Nigel Planer

ACTOR, MUSIC_DEPARTMENT, WRITER

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Nigel Planer was born in London and educated at the prestigious Westminster School. He then went to Sussex University to study African and Asian Studies. However, he left after a year and decided to pursue his love of theatre. He trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.Planer performed at The Comedy Store in a double-act with Peter Richardson, which led to him becoming known to television audiences as Neil in The Young Ones (1982), the dim, unclean but lovable hippie with a fondness for Hawkwind, Marillion and Steve Hillage. The role's popularity even led to Planer releasing a cover of Traffic's 1967 single "Hole In My Shoe" in character as Neil. His cover, released in July 1984, reached number two on the UK singles chart and led to Planer making appearances on Top of the Pops (1964) and Australia's Countdown (1974). Planer also recorded an album called "Neil's Heavy Concept Album", although this failed to chart. In November 1984, Planer even made an appearance as Neil at the recording of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", where he was able to perform an impromptu acoustic version of "Rocking All Over The World" with Rick Parfitt and address Phil Collins as "Joan", which was captured by cameras recording behind-the-scenes footage for a documentary.Since the 1980s, Planer has established himself as one of Britain's most sought-after comedy and character actors. In 1985, he appeared in Terry Gilliam's acclaimed and influential science-fiction film Brazil (1985). His other appearances have included Shine on Harvey Moon (1982), various roles in The Comic Strip Presents... (1982), Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987), Blackadder the Third (1987) and starring as the title role of Nicholas Craig, the Naked Actor (1990). Planer has also been a successful theatre actor. He has been nominated for Olivier, Theatrical Management Association, What's On Stage and BAFTA awards. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Nigel Planer on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1981 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Nigel Planer movies released per year from 1997 till 2020.

Top Genres

Nigel Planer works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 50% of Nigel Planer movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Nigel Planer worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Nigel Planer has worked on is 6.8.

6.8 / 10

Nigel Planer's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.

8.2/10410 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

A series of self contained television movies starring performers from London's "Comic Strip" comedy club and their friends. Noted for a high sense of parody of previous movies, literature, and generally everyone in sight.

7.8/10\N min

Available in 1 platform(s).

An anthology series that centres around horrible children getting their comeuppance, often in horribly gruesome ways.

7.4/10\N min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A comedy series about three groups of friends coming to terms with retirement.

6.9/1028 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Written and directed by Palme D'Or nominee Klaus Huttmann, THE LIST is a universal and psychological thriller at the edge of our time. Christopher Cowin is in his mid 30s, a family man who ...

4.2/1090 min

Available in 9 platform(s).