Nigel Planer
Birthday: 1953-02-22
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, UK
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.
Movies
Yellowbeard
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their heart...
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Hogfather
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-...
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Flood
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high s...
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Clockwork Mice
When new teacher Steve Drake joins the faculty at a school for special-needs students, his unorthodo...
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The Wind in the Willows
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved To...
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Sleigh
Formerly successful rock band THE KINDNESS are trying to record a Christmas song for their comeback ...
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Carry On Columbus
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the Kin...
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Unnatural Pursuits
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway...
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The Supergrass
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so ...
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I Give It a Year
After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage ...
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The List
Christopher Cowin is in his mid 30s, a family man who owns a small advertising agency. A court case ...
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The Trials of Oz
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz"...
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Dead on Time
Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumb...
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Demonella
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies...
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Summer School
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. Ho...
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Funseekers
Tourists arrive in Ibiza for the 'funseekers' package holiday. Jamie is upset when the annoying Tony...
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Jealousy
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife J...
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Four Men in a Car
Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is gu...
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War
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and God...
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Four Men in a Plane
Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan ...
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Dirty Movie
Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at...
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Susie
In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lu...
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Slags
Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their ga...
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Private Enterprise
Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by ...
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue m...
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklan...
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Oxford
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a com...
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Spaghetti Hoops
In a monochrome city that is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Ald...
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Red Nose of Courage
A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks la...
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The Crying Game
Roy Brush has aspirations to be a great footballer and this seems likely when he scores for England ...
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Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in orde...
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Five Go to Rehab
The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famou...
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imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exp...
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Santa's First Christmas
Up in the frozen north of Lapland, Santa Claus recalls how his work began, how he first decided to b...
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30 Years of Comic Strip
In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retro...
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Number 27
Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a youn...
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The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents...
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Sex Actually
Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire, learning that R...
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Eat the Rich
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to dea...
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Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
Fifty years after her legendary brush with the wolf, an adult Red Riding Hood and her granddaughter ...
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Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and writer, who went out from the ...
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Bright Young Things
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravaga...
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Red Top
Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally...
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From Andy Pandy To Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
The history of pre-digital television children's programming....
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Frankenstein's Baby
Paul quarrels with his girlfriend Jane about when to start a family and Dr Eva Frankenstein comes to...
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The Hunt for Tony Blair
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, ...
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The Comic Strip
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which ...
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How To Be Eighteenth Century
Spoof documentary. Thespian Nicholas Craig looks at "one of the most ferociously demanding of all ac...
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Brazil
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydr...
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The Strike
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners'...
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Burn Burn Burn
Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to sprea...
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The Land Girls
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British far...
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Ratburger
A girl rescues a rat which a malevolent salesman wants to turn into a burger and feed the local scho...
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Bad News
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up ...
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More Bad News
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back...
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Heavy Metal Britannia
Nigel Planer narrates a documentary which traces the origins and development of British heavy metal ...
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Prog Rock Britannia
Overview of Prog Rock history in the UK: Documentary about progressive music and the generation of ...
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How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
In How To Be Old, Nigel Planer's alter-ego Nicholas Craig, master of invention, theatrical historian...
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You Are Here
One-off late '90s comedy special from a cast full of up and coming comic actors and comedians....
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GLC: The Carnage Continues
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden....
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Completely Bad News
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News....
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How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launc...
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Diana & Me
Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for tw...
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Jeepers Creepers
After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star...
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A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out...
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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 u...
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The Rise of the Comic Strip
Documentary about the beginnings and the Channel 4 years of the Comic Strip....
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The Making of 'The Young Ones'
A look back at the making of the insane sitcom and the impact it caused....
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Filthy Rich & Catflap
A satire about three losers: a failed actor, his sleazy agent, and a permanently drunk bodyguard....
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Three Steps to Hendon
The lead singer of a defunct 70s rock band is found murdered with a whisky bottle stuffed down his t...
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Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
An amateur production of A Christmas Carol at a retirement home is reluctantly directed by reclusive...
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Bottom Mindless Violence
The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past ...
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Oh No, Not Them
The untransmitted pilot of the failed American remake of The Young Ones...
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