Nigel Planer
Biography
Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953) is a British actor, comedian, musician, novelist and playwright. He played Neil in the BBC comedy The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Personal Details
Movies (28)
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
as Self
2024
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self
2023
The Rise of the Comic Strip
as Self
2023
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
as Nun Wolf
2022
Jeepers Creepers
as American Reporter (voice)
2020
Completely Bad News
as Den Dennis
2019
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
Ratburger
as Headmaster
2017
Sleigh
as Gerald
2017
Burn Burn Burn
as Henry
2016
Red Top
as Rupert Murdoch
2016
From Andy Pandy To Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
as Narrator
2015
The List
as Ted Rove
2013
I Give It a Year
as Brian
2013
Five Go to Rehab
as Barmaid/Inspector
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
The Hunt for Tony Blair
as Peter Mandelson
2011
Heavy Metal Britannia
as Self
2010
How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
as Nicholas Craig
2009
Prog Rock Britannia
as Narrator
2009
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2008
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
as Self
2007
Hogfather
as Mr. Sideney
2007
Flood
as Keith Hopkins
2007
How To Be Eighteenth Century
as Nicholas Craig
2006
Sex Actually
as Graham
2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
as Self
2005
Three Steps to Hendon
as Gerry Jameson
2005
TV Shows (22)
Lockwood & Co.
as John Fairfax
2023
Mandy
as Captain
2020
Timewasters
as Langley
2017
Richard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Panellist
2017
We Have Been Watching
as Self
2017
Upstart Crow
as Egeus
2016
Grantchester
as Giles Montgomery
2014
Boomers
2014
Inside No. 9
as Frank
2014
Father Brown
as Ronnie Grunion
2013
Death in Paradise
as Eugene Sutton
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
Episodes
as Sanford Shamiro
2011
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
as Gilfroy Deacon McStannahorse
2010
The Michael Ball Show
as Self
2010
The Colour of Magic
as Arch Astronomer
2008
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2007
Inundación
2007
M.I. High
2007
Hogfather
as Mr. Sideney
2006
Legends
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
Mayo
as Robert Bainbridge
2006