All three of these films have been released on DVD. Other films he has appeared in include The Gathering (2003) and The Brothers Grimm (2005).Ĭrook has starred in three of Tim Plester and Ben Gregor's short films: as Gary Tibbs in Ant Muzak (2002), as Servalan in Blake's Junction 7 (2004), and as Glorious George in World of Wrestling (2006). In 2010 he provided a voice over in an advertisement for the electrical retailer Currys.Ĭrook also appeared as Launcelot Gobbo in Michael Radford's 2004 film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and had a minor role in the 2004 film Finding Neverland as a theatre usher. He has also featured as himself in adverts for MTV, Film Four and as a voiceover artiste for motor insurance company Green Flag in 2007. He has appeared in adverts as the character for Visa and M&M's. Neither Crook nor Arenberg appeared in the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Ĭrook was featured in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) as Ragetti, a pirate with a comically ill-fitting wooden false eye, who is teamed with Pintel ( Lee Arenberg). Written originally for a larger, thuggish actor, Crook won the role and by the end of the series in 2003 had earned two BAFTA nominations.
In 2001, he auditioned for the role of Gareth Keenan in Ricky Gervais/ Stephen Merchant popular mockumentary The Office. The show made by Channel X for ITV1 had Charlie Cheese interviewing various celebrities about their latest live tour, book, album or film release. In late 1999 he hosted the short-lived ITV1 show Comedy Café in the guise of his Charlie Cheese character. He was later a member of the main cast of the BBC sketch show TV to Go in 2001. He was offered his first major television role as a comedy sketch contributor on Channel 4's The Eleven O'Clock Show in 1998, from which Crook was later dropped. One of Crook's earliest television appearances was in the 1998 Channel 4 sketch show Barking, as a grotesque schoolteacher called Mr Bagshaw who is said to be based on a variety of obnoxious, overbearing science teachers he was taught by while in school. In the summers, he spent time at his uncle's tobacco farm in northern Zimbabwe, where he developed his love for painting. He attended Wilmington Grammar School for Boys. As a child he received a course of hormone therapy for three years to treat a growth hormone deficiency. He is the son of Michael Crook, a British Airways employee, and Sheila Crook, a hospital manager.
Crook was born in Maidstone, Kent, and grew up in Dartford, Kent.
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