Nigel Planer

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Feb 22, 1953 (72 years old)

Nigel Planer

Known For

The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?
1h 14m
Movie 2024

The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?

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 film footage from the day of recording

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
1h 29m
Movie 2023

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire, silliness and, above all, friendship.

The Rise of the Comic Strip
1h 33m
Movie 2023

The Rise of the Comic Strip

Documentary about the beginnings and the Channel 4 years of the Comic Strip.

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
0h 45m
Movie 2022

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After

Fifty years after her legendary brush with the wolf, an adult Red Riding Hood and her granddaughter face a new lupine problem.

Jeepers Creepers
1h 17m
Movie 2020

Jeepers Creepers

After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star, comic genius Marty Feldman found screen stardom with his very first Hollywood role in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. With his wife Lauretta as the power behind the throne, his rise and fall and decline is related through bittersweet memories of the past and intoxicated infidelities in the present.

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
1h 30m
Movie 2018

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

Ratburger
1h 7m
Movie 2017

Ratburger

A girl rescues a rat, which the malevolent burgerman wants to make into a burger and sell to the local school children and people.

Sleigh
0h 13m
Movie 2017

Sleigh

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 fraying and obnoxious lead singer Rob and his dad Gerald, the officious Bishop, aren't helping. So, with the aid of port, cheese and swearing, it's up to long-suffering manager Martin to save the day.

We Have Been Watching
TV Show 2017

We Have Been Watching

This series features some of Britain's best-loved comedians and funniest comedy actors gathering together for a jolly night in front of the telly, watching clips from classic sitcoms and sketch shows both old and new.

Burn Burn Burn
1h 46m
Movie 2016

Burn Burn Burn

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 is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.

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.

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