Richard Hammond

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Dec 19, 1969 (55 years old)

Richard Hammond

Known For

The Not Very Grand Tour: The Glory and The Power
1h 0m
Movie 2025

The Not Very Grand Tour: The Glory and The Power

Richard Hammond and James May celebrate the glory of the internal combustion engine and look back at racing muscle cars in Detroit.

The Not Very Grand Tour
TV Show 2025

The Not Very Grand Tour

Richard Hammond and James May look back at nostalgic clips of The Grand Tour.

Richard Hammond's Crazy Contraptions
TV Show 2022

Richard Hammond's Crazy Contraptions

Teams compete to build ingenious machines out of everyday objects in TV's most leftfield engineering show.

Contraption Masters
TV Show 2022

Contraption Masters

Engineering enthusiasts battle to create the most ingenious contraption using everyday objects. Teams are challenged to fabricate and demonstrate a new chain reaction machine before being judged on their ingenuity, design, and workmanship.

Richard Hammond's Brain Reaction
TV Show 2022

Richard Hammond's Brain Reaction

Richard Hamond's Brain Reaction is a brand new comedy science panel show. Richard hosts, ably assisted by comedian and science geek Ria Lina. Captaining the teams are Victoria Coren Mitchell and Johnny Vegas. Each week, they battle it out over a series of bizarre conundrums that pit random things against arbitrary stuff. Ever wondered what's more powerful, a rugby player or a fireman's hose, or what's fastest, a Slinky going down a flight of stairs or a student downing a pint, upside down? It's anyone's game - an astrophysicist has as much chance of getting the answer right as your grandmother

Richard Hammond's Workshop
TV Show 2021

Richard Hammond's Workshop

Richard Hammond trades his jet-setting lifestyle for a long-standing dream to set up a classic car restoration workshop close to his home in Herefordshire. With the help of skilled craftsmen, he navigates the ups and downs of building a new business.

Top Gear: A Tribute to Sabine Schmitz
0h 30m
Movie 2021

Top Gear: A Tribute to Sabine Schmitz

Top Gear will pay tribute to Queen of the Nürburgring Sabine Schmitz, who died last month aged 51, with a half-hour special reuniting current and former Top Gear hosts and guests.

The Great Escapists
0h 47m
TV Show 2021

The Great Escapists

Shipwrecked on a remote desert island, Hammond and Belleci use their engineering and scientific skills to not only to survive, but to construct a paradise island playground.

Richard Hammond's Big
0h 43m
TV Show 2020

Richard Hammond's Big

Richard Hammond embarks on a global adventure to explore the world’s biggest structures and machines and discover how engineers build, maintain and use them.

Top Gear: Winter Blunderland
2h 7m
Movie 2018

Top Gear: Winter Blunderland

Oh, the weather outside is frightful... so get out there and start doing some stupid stuff in cars. Yes, whether it's racing a rally car against a bobsleigh, playing ice hockey with tiny Suzukis, or seeing if a Ferrari can get you from Britain to the ski slopes quicker than a plane, Top Gear has always been at the cutting edge of cold-weather, car-based messing about. Can a combine harvester be turned into a snow plough? What happens if you ski-jump a rocket-powered Mini? Does a Jaguar estate make a good ski lift? This collection sees Jeremy, James and Richard - a trio well versed in trading on thin ice - answering these vital questions, and more besides. Uniting, for the first time, some of the best Top Gear winter adventures, it's a snowy, slippery celebration of all things sub-zero. When the temperature plummets, the fun begins...

Biography

Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English presenter, writer, and journalist. He is most noted for co-hosting the car programme Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and James May, as well as presenting series 1–4 of Brainiac: Science Abuse on Sky1. He also co-hosted Total Wipeout with Amanda Byram on BBC One. Hammond presented Planet Earth Live alongside Julia Bradbury.

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