Nigel Planer
Known for: Acting
Born: February 22, 1953
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
Funseekers
1988
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
2015
Frankenstein's Baby
1990
How To Be Eighteenth Century
2006
Prog Rock Britannia
2009
How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
2009
Oh No, Not Them
1989
Sleigh
2017
Santa's First Christmas
1992
Number 27
1988
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Four Men in a Plane
2000
Private Enterprise
1986
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
More Bad News
1988
Bad News
1983
Completely Bad News
2019
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
Four Men in a Car
1998
Susie
1984
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
The Comic Strip
1981
Ratburger
2017
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
The Supergrass
1985
The Crying Game
1992
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
The Strike
1988
Hogfather
2007
The List
2013
Summer School
1983
War
1983
Dirty Movie
1984
Oxford
1990
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Red Top
2016
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Flood
2007
Demonella
1993
Jealousy
1993
Sex Actually
2005
Clockwork Mice
1995
Five Go to Rehab
2012
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008
Carry On Columbus
1992
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
You Are Here
1998
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
2026
I Give It a Year
2013
Dead on Time
1983
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Burn Burn Burn
2016
The Last Impresario
2014
Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'stard
2026
The Trials of Oz
1991
Slags
1984
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
The Land Girls
1998
Three Steps to Hendon
2005
Yellowbeard
1983
The Wind in the Willows
1996
Diana & Me
1997
Jeepers Creepers
2020
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
Brazil
1985
Heavy Metal Britannia
2010
Group Madness
1983
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Bright Young Things
2003
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024
Eat the Rich
1987
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
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
Screen One
1989
How To Be Sci-Fi
2006
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994
Film '72
1971