Hugh Bonneville appeared in the ITV period drama "Downton Abbey", as Robert, Earl of Grantham. In early 2010, he appeared in the comedy film "Burke and Hare". In 2011 and 2012, he starred as Ian Fletcher in the award-winning BBC comedy series "Twenty Twelve", and reprised the role in the 2014 BBC comedy series "W1A". In December 2012, he appeared on BBC Two with co-star Jessica Hynes in "World's Most Dangerous Roads", travelling through Georgia. He also appeared in the much-delayed film "Hippie Hippie Shake" with Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller. From 2011 until 2014, Bonneville was the narrator of the Channel
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story is a 2008 British BBC Television drama written by Amanda Coe. Set in the 1960s, it recounts the initial campaigning activities of the British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse. Julie Walters plays the part of Whitehouse, Alun Armstrong her husband Ernest, and Hugh Bonneville plays Sir Hugh Greene, the Director-General of the BBC, who is taken as embodying the liberalizing forces of the "permissive society" against which Whitehouse campaigned. It was broadcast on 28 May 2008 on BBC Two, aired in the United States on 16 November 2008 as part of