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