2005 Forty Years Of Fuck Self 2005 The Games Self Series 3 2005–06, 2007–present Coronation Street Lloyd Mullaney 2006 Fated Pedro 2007 Clubbing to Death Begsley 2009 Red Dwarf: Back to Earth Dave Lister Bibliography 1993 Craig Charles Almanac of Total Knowledge by Craig Charles and Russell Bell (Penguin Books Ltd) 1997 The Log by Craig Charles and Russell Bell (Penguin Books Ltd) 1998 No Other Blue by Craig Charles and Philippa Drakeford (Penguin Books Ltd) Autobiographies 2000 No Irish, No N*ggers (Penguin Books Ltd) 2008 On the Rocks (Hodder Headline) Quote from Red Dwarf: VII Ep 1 "They killed us & destroyed everthing onboard ship including the time drive which meant there was no time drive for them to have in the future to bring back into to the past to destroy the future of their past selves in the present, put simply by killing us they killed themselves because once we were dead it was imposible for us to become them in the future and return in time to kill ourselves in the past even though it was the present." Booking agent [email protected] or [email protected] As an actor, DJ, stand up comedian, author, poet, radio and television presenter Craig’s doing it all.