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.

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.