Nigel Planer
Department: Acting
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
Yellowbeard
1983
Hogfather
2007
Flood
2007
Clockwork Mice
1995
The Wind in the Willows
1996
Sleigh
2017
Carry On Columbus
1992
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
The Supergrass
1985
I Give It a Year
2013
The List
2013
The Trials of Oz
1991
Dead on Time
1983
Demonella
1993
Summer School
1983
Funseekers
1988
Jealousy
1993
Four Men in a Car
1998
War
1983
Four Men in a Plane
2000
Dirty Movie
1984
Susie
1984
Slags
1984
Private Enterprise
1986
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Oxford
1990
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
The Crying Game
1992
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
Five Go to Rehab
2012
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
Santa's First Christmas
1992
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Number 27
1988
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Sex Actually
2005
Eat the Rich
1987
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008
Bright Young Things
2003
Red Top
2016
From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
2015
Frankenstein's Baby
1990
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
The Comic Strip
1981
How To Be Eighteenth Century
2006
Brazil
1985
The Strike
1988
Burn Burn Burn
2016
The Land Girls
1998
Ratburger
2017
Bad News
1983
More Bad News
1988
Group Madness
1983
Heavy Metal Britannia
2010
Prog Rock Britannia
2009
How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
2009
You Are Here
1998
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
Completely Bad News
2019
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
Diana & Me
1997
Jeepers Creepers
2020
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
Three Steps to Hendon
2005
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
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Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Oh No, Not Them
1989
The Last Impresario
2014
Jonathan Creek
1997
The Magic Roundabout
1964
We Have Been Watching
2017
Sherlock Holmes
1984
The Young Ones
1982
The Grimleys
1999
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Mayo
2006
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
The Nicholas Craig Masterclass
1990
The Last Detective
2003
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Bonjour la Classe
1993
Roll Over Beethoven
1985
GMTV
1993
The Michael Ball Show
2010
King and Castle
1986
Hogfather
2006
The Marriage of Figaro
1994
Father Brown
2013
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
2010
Blackadder
1983
Boomers
2014
Happy Families
1985
Mandy
2020
An Audience with...
1978
Episodes
2011
Timewasters
2017
Blackeyes
1989
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
Death in Paradise
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Legends
2006
Lockwood & Co.
2023
Inside No. 9
2014
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
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1982
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1982
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1982
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1982
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1982
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1982
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
Grantchester
2014
The Colour of Magic
2008
Upstart Crow
2016
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
M.I. High
2007