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
Movies
- 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
- Funseekers
1988
- Summer School
1983
- 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:...
1990
- Spaghetti Hoops
1990
- Oxford
1990
- South Atlantic Raiders:...
1990
- Red Nose of Courage
1992
- The Crying Game
1992
- Gregory: Diary of a Nut...
1993
- Five Go to Rehab
2012
- imagine... French & Sau...
2023
- Santa's First Christmas
1992
- 30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
- Number 27
1988
- The Comic Strip - A Ret...
2005
- Sex Actually
2005
- Eat the Rich
1987
- Red Riding Hood: After ...
2022
- Marty Feldman: Six Degr...
2008
- Bright Young Things
2003
- Red Top
2016
- From Andy Pandy To Zebe...
2015
- Frankenstein's Baby
1990
- The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
- The Comic Strip
1981
- How To Be Eighteenth Ce...
2006
- Brazil
1985
- The Strike
1988
- Burn Burn Burn
2016
- The Land Girls
1998
- Ratburger
2017
- More Bad News
1988
- Bad News
1983
- Group Madness
1983
- Heavy Metal Britannia
2010
- Prog Rock Britannia
2009
- How to Be Old with Nich...
2009
- You Are Here
1998
- GLC: The Carnage Contin...
1990
- Completely Bad News
2019
- How The Young Ones Chan...
2018
- Diana & Me
1997
- Jeepers Creepers
2020
- A Fistful of Travellers...
1984
- The Making of Do They K...
2024
- The Rise of the Comic S...
2023
- The Making of 'The Youn...
2007
- Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
- Three Steps to Hendon
2005
- Merry Christmas Aubrey ...
- Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
TV Shows
- Jonathan Creek
1997
- Le manège enchanté
1964
- We Have Been Watching
2017
- Sherlock Holmes
1984
- The Young Ones
1982
- The Grimleys
1999
- M.I. High
2007
- Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
- Mayo
2006
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
- The Nicholas Craig Mast...
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 D...
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...
1980
- Death in Paradise
2011
- Celebrity Antiques Road...
2011
- Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
- Legends
2006
- Lockwood & Co.
2023
- Inside No. 9
2014
- Ready, Steady, Cook
1994
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
- Grantchester
2014
- The Colour of Magic
2008
- Inundación
2007
- Upstart Crow
2016