Nigel Planer

Person · Open Library

Born

22 February 1953

Works

17

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Westminster, London, England, UK

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

• Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint — Ned2026
• Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard — Self2026
• The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas? — Self2024
• imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter — Self2023
• The Rise of the Comic Strip — Self2023
• Lockwood & Co. — John Fairfax2023
• Red Riding Hood: After Ever After — Nun Wolf2022
• Jeepers Creepers — American Reporter (voice)2020
• Mandy — Captain2020
• Completely Bad News — Den Dennis2019

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1953-02-22

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,395

Total plays

23,416

Nigel Planer is the actor/comedian who played the character of Neil on the early-80s UK TV show, The Young Ones. He released one album in character as Neil entitled Neil's Heavy Concept Album in 1984 on East West records. It was recently reissued on CD. Besides original songs and skits, the album also contains covers of Pink Floyd, Caravan, Donovan, Tomorrow and The Sex Pistols. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Nigel+Planer">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Nigel Planer

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Nigel

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Westminster

Occupation

singer

Languages spoken

English language

Image

Nigel Planer (cropped).jpg

via Wikidata · CC0