
Acting
Nigel Planer
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 with Nigel Planer

Brazil
1985

Flood
2007

I Give It a Year
2013

Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'stard
2026

Hogfather
2007

Yellowbeard
1983

Bad News
1983
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
2026

Summer School
1983

The List
2013

The Land Girls
1998

Spaghetti Hoops
1990

Bright Young Things
2003

Eat the Rich
1987

Red Top
2016

The Last Impresario
2014

The Supergrass
1985

Carry On Columbus
1992

You Are Here
1998

Ratburger
2017

Sex Actually
2005

Burn Burn Burn
2016

Dead on Time
1983

The Comic Strip
1981

Group Madness
1983

Jealousy
1993

The Wind in the Willows
1996

Demonella
1993

Oh No, Not Them
1989

The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008

Jeepers Creepers
2020

Dirty Movie
1984

More Bad News
1988

The Trials of Oz
1991

Clockwork Mice
1995

The Strike
1988

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005

The Crying Game
1992

Number 27
1988

Diana & Me
1997

The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011

Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022

Unnatural Pursuits
1992

30 Years of Comic Strip
2012

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018

Three Steps to Hendon
2005

Slags
1984

Susie
1984

Private Enterprise
1986

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990

Four Men in a Car
1998

Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008

The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023

Oxford
1990

Five Go to Rehab
2012

The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007

Red Nose of Courage
1992

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990

Sleigh
2017

Bottom Mindless Violence
2004

GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990

Completely Bad News
2019

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993

Four Men in a Plane
2000

Heavy Metal Britannia
2010

War
1983

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984

Funseekers
1988

Frankenstein's Baby
1990

The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024

Prog Rock Britannia
2009

From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
2015
How To Be Eighteenth Century
2006

Santa's First Christmas
1992
How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig
2009
TV Shows with Nigel Planer

Death in Paradise
2011

Father Brown
2013

Sherlock Holmes
1984

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004

Grantchester
2014

Ready, Steady, Cook
1994

Blackadder
1983

Inside No. 9
2014

Celebrity Mastermind
2003

The Young Ones
1982

GMTV
1993

Jonathan Creek
1997

Episodes
2011

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011

The Comic Strip Presents...
1982

An Audience with...
1978

Screen One
1989
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
Film '72
1971

M.I. High
2007

Legends
2006

Richard Osman's House of Games
2017

Lockwood & Co.
2023

The Colour of Magic
2008

Upstart Crow
2016

Mandy
2020

Shine on Harvey Moon
1982

The Last Detective
2003

Boomers
2014

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994

Timewasters
2017

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
2010

The Grimleys
1999
The Michael Ball Show
2010

Mayo
2006

Blackeyes
1989

Hogfather
2006

Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987

The Magic Roundabout
1964

Happy Families
1985

We Have Been Watching
2017
Roll Over Beethoven
1985

King and Castle
1986

Bonjour la Classe
1993

The Marriage of Figaro
1994

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
The Nicholas Craig Masterclass
1990
How To Be Sci-Fi
2006