Happy Birthday Mr Bean DVD 2010 20 years of Mr. Bean / The Restaurant, Birthday bear, The Disco, Dinner for two, The funfair, The Restaurant / Directed by John Howard Davies, John Birkin, Paul Weiland / Starring: Rowan Atkinson

UPC 5050582802559

MADE IN EU

REGION 2,4,5 PAL DVD

Audio: English 2.0

Subtitles: English SDH, French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Turkish 

Total Runtime: 68 minutes + extras

English Summary:

A collection of five birthday-themed excerpts, taken from both the original and animated series of Rowan Atkinson's slapstick comedy, released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the series.

Episodes on DISC

Happy Birthday Mr. Bean 

Contains Episodes: "The Restaurant" from "The Return of Mr. Bean",

"Birthday Bear" (Animated Episode),

"The Disco" from "Mr. Bean Goes to Town",

"Dinner for Two" (Animated Episode),

"The FunFair" from "Mind the Baby,

Mr. Bean", "The Restaurant" (Animated Episode).

The character of Mr. Bean was developed while Rowan Atkinson was studying for his master's degree in electrical engineering at The Queen's College, Oxford. A sketch featuring Bean was shown at the Edinburgh Fringe in the early 1980s. A similar character called Robert Box, also played by Atkinson, appeared in the one-off 1979 ITV sitcom Canned Laughter which also featured routines used in the motion picture in 1997.

One of Bean's earliest appearances occurred at the "Just for Laughs" comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1987. When programme coordinators were scheduling him into the festival programme, Atkinson insisted that he perform on the French-speaking bill rather than the English-speaking programme. Having no French dialogue in his act at all, programme coordinators could not understand why Atkinson wanted to perform on the French bill instead. As it turned out, Atkinson's act at the festival was a test platform for his character and he wanted to see how his character's physical comedy would fare on an international stage with a non-English speaking audience

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995). Atkinson first came to prominence in the BBC sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982), receiving the 1981 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance, and via his participation in The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979). His other work includes the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), playing a bumbling vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), voicing the red-billed hornbill Zazu in The Lion King (1994), and playing jewellery salesman Rufus in Love Actually (2003). Atkinson also featured in the BBC sitcom The Thin Blue Line (1995–1996). His work in theatre includes the 2009 West End revival of the musical Oliver!.