Nigel Planer
Popularity:0.609
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1953-02-22
Place of Birth:Westminster, London, England, UK
Homepage:
Also Known As:

Yellowbeard (1983)
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's...

Hogfather (2007)
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The...

Flood (2007)
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which...

Clockwork Mice (1995)
When new teacher Steve Drake joins the faculty at a school for special-needs students, his unorthodox instruction methods raise eyebrows. But...

The Wind in the Willows (1996)
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels,...

Sleigh (2017)
Formerly successful rock band THE KINDNESS are trying to record a Christmas song for their comeback single. It's the height of summer, tempers are...

Carry On Columbus (1992)
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

Unnatural Pursuits (1992)
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

The Supergrass (1985)
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his...

I Give It a Year (2013)
After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their...

The List (2013)
Christopher Cowin is in his mid 30s, a family man who owns a small advertising agency. A court case he had recently lost has shown him the rich and...

The Trials of Oz (1991)
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.

Dead on Time (1983)
Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final minutes...

Demonella (1993)
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece...

Summer School (1983)
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a...

Funseekers (1988)
Tourists arrive in Ibiza for the 'funseekers' package holiday. Jamie is upset when the annoying Tony moves into his room. He gets his revenge when he...

Jealousy (1993)
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair...

Four Men in a Car (1998)
Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering,...

War (1983)
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after...

Four Men in a Plane (2000)
Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile-high club with a model in the...

Dirty Movie (1984)
Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at his local cinema. However, he is unaware that...

Susie (1984)
In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lusty mechanic Dave when she meets romantic former...

Slags (1984)
Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their gang the Slags has disbanded due to a rival gang,...

Private Enterprise (1986)
Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which...

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1 (1990)
Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue mission when a dictator invades the Falklands.

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie! (1990)
In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklands, which have indeed been taken over by the...

Oxford (1990)
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his...

Red Nose of Courage (1992)
A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But...

Spaghetti Hoops (1990)
In a monochrome city that is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Aldo Vini is on the run from Mafia boss Corelli,...

The Crying Game (1992)
Roy Brush has aspirations to be a great footballer and this seems likely when he scores for England in the European Cup Final. To add to this he...

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase (1993)
Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. At...

Five Go to Rehab (2012)
The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset....

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter (2023)
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire,...

Santa's First Christmas (1992)
Up in the frozen north of Lapland, Santa Claus recalls how his work began, how he first decided to bring toys and joys to kids around the world, how...

30 Years of Comic Strip (2012)
In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retrospective documentary. It brings together some of...

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective (2005)
A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents

Sex Actually (2005)
Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire, learning that Ron and Helen, the previous owners of their house,...

Eat the Rich (1987)
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper...

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After (2022)
Fifty years after her legendary brush with the wolf, an adult Red Riding Hood and her granddaughter face a new lupine problem.

Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation (2008)
A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and writer, who went out from the BBC to conquer Hollywood, but sadly the system...

Bright Young Things (2003)
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the...

Red Top (2016)
Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International...

From Andy Pandy To Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television (2015)
The history of pre-digital television children's programming.

Frankenstein's Baby (1990)
Paul quarrels with his girlfriend Jane about when to start a family and Dr Eva Frankenstein comes to his aid by helping him to become the world's...

The Hunt for Tony Blair (2011)
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens,...

The Comic Strip (1981)
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

How To Be Eighteenth Century (2006)
Spoof documentary. Thespian Nicholas Craig looks at "one of the most ferociously demanding of all acting periods, the 18th century". Tips on how to...

Brazil (1985)
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a...

The Strike (1988)
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production...

Burn Burn Burn (2016)
Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving....

The Land Girls (1998)
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such...

Ratburger (2017)
A girl rescues a rat, which the malevolent burgerman wants to make into a burger and sell to the local school children and people.

Bad News (1983)
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock...

More Bad News (1988)
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their...

Group Madness (1983)
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard

Heavy Metal Britannia (2010)
Nigel Planer narrates a documentary which traces the origins and development of British heavy metal from its humble beginnings in the industrialised...

Prog Rock Britannia (2009)
Overview of Prog Rock history in the UK: Documentary about progressive music and the generation of bands that were involved, from the international...

How to Be Old with Nicholas Craig (2009)
In How To Be Old, Nigel Planer's alter-ego Nicholas Craig, master of invention, theatrical historian and "absolutely bloody passionate" actor...

You Are Here (1998)
One-off late '90s comedy special from a cast full of up and coming comic actors and comedians.

GLC: The Carnage Continues (1990)
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.

Completely Bad News (2019)
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy (2018)
This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the...

Diana & Me (1997)
Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and...

Jeepers Creepers (2020)
After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star, comic genius Marty Feldman found screen stardom...

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques (1984)
Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At...

The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas? (2024)
Forty years on from the release of the hit single by charity supergroup Band Aid, this documentary unearths 75 minutes of rare and previously unseen...

The Rise of the Comic Strip (2023)
Documentary about the beginnings and the Channel 4 years of the Comic Strip.

The Making of 'The Young Ones' (2007)
A look back at the making of the insane sitcom and the impact it caused.

Jonathan Creek (1997)
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to...

The Magic Roundabout (1964)
The Magic Roundabout is a French-British children's television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot, with the help of Ivor Wood and...

We Have Been Watching (2017)
This series features some of Britain's best-loved comedians and funniest comedy actors gathering together for a jolly night in front of the telly,...

Sherlock Holmes (1984)
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend...

The Young Ones (1982)
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard,...

The Grimleys (1999)
The Grimleys is a nostalgic comedy-drama television series set on a council estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. It was first...

M.I. High (2007)
M.I. High is a BBC children's spy-fi adventure series. It was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Kudos, who also produced the...

Shine on Harvey Moon (1982)
Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived...

Mayo (2006)
Charismatic detective Gil Mayo wise-cracks his way through a variety of murder mysteries alongside his sexy colleague, Alex Jones. Matters aren't...

The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2007)
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently...

The Last Detective (2003)
"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged...

Celebrity Mastermind (2003)
Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind,...

Bonjour la Classe (1993)
Bonjour la Classe is a British television comedy series broadcast on BBC1 in 1993. Created and written by Paul Smith and Terry Kyan, the series...

GMTV (1993)
GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3...

The Michael Ball Show (2010)
The Michael Ball Show was a British topical entertainment show broadcast on ITV in 2010. It featured entertainment, discussion and showbiz glamour...

King and Castle (1986)
Having hastily left the Met before his dubious activities finally caught up with him, ex-detective Ronald King has formed the Manor Debt Collection...

Hogfather (2006)
On the night before Hogswatch, the holiday where kids anticipate presents from the beloved Hogfather, Death notices that the Hogfather's life-timer...

The Marriage of Figaro (1994)
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. With libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte in a new translation by Tony Britten and Nicholas Broadhurst. Transmitted in three...

Father Brown (2013)
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve...

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2010)
Comedy about an inept American placed in charge of sales at his company's London branch. He has no experience with British culture, knows nothing...

Blackadder (1983)
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle...

Boomers (2014)
Sitcom following the ups and downs of three retired couples living in Thurnemouth, 'Norfolk's only West-facing resort'.

Jonathan Creek (1997)
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to...

Happy Families (1985)
Happy Families was a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which appeared on the BBC in 1985 and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family....

Mandy (2020)
Mandy is a woman with dreams. Big dreams. Most of all she dreams of breeding Doberman Pinchers. But there are hurdles to overcome before that dream...

An Audience with... (1978)
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian,...

Episodes (2011)
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.

Timewasters (2017)
A struggling four-piece South London jazz band find themselves transported back in time to the 1920s and 1950s via an elevator in a dilapidated block...

The Colour of Magic (2008)
As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a...

Blackeyes (1989)
77-year-old Maurice James Kingsley writtes a successful novel about a fashion model, in this Dennis Potter miniseries. But Maurice’s furious...

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights (1980)
Groundbreaking alternative comedy programme bringing the new wave of humour to television for the first time.

Death in Paradise (2011)
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of...

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011)
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction

Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and...

Legends (2006)
The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.

Lockwood & Co. (2023)
A girl with extraordinary psychic abilities joins two gifted teen boys at a small ghost-hunting agency to fight the many deadly spirits haunting...

Inside No. 9 (2014)
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

Ready Steady Cook (1994)
Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987)
Richie causes trouble in his pursuit of TV fame with Eddie, his alcoholic minder, and Filthy, his sponging agent.

Grantchester (2014)
In 1953 at the hamlet of Grantchester, Sidney Chambers—a charismatic, charming clergyman—turns investigative vicar when one of his...

Grantchester (1970)
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...