Alexei Sayle
Birthday
1952/08/07 (72 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK
Also know as
Alexei David Sayle, Alexy Syale
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. Much of Sayle's humour is in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, with riffs based on often absurd and surreal premises. His...Read more
Acting
(1989) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Sultan
(1986) Solarbabies
as Malice
(2014) Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Self
(2004) Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as Self
(1993) Reckless Kelly
as Major Wib
(2023) Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
as Narrator
(2007) Hitler: The Comedy Years
as D.J. (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1992) Carry On Columbus
as Achmed
(1985) Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
as John Bull
(2006) When Comedy Changed Forever
as Self
(1997) Two Minutes
as Bernie
(2011) The Itch of the Golden Nit
as Planet Jimmy (voice)
(1990) Les Dogs
as Bride's Father
(2000) Don't Walk
as Uncle Henry
(1991) Selling Hitler
as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
(1983) Gorky Park
as Golodkin
(1986) Whoops Apocalypse
as Alexei Sayle in a Hawaiian Shirt
(1987) Up Line
as Melvin Coombes
(2008) The Surprise Demise Of Francis Cooper's Mother
as Narrator
(2008) My Dad Was a Communist
as Self
(1982) The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
as Self - Presenter
(2022) Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self
(2022) The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
(1990) Spaghetti Hoops
as Mog
(1992) Red Nose of Courage
as Dad
(1993) Queen of the Wild Frontier
as Inspector
(2014) 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
(2023) imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self
(2012) 30 Years of Comic Strip
as ---
(2005) The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
as Self
(1989) Just Like That!
as Self
(1982) The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
as Self
(1991) Amnesty International's Big 30
as Self
(1984) Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
as Frank
(2011) The Story of Music Hall
as Self
(1999) Swing
as Mighty Mac
(1991) 'Itch
as Rittblatt
(1990) Night Voice
as Clarence Flamer
(1987) Siesta
as Cabbie
(2024) Bottom: Exposed
as Self
(2016) Red Top
as Colin Goodman
(1995) Sorry About Last Night
as Andy Carolides
(1981) The Comic Strip
as ---
(1985) The Bride
as Magar
(2006) The Thief Lord
as Barbarossa
(2005) The Roots of Monty Python
as Self
(1987) Mr. Corbett's Ghost
as Toll Gate Keeper
(1997) Hospital!
as X Ray Operator
(1988) Jake's Journey
as Head torturer
(1988) The Love Child
as The Voices
(1988) The Strike
as Paul
(1983) The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
as Self
(1997) Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
as Beluga
(2017) Gloves Off
as Algy
(1993) Curaçao
as Seemuller
(1979) Repeater
as 2nd Detective
(2019) Sometimes Always Never
as Bill
(1985) Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
as DJ
(2004) The Legend of the Tamworth Two
as Newspaper Editor
(1985) The Supergrass
as Motorbike Cop
(1988) Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
(2020) How to Build a Girl
as Karl Marx
(2018) How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
as ---
(2007) The Double Life of Saki
as Self
(2007) Tapping the Wire
as Self
(1985) The Caucasian Chalk Circle
as Lavrenti
(1991) Meeting Venus
as Von Schneider (dubbing - voice only) (uncredited)
(1996) Moonlighters
as Narrator (voice)
(2023) The Rise of the Comic Strip
as Self
(2007) The Making of 'The Young Ones'
as Self
(2005) A Bear's Tail
as ---
(2006) The One Show
as Self
(1963) Doctor Who
as D.J.
(2003) Keen Eddie
as ---
(1994) Room 101
as Self
(2006) Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
as ---
(1982) Whoops Apocalypse
as Commissar Solzhenitsyn
(1997) The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Puppeteer
(1976) The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
(1997) Renford Rejects
as ---
(2001) Richard & Judy
as Self
(1982) The Young Ones
as The Balowski Family
(1981) Wolcott
as Speaker in Market
(1986) Lovejoy
as Freddy Reeve
(1999) Bremner, Bird and Fortune
as Pope John Paul II
(1988) Alexei Sayle's Stuff
as ---
(1987) The Lenny Henry Show
as ---
(1994) The All New Alexei Sayle Show
as ---
(1998) Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
as ---
(1990) The Gravy Train
as Vlad Milcic
(1994) The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
as ---
(2004) Blood Matters
as ---
(2010) The Michael Ball Show
as Self
(1986) Casualty
as Anton Malinovsky
(2003) Spine Chillers
as Graham
(1982) O.T.T.
as ---
(2009) Horrible Histories
as Dr. Ushma
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
(2014) Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
as Self
(2020) Mandy
as Darren Dugdale
(1990) Have I Got News for You
as Himself
(1994) Paris
as Alain Degout
(1980) Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
as ---
(2002) Tipping the Velvet
as Charles Frobisher
(1996) Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self
(2000) Arabian Nights
as BacBac
(1980) Great Railway Journeys
as Self - Presenter
(2014) For the Love of Cars
as Himself
(2008) Q&A
as Self - Panellist
(1979) Question Time
as Himself - Panellist
(1991) Selling Hitler
as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Motorbike Cop
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Paul
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Mog
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Bride's Father
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Dad
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Inspector
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Compere
(1998) Parkinson
as Self
(2017) Richard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Panellist
(2024) Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
as Self - Guest
(2011) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant