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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

Born: Westminster, London, England, UK, 1953-02-22

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	The Comic Strip		0
2	1983	Dead on Time	Boring Friend	65
3	1983	War	Various Roles	100
4	1983	Bad News	Den Dennis	87
5	1983	Summer School	Julian	0
6	1983	Group Madness	Self	0
7	1983	Yellowbeard	Mansell	55
8	1984	Dirty Movie	Nigel	0
9	1984	Susie	Dave	0
10	1984	A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques	Paul	70
11	1984	Slags	Marlon	0
12	1985	Brazil	Charlie--Dept. of Works	77
13	1985	The Supergrass	Gunter	62
14	1986	Private Enterprise	Derek	0
15	1987	Filthy Rich & Catflap	Ralph Filthy	0
16	1987	Eat the Rich	DHSS Manager	62
17	1988	Number 27		0
18	1988	The Strike	Bernard/Old Man/Camp Actor	70
19	1988	More Bad News	Den Dennis	98
20	1988	Funseekers	Tony	0
21	1990	GLC: The Carnage Continues	TV Presenter	0
22	1990	South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1	Stan	0
23	1990	South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!	Stan	0
24	1990	Oxford	Steve's Manager/1st MI5 Man	0
25	1990	Spaghetti Hoops	Aldo Vini	0
26	1990	Frankenstein's Baby	Paul Hocking	0
27	1991	The Trials of Oz	John Peel	60
28	1992	Unnatural Pursuits	George Pepperly	0
29	1992	Red Nose of Courage	Home Secretary	0
30	1992	The Crying Game	Club Chairman/Waiter	0
31	1992	Carry On Columbus	The Wazir	38
32	1992	Santa's First Christmas	Romuald the Reindeer	12
33	1993	Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase	Governor Wilkins	0
34	1993	Demonella	Father	0
35	1993	Jealousy	Transvestite	0
36	1995	Clockwork Mice	Parkey	48
37	1996	The Wind in the Willows	Car Salesman	56
38	1997	Diana & Me	Taxi Driver	60
39	1998	Four Men in a Car	Tim	0
40	1998	The Land Girls	Gerald	60
41	1998	You Are Here	Sheldon Cohen	0
42	2000	Four Men in a Plane	Tim Goodman	0
43	2003	Bright Young Things	Taxi Driver	63
44	2005	The Comic Strip - A Retrospective	Self	60
45	2005	Sex Actually	Graham	65
46	2006	How To Be Eighteenth Century	Nicholas Craig	0
47	2007	Flood	Keith Hopkins	53
48	2007	Hogfather	Mr. Sideney	68
49	2007	The Making of 'The Young Ones'	Self	0
50	2008	Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation	Self - Narrator (voice)	78
51	2009	Prog Rock Britannia	Narrator	76
52	2009	How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig	Nicholas Craig	0
53	2010	Heavy Metal Britannia	Self	71
54	2011	The Hunt for Tony Blair	Peter Mandelson	78
55	2012	30 Years of Comic Strip		0
56	2012	Five Go to Rehab	Barmaid/Inspector	0
57	2013	I Give It a Year	Brian	55
58	2013	The List	Ted Rove	44
59	2015	From Andy Pandy To Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television	Narrator	0
60	2016	Red Top	Rupert Murdoch	53
61	2016	Burn Burn Burn	Henry	66
62	2017	Sleigh	Gerald	0
63	2017	Ratburger	Headmaster	43
64	2018	How The Young Ones Changed Comedy		70
65	2019	Completely Bad News	Den Dennis	0
66	2020	Jeepers Creepers	American Reporter (voice)	40
67	2022	Red Riding Hood: After Ever After	Nun Wolf	40
68	2023	The Rise of the Comic Strip	Self	0
69	2023	imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter	Self	70
70	2024	The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?	Self	80

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	The Magic Roundabout		63
2	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
3	1980	Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights		60
4	1982	Shine on Harvey Moon	Lou Lewis	76
5	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Graham	74
6	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Julian	74
7	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Tommy/Doc/Ivan/McClowsky/Australian	74
8	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Charles	74
9	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Den Dennis	74
10	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Dave	74
11	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Paul	74
12	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Nigel	74
13	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Marlon	74
14	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Derek	74
15	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Bernard/Old Man/Camp Actor 1	74
16	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	TV Presenter	74
17	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Tony	74
18	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Stan	74
19	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Aldo Vini	74
20	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Club Chairman/Waiter	74
21	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Home Secretary	74
22	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Steve's Manager/1st MI5 Man	74
23	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Tim	74
24	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Governor Wilkins	74
25	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Father	74
26	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Transvestite	74
27	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Tim Goodman	74
28	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Barmaid/Inspector	74
29	1982	The Young Ones	Neil	79
30	1983	Blackadder	Lord Smedley	80
31	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Inspector Hopkins	81
32	1985	Roll Over Beethoven		50
33	1985	Happy Families	Barman	67
34	1986	King and Castle	David Castle	0
35	1987	Filthy Rich & Catflap	Ralph Filthy	66
36	1989	Blackeyes	Jeff	60
37	1990	The Nicholas Craig Masterclass		0
38	1993	GMTV	Self	56
39	1993	Bonjour la Classe		50
40	1994	Ready Steady Cook	Self - Guest	0
41	1994	The Marriage of Figaro	Antonio	0
42	1997	Jonathan Creek	Shelford	75
43	1999	The Grimleys	Les Grimley	77
44	2003	The Last Detective		76
45	2003	Celebrity Mastermind		60
46	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Mr. Venables	77
47	2006	Mayo	Robert Bainbridge	42
48	2006	Legends	Self - Narrator (voice)	50
49	2006	Hogfather	Mr. Sideney	76
50	2007	M.I. High		62
51	2007	The Alan Titchmarsh Show	Self	37
52	2008	The Colour of Magic	Arch Astronomer	67
53	2010	The Michael Ball Show	Self	0
54	2010	The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret	Gilfroy Deacon McStannahorse	68
55	2011	Episodes	Sanford Shamiro	72
56	2011	Celebrity Antiques Road Trip	Self - Participant	50
57	2011	Death in Paradise	Eugene Sutton	74
58	2013	Father Brown	Ronnie Grunion	75
59	2014	Inside No. 9	Frank	80
60	2014	Boomers		63
61	2014	Grantchester	Giles Montgomery	73
62	2017	We Have Been Watching	Self	0
63	2017	Timewasters	Langley	62
64	2020	Mandy	Captain	77
65	2023	Lockwood & Co.	John Fairfax	77