Nigel Planer
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.
As actor 129
Death in Paradise
2011
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994
Film '72
1971
Father Brown
2013
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
GMTV
1993
Sherlock Holmes
1984
Grantchester
2014
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999
Blackadder
1983
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Episodes
2011
Inside No. 9
2014
An Audience with...
1978
Jonathan Creek
1997
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
M.I. High
2007
The Magic Roundabout
1964
The Young Ones
1982
Brazil
1985
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Upstart Crow
2016
The Colour of Magic
2008
Lockwood & Co.
2023
Mandy
2020
Screen One
1989
Legends
2006
The Last Detective
2003
Storyboard
1983
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
2010
Hogfather
2006
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
I Give It a Year
2013
Timewasters
2017
The Michael Ball Show
2010
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
2026
Flood
2007
Boomers
2014
Yellowbeard
1983
Hogfather
2007
Happy Families
1985
The Grimleys
1999
The Wind in the Willows
1996
We Have Been Watching
2017
Blackeyes
1989
Mayo
2006
The Color of Magic 2in1
2010
Bright Young Things
2003
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
Ratburger
2017
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008
The Comic Strip
1981
Red Top
2016
Bonjour la Classe
1993
Carry On Columbus
1992
Eat the Rich
1987
The Marriage of Figaro
1994
The Last Impresario
2014
The Land Girls
1998
More Bad News
1988
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
King and Castle
1986
Summer School
1983
The Crying Game
1992
Jealousy
1993
Bad News
1983
Jeepers Creepers
2020
Dirty Movie
1984
Sleigh
2017
Burn Burn Burn
2016
The List
2013
Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard
2026
Oh No, Not Them
1989
The Strike
1988
Funseekers
1988
The Supergrass
1985
Group Madness
1983
Roll Over Beethoven
1985
Diana & Me
1997
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Demonella
1993
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Four Men in a Car
1998
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008
Cuts
1996
Sex Actually
2005
Dead on Time
1983
The Trials of Oz
1991
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995
Private Enterprise
1986
Clockwork Mice
1995
Susie
1984
Number 27
1988
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Completely Bad News
2019
Oxford
1990
Five Go to Rehab
2012
War
1983
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
You Are Here
1998
Heavy Metal Britannia
2010
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
The Nicholas Craig Masterclass
1990
Slags
1984
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Four Men in a Plane
2000
Frankenstein's Baby
1990
Three Steps to Hendon
2005
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Prog Rock Britannia
2009
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
2009
Santa's First Christmas
1992
From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
2015
How To Be Sci-Fi
2006
How To Be Eighteenth Century
2006