The real king!

And my favourite.

And still has a master's degree in electrical engineering.

Rowan Atkinson to himself when he got rejected: "I have a cunning plan". Edit: as I thought and have just looked up to confirm, he starred and wrote loads of stuff before Mr Bean including Blackadder (referenced previously) and before that Not the Nine O Clock News amongst others

Mr Bean actually started off as a set of "what not to do" training videos. Rowan Atkinson was already a very successful actor before he became Mr Bean.