Nigel Planer
ActingBorn
February 22, 1953
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
Jeepers Creepers
2020
Completely Bad News
2019
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
Ratburger
2017
Sleigh
2017
Burn Burn Burn
2016
Red Top
2016
From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
2015
The Last Impresario
2014
The List
2013
I Give It a Year
2013
Five Go to Rehab
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
Heavy Metal Britannia
2010
How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
2009
Prog Rock Britannia
2009
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
Hogfather
2007
Flood
2007
How To Be Eighteenth Century
2006
Sex Actually
2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Three Steps to Hendon
2005
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Bright Young Things
2003
Four Men in a Plane
2000
You Are Here
1998
The Land Girls
1998
Four Men in a Car
1998
Diana & Me
1997
The Wind in the Willows
1996
Clockwork Mice
1995
Jealousy
1993
Demonella
1993
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
Santa's First Christmas
1992
Carry On Columbus
1992
The Crying Game
1992
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
The Trials of Oz
1991
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
1990
Oh No, Not Them
1989
Number 27
1988
Funseekers
1988
More Bad News
1988
The Strike
1988
Eat the Rich
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
Private Enterprise
1986
The Supergrass
1985
Brazil
1985
Slags
1984
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Susie
1984
Dirty Movie
1984
Yellowbeard
1983
Group Madness
1983
Summer School
1983
Bad News
1983
War
1983
Dead on Time
1983
The Comic Strip
1981
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
Lockwood & Co.
2023
Mandy
2020
Timewasters
2017
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
We Have Been Watching
2017
Upstart Crow
2016
Grantchester
2014
Boomers
2014
Inside No. 9
2014
Father Brown
2013
Death in Paradise
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Episodes
2011
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
2010
The Michael Ball Show
2010
The Colour of Magic
2008
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
M.I. High
2007
Hogfather
2006
Legends
2006
Mayo
2006
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
The Last Detective
2003
The Grimleys
1999
Jonathan Creek
1997
The Marriage of Figaro
1994
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994
Bonjour la Classe
1993
GMTV
1993
The Nicholas Craig Masterclass
1990
Blackeyes
1989
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
King and Castle
1986
Happy Families
1985
Roll Over Beethoven
1985
Sherlock Holmes
1984
Blackadder
1983
The Young Ones
1982
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1982
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Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
An Audience with...
1978
The Magic Roundabout
1964