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Nigel Planer

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Nigel Planer

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Birthday
Feb 22, 1953 (72 years old)

Nigel Planer

Known For

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

The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?

Forty years on from the release of the hit single...

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

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

imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the...

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

The Rise of the Comic Strip

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

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Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
45min
DOLBY
Movie 2022

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After

Fifty years after her legendary brush with the wolf, an...

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Jeepers Creepers
1h 17m
DOLBY
Movie 2020

Jeepers Creepers

After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then...

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

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most...

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Ratburger
1h 7m
DOLBY
Movie 2017

Ratburger

A girl rescues a rat, which the malevolent burgerman wants...

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Sleigh
13min
DOLBY
Movie 2017

Sleigh

Formerly successful rock band THE KINDNESS are trying to record...

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6 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2017

We Have Been Watching

This series features some of Britain's best-loved comedians and funniest...

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Burn Burn Burn
1h 46m
DOLBY
Movie 2016

Burn Burn Burn

Following the death of their friend, two girls in their...

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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.

Acting

2024
The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2022
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2020
Jeepers Creepers
2018
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2017
Ratburger
2017
Sleigh
2017
We Have Been Watching
2016
Burn Burn Burn
2016
Red Top
2015
From Andy Pandy To Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
2013
The List
2013
I Give It a Year
2012
Five Go to Rehab
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2010
Heavy Metal Britannia
2009
How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
2008
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2007
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
Hogfather
2006
Hogfather
2006
How To Be Eighteenth Century
2005
Sex Actually
2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2003
Bright Young Things
2000
Four Men in a Plane
1999
The Grimleys
1998
You Are Here
1998
The Land Girls
1998
Four Men in a Car
1996
The Wind in the Willows
1994
The Marriage of Figaro
1993
Jealousy
1993
Demonella
1993
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
Bonjour la Classe
1992
Santa's First Christmas
1992
Carry On Columbus
1992
The Crying Game
1992
Red Nose of Courage
1990
The Nicholas Craig Masterclass
1990
Frankenstein's Baby
1990
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Oxford
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1989
Blackeyes
1988
Funseekers
1988
More Bad News
1988
The Strike
1988
Number 27
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1986
King and Castle
1986
Private Enterprise
1985
Roll Over Beethoven
1985
Brazil