ALEXEI SAYLE

Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle
Gender: Male
Known for: Acting
Birthday: August 7, 1952
Place of Birth: Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK

Biography

Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic of all time on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-ups in 2007. In an updated 2010 poll he came 72nd.

Notable work

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Filmography

Starring

2024·
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
Self - Guest
2024·
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
Narrator (voice)
2024·
Censoring Palestine
Self
2024·
Bottom: Exposed
Self
2023·
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Self
2023·
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Self
2023·
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
Narrator
2022·
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self
2022·
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
Self
2020·
Mandy
Darren Dugdale
2020·
How to Build a Girl
Karl Marx
2019·
Sometimes Always Never
Bill
2018·
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2017·
Richard Osman's House of Games
Self - Panellist
2017·
Gloves Off
Algy
2016·
Red Top
Colin Goodman
2014·
For the Love of Cars
Himself
2014·
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Self
2014·
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Self
2014·
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Self
2012·
30 Years of Comic Strip
2011·
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
2011·
The Story of Music Hall
Self
2011·
The Itch of the Golden Nit
Planet Jimmy (voice)
2010·
The Michael Ball Show
Self
2009·
Horrible Histories
Dr. Ushma
2008·
Q&A
Self - Panellist
2008·
My Dad Was a Communist
Self
2008·
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
Narrator
2007·
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
Self
2007·
Tapping the Wire
Self
2007·
The Double Life of Saki
Self
2007·
Hitler: The Comedy Years
D.J. (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006·
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006·
The One Show
Self
2006·
The Thief Lord
Barbarossa
2006·
When Comedy Changed Forever
Self
2005·
A Bear's Tail
2005·
The Roots of Monty Python
Self
2005·
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Self
2004·
Blood Matters
2004·
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Newspaper Editor
2004·
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self
2003·
Spine Chillers
Graham
2003·
Keen Eddie
2002·
Tipping the Velvet
Charles Frobisher
2001·
Richard & Judy
Self
2000·
Arabian Nights
BacBac
2000·
Don't Walk
Uncle Henry
1999·
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
Pope John Paul II
1999·
Swing
Mighty Mac
1998·
Parkinson
Self
1998·
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1997·
Renford Rejects
1997·
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Puppeteer
1997·
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
Beluga
1997·
Hospital!
X Ray Operator
1997·
Two Minutes
Bernie
1996·
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self
1996·
Moonlighters
Narrator (voice)
1995·
Sorry About Last Night
Andy Carolides
1994·
Paris
Alain Degout
1994·
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994·
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994·
Room 101
Self
1993·
Rubbish, King of the Jumble
Rubbish (voice)
1993·
I Was That Monster
Himself
1993·
Curaçao
Seemuller
1993·
Queen of the Wild Frontier
Inspector
1993·
Selling Hitler
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
1993·
Reckless Kelly
Major Wib
1992·
Red Nose of Courage
Dad
1992·
Carry On Columbus
Achmed
1991·
Selling Hitler
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
1991·
Meeting Venus
Von Schneider (dubbing - voice only) (uncredited)
1991·
'Itch
Rittblatt
1991·
Amnesty International's Big 30
Self
1990·
Have I Got News for You
Self
1990·
The Gravy Train
Vlad Milcic
1990·
Night Voice
Clarence Flamer
1990·
Spaghetti Hoops
Mog
1990·
Les Dogs
Bride's Father
1989·
Just Like That!
Self
1989·
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Sultan
1988·
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988·
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
1988·
The Strike
Paul
1988·
The Love Child
The Voices
1988·
Jake's Journey
Head torturer
1987·
The Lenny Henry Show
1987·
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Toll Gate Keeper
1987·
Siesta
Cabbie
1987·
Up Line
Melvin Coombes
1986·
Casualty
Anton Malinovsky
1986·
Lovejoy
Freddy Reeve
1986·
Whoops Apocalypse
Alexei Sayle in a Hawaiian Shirt
1986·
Solarbabies
Malice
1985·
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Lavrenti
1985·
The Supergrass
Motorbike Cop
1985·
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
DJ
1985·
The Bride
Magar
1985·
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
John Bull
1984·
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Frank
1983·
The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
Self
1983·
Gorky Park
Golodkin
1982·
The Comic Strip Presents...
Inspector, Dad, Bride's Father, Mog, Paul, Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
1982·
O.T.T.
1982·
The Young Ones
The Balowski Family
1982·
Whoops Apocalypse
Commissar Solzhenitsyn
1982·
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Self
1982·
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
Self - Presenter
1981·
Wolcott
Speaker in Market
1981·
The Comic Strip
1980·
Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter
1980·
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1979·
Question Time
Himself - Panellist
1979·
Repeater
2nd Detective
1976·
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
1963·
Doctor Who
D.J.

Production

1995·
Sorry About Last Night
Writer
1991·
'Itch
Writer
1988·
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Writer
1983·
The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
Writer
1982·
The Young Ones
Creator, Additional Writing, Writer
1982·
The Comic Strip Presents...
Writer
1981·
The Comic Strip
Writer