Nigel Planer

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Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953) is an English actor, comedian, author, and playwright who appeared in the cult BBC comedy The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap.

He has appeared in several West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

He has appeared in Hairspray before.

In 1984, he received a BRIT award and has been nominated for Olivier, TMA, What's On Stage, and BAFTA awards.

Early life

In 1933, the Planer's father's Hungarian-Romanian family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Mortlake, London. He founded a medical equipment firm that pioneered the development of controlled-rate freezers, IVF, and stem cells. Nigel, a twin, was born in Westminster, London. He attended King's House School in Richmond and Westminster School in central London, where he co-authored a satirical play about the academy with fellow student Stephen Poliakoff. He had failed to gain a place on a drama course at a university but instead took a degree in African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex but then moved to Europe. After being sick, he applied and was accepted to study acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he met Peter Richardson and started working with him.

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Career

Planer was a founding member of the London Comedy Store and a founding member of The Comic Strip, the original founders of the British alternative comedy movement. Planer appeared with Peter Richardson as part of the double act "The Outer Limits." The That's Life of Planer and Richardson also wrote the That's Life. Not the Nine O'Clock News parody. He went on to act in film, theatre, and television over the next 20 years. Christopher Douglas created "Nicholas Craig," which appears in print, radio, TV, and newspapers as well as live; most recently in Stewart Lee's At Last the 1984 show at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Planer is also the author of several books, radio plays, and television scripts, as well as a small amount of poetry. In June 2011, he was granted an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Edinburgh Napier University.

Planer is best known for his role as Neil, the hippie housemate in the BBC comedy The Young Ones, which aired in 1982 and 1984. He has appeared in The Comic Strip Presents..., a series of short films that have been sporadically broadcast from 1982 to 1990 as various strange strangers.

Planer played Professor Dumbledore in a Harry Potter parody, Harry Potter, and Azerbaijan's Secret Chamber Pot. In 2007, he appeared on a BBC4 show in the guise of Nicholas Craig, in which Mark Lawson talked to him.

Planer appeared in "The Pale Horse," a 2010 episode of Agatha Christie's Marple. In 2011, Tony Blair played Peter Mandelson in The Hunt for Tony Blair.

Planer's guest appearances include programs such as The Bill, French and Saunders, Jonathan Creek, Blackadder III, The Last Detective, The Paul Merton Exhibition, Death in Paradise, and Gary Wilmot's Songs from the Shows. In addition to being in the BBC series Boomers, he appeared in an episode of This is Jinsy titled "Nameworm." In the TV series Episodes, Planer played Matt LeBlanc's counsel.

Shine on Harvey Moon, Filthy Rich and Catflap, The Grimleys, King and Castle, Bonjour La Classe, and Roll Over Beethoven are among the leading roles on television. Dennis Potter, Michael Palin's Number 27, Emma Tennant's Frankenstein's Baby, and Dennis Potter's Blackeyes appeared in several films.

In the original West End run of Evita, understudying David Essex as Che Guevara was his first break in the theatre.

In 1990, he replaced Michael Gambon in Alan Ayckbourn's Man of the Moment. Leading roles followed in other productions at the Bush Theatre, the Lyric Theatre, the Traverse, the Young Vic, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Regent's Park Open-Air Theatre, Plymouth Drum, and the Hampstead Theatre.

Planer was in the original cast of Chicago's 1997 London revival as Amos Hart. He appeared on Ben Elton's original West End cast's We Will Rock You As Pop.

He appeared in Manchester and Bromley from 10 to 15 July 2006 as the narrator in The Rocky Horror Show. In the original West End production of Wicked starring Idina Menzel, he appeared as The Wizard. On September 27, the show opened at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in Melbourne, Canada. Planer ceased his service on June 7, 2008, and Desmond Barrit took over.

In the West End production of Hairspray on February 2, 2009, he took over Wilbur from Ian Talbot.

Planer resurfaced as the Narrator in the UK tour of The Rocky Horror Show in 2010, appearing in Cambridge and Northampton, before reserving Wilbur in Manchester and Leeds. Before appearing in Pantomime as Captain Hook at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, he appeared in Doctor Who: Live touring the United Kingdom as Vorgenson The Intergalactic Showman.

Planer continued to act as Grandpa Joe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's original production, which opened in London's West End in 2013.

Planer and Ade Edmondson performed in a work titled Vulcan 7 together from September 2018 to November 2018.

Planer has appeared in films including Flooding, Virgin Territory, Bright Young Things, Hogfather, The Colour of Magic, The Wind in the Willows, The Land Girls, Clockwork Mice, Carry On Columbus, Brazil, The Supergrass, I Give It a Year, The Apple Picker, and Yellowbeard.

Den Dennis, one of the four members of the 1980s spoof rock band Bad News, had two albums published by Brian May, was one of Den Dennis, one of the four members of the 1980s spoof rock band Bad News. The band appeared at the Hammersmith Apollo, Donington, and Reading Rock Festivals.

Planer, Neil Young Ones, made his first hit single in 1984 in the form of "Hole in My Shoe" (originally a hit for 1960s band Traffic). A preview of Tomorrow's "My White Bicycle" was a less fruitful sequel, with only reaching No. 97 in the charts. After that, Neil's Heavy Concept Album was released, as a result. In the year 2000, Planer took Neil's stage act on the road as Neil in the "Bad Karma in The United Kingdom" tour. This came as a result of a month-long absence at St. Mary's Hall in Edinburgh's Fringe. The Young Ones appeared on Cliff Richard's 1986 charity rerecording of "Life Doll," which spent three weeks in the United Kingdom, at number one. He has a silver and gold disc as well as a Brit award from his musical career. Rainsmoke was Chris Wade's first music project in 2015, alongside Doug Dodson and Fogg (Dodson and Fogg) and Roger Planer.

He recorded two songs for the album Wit & Whimsy – Songs by Alexander S. Bermange (one solo and one featuring all of the album's 23 artists) in 2017, which debuted No. 10. Rank 1 on the iTunes comedy album chart.

Planer released several of his own musical projects in 2021. "Five Songs Left" and "Four Songs More" are two Nick Drake-inspired folk songs written in 1971, the first songs written when we were eighteen. "City in the Summer," a jazz song about COVID-19's hot summer, as well as "Love Strikes," has two singles published more recently. He also wrote lyrics for "Commit No Nuisance," a music project with Neil Avery. "Talk it Out," one of the album's songs, is referred to as a "labour of love." Matts Lindblom has also written lyrics.

Planer was the first main reader for many of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books in the first unabridged audiobook editions. He appeared in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather and The Colour of Magic's television series, as a voice artist in the games Discworld 2 and Discworld Noir. Planer's Discworld Audiobooks are narrated by Planer (with a number of parentheses indicating the order of the book in the Discworld series).

In an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, Christopher Ryan and Rik Mayall co-stars, as well as the narrator of Grizzly Tales for Fiendish Kids (and the audiobook narrator for Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids). Planer has also been the narrator of several of BBC Four's British Empire documentaries, including Prog Rock Britannia, Blues Britannia, and Heavy Metal Britannia. In addition,, he appeared as Frodo in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, the 1992 radio series Tales from the Perilous Realm. In 1994, he appeared in a direct-to-video version of Val Biro's Gumdrop book series. Chris Wade's progressive folk rock project In A Strange Slumber, he also narrated two short surreal monologues on the album. In the radio version of Adrian Mole's The Cappuccino Years, he narrated as a thirty-something Adrian Mole.

In 2018, he portrayed Henry Davit Hythe in the Big Finish Productions original film, Jeremiah Bourne in Time, which he also wrote. Planer also narrated Raymond's Room, a Chris Wade audiobook that was published by Wisdom Twins Books.

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