Nigel Planer
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8992 |
| Birthday | 1953-02-22 |
| Place of Birth | Westminster, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1983
Yellowbeard
5.625/156
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sent...
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Yellowbeard
2007
Hogfather
6.8/183
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The belov...
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Hogfather
2007
Flood
5.303/160
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which tra...
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Flood
1995
Clockwork Mice
4.571/7
When new teacher Steve Drake joins the faculty at a school for special-needs students, his unorthodox instruction methods raise eyebrows. But attitude...
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Clockwork Mice
1996
The Wind in the Willows
5.754/59
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels,...
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The Wind in the Willows
2017
Sleigh
0/0
Formerly successful rock band THE KINDNESS are trying to record a Christmas song for their comeback single. It's the height of summer, tempers are fra...
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Sleigh
1992
Carry On Columbus
3.907/43
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
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Carry On Columbus
1992
Unnatural Pursuits
0/0
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
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Unnatural Pursuits
1985
The Supergrass
6.1/15
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girl...
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The Supergrass
2013
I Give It a Year
5.525/792
After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their...
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I Give It a Year
2013
The List
4.3/16
Christopher Cowin is in his mid 30s, a family man who owns a small advertising agency. A court case he had recently lost has shown him the rich and po...
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The List
1991
The Trials of Oz
6.333/6
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
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The Trials of Oz
1983
Dead on Time
6.85/10
Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final minutes to...
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Dead on Time
1993
Demonella
0/0
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called...
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Demonella
1983
Summer School
0/0
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a mod...
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Summer School
1988
Funseekers
0/0
Tourists arrive in Ibiza for the 'funseekers' package holiday. Jamie is upset when the annoying Tony moves into his room. He gets his revenge when he...
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Funseekers
1993
Jealousy
0/0
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair...
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Jealousy
1998
Four Men in a Car
0/0
Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering, Steve...
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Four Men in a Car
1983
War
10/1
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after wi...
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War
2000
Four Men in a Plane
0/0
Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile-high club with a model in the toile...
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Four Men in a Plane
1984
Dirty Movie
0/0
Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at his local cinema. However, he is unaware that the...
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Dirty Movie
1984
Susie
0/0
In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lusty mechanic Dave when she meets romantic former p...
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Susie
1984
Slags
2/1
Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their gang the Slags has disbanded due to a rival gang, th...
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Slags
1986
Private Enterprise
0/0
Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he...
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Private Enterprise
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
0/0
Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue mission when a dictator invades the Falklands.
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
0/0
In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklands, which have indeed been taken over by the Argen...
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Oxford
0/0
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his...
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Oxford
1990
Spaghetti Hoops
0/0
In a monochrome city that is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Aldo Vini is on the run from Mafia boss Corelli, from...
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Spaghetti Hoops
1992
Red Nose of Courage
8/1
A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after...
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Red Nose of Courage
1992
The Crying Game
0/0
Roy Brush has aspirations to be a great footballer and this seems likely when he scores for England in the European Cup Final. To add to this he becom...
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The Crying Game
1993
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
0/0
Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. At th...
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Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
2012
Five Go to Rehab
0/0
The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These...
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Five Go to Rehab
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
7/1
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire, sillines...
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imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
1992
Santa's First Christmas
1.2/2
Up in the frozen north of Lapland, Santa Claus recalls how his work began, how he first decided to bring toys and joys to kids around the world, how h...
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Santa's First Christmas
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
5/1
The cast and crew of The Comic Strip share anecdotes about the making of the show, recounting experiences marked by a playful disregard for health and...
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30 Years of Comic Strip
1988
Number 27
9/1
Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a young property developer arrives at her front door to...
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Number 27
2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
7.5/2
A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents
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The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Sex Actually
6.5/2
Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire, learning that Ron and Helen, the previous owners of their house,...
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Sex Actually
1987
Eat the Rich
6.222/36
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class...
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Eat the Rich
2022
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
7/2
Fifty years after her legendary brush with the wolf, an adult Red Riding Hood and her granddaughter face a new lupine problem.
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Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2008
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
7.8/5
A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and writer, who went out from the BBC to conquer Hollywood, but sadly the system qui...
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Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2003
Bright Young Things
6.266/94
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...
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Bright Young Things
2016
Red Top
5.3/3
Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and...
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Red Top
2015
From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
8/1
The history of pre-digital television children's programming.
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From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
1990
Frankenstein's Baby
0/0
Paul quarrels with his girlfriend Jane about when to start a family and Dr Eva Frankenstein comes to his aid by helping him to become the world's firs...
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Frankenstein's Baby
2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair
7.8/4
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follo...
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The Hunt for Tony Blair
1981
The Comic Strip
8/1
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'
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The Comic Strip
2006
How To Be Eighteenth Century
0/0
Spoof documentary. Thespian Nicholas Craig looks at "one of the most ferociously demanding of all acting periods, the 18th century". Tips on how to ha...
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How To Be Eighteenth Century
1985
Brazil
7.7/3676
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautif...
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Brazil
1988
The Strike
7/3
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company...
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The Strike
2016
Burn Burn Burn
6.565/54
Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan...
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Burn Burn Burn
1998
The Land Girls
6/27
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land...
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The Land Girls
2017
Ratburger
4.3/6
A girl rescues a rat which a malevolent salesman wants to turn into a burger and feed the local schoolchildren with.
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Ratburger
1983
Bad News
8.7/6
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journa...
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Bad News
1988
More Bad News
9.8/4
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their exploits...
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More Bad News
1983
Group Madness
9/1
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
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Group Madness
2010
Heavy Metal Britannia
7.1/9
Nigel Planer narrates a documentary which traces the origins and development of British heavy metal from its humble beginnings in the industrialised M...
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Heavy Metal Britannia
2009
Prog Rock Britannia
7.6/6
Overview of Prog Rock history in the UK: Documentary about progressive music and the generation of bands that were involved, from the international s...
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Prog Rock Britannia
2009
How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
0/0
In How To Be Old, Nigel Planer's alter-ego Nicholas Craig, master of invention, theatrical historian and "absolutely bloody passionate" actor examines...
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How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
1998
You Are Here
8/1
One-off late '90s comedy special from a cast full of up and coming comic actors and comedians.
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You Are Here
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
0/0
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.
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GLC: The Carnage Continues
2019
Completely Bad News
0/0
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
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Completely Bad News
2018
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
7/2
This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show...
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How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
1997
Diana & Me
6/5
Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and...
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Diana & Me
2020
Jeepers Creepers
4/1
After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star, comic genius Marty Feldman found screen stardom...
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Jeepers Creepers
1984
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
7/1
Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a...
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A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
2024
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
8/2
Forty years on from the release of the hit single by charity supergroup Band Aid, this documentary unearths 75 minutes of rare and previously unseen f...
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The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2023
The Rise of the Comic Strip
0/0
Documentary about the beginnings and the Channel 4 years of the Comic Strip.
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The Rise of the Comic Strip
2007
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
0/0
A look back at the making of the insane sitcom and the impact it caused.
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The Making of 'The Young Ones'
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap
5/1
A satire about three losers: a failed actor, his sleazy agent, and a permanently drunk bodyguard.
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Filthy Rich & Catflap
2005
Three Steps to Hendon
0/0
The lead singer of a defunct 70s rock band is found murdered with a whisky bottle stuffed down his throat
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Three Steps to Hendon
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
0/0
An amateur production of A Christmas Carol at a retirement home is reluctantly directed by reclusive man on community service.
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Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
2004
Bottom Mindless Violence
8/2
The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past 25 years they have provided us with some unforgett...
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Bottom Mindless Violence
1989
Oh No, Not Them
0/0
The untransmitted pilot of the failed American remake of The Young Ones
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Oh No, Not Them
2014
The Last Impresario
5.5/4
Michael White might just be the most famous person you’ve never heard of. A notorious London theatre and film impresario, he produced over 300 shows a...
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