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
2026
2024
- Bottom: Exposed as Self
- Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry as Self - Guest
- Censoring Palestine 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
- Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry as Self
- The Fringe, Fame and Me 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
- Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled as Self
- For the Love of Cars as Himself
- Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule as Self
- 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy as Self
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
- The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother as Narrator
- My Dad Was a Communist as Self
2007
- Tapping the Wire as Self
- Hitler: The Comedy Years as D.J. (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Making of 'The Young Ones' as Self
- The Double Life of Saki as Self
2006
- The One Show as Self
- The Thief Lord as Barbarossa
- Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
- When Comedy Changed Forever as Self
2005
- A Bear's Tail
- The Roots of Monty Python as Self
- The Comic Strip - A Retrospective as Self
2004
- Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
- Blood Matters
- The Legend of the Tamworth Two as Newspaper Editor
- Bottom Mindless Violence as Billy Balowski / Jerzei Balowski / Brian Damage (archive footage)
2003
2002
- Tipping the Velvet as Charles Frobisher
2001
- Richard & Judy as Self
2000
- Arabian Nights as BacBac
- Don't Walk as Uncle Henry
1999
- Bremner, Bird and Fortune as Pope John Paul II
- Swing as Mighty Mac
1998
- Parkinson as Self
- Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
- What's a Carry On? as Achmed (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
- The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Puppeteer
- Renford Rejects
- Two Minutes as Bernie
- Hospital! as X Ray Operator
- Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest as Beluga
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
- Reckless Kelly as Major Wib
- Selling Hitler as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
- Curaçao as Seemuller
- Rubbish, King of the Jumble as Rubbish (voice)
- I Was That Monster as Himself
- Queen of the Wild Frontier as Inspector
1992
- Carry On Columbus as Achmed
- Red Nose of Courage as Dad
1991
- Selling Hitler as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
- Meeting Venus as Von Schneider (dubbing - voice only) (uncredited)
- Amnesty International's Big 30 as Self
- 'Itch as Rittblatt
1990
- Have I Got News for You as Self
- The Gravy Train as Vlad Milcic
- Les Dogs as Bride's Father
- Spaghetti Hoops as Mog
- Night Voice as Clarence Flamer
1989
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Sultan
- Just Like That! as Self
1988
- Alexei Sayle's Stuff
- The Strike as Paul
- Jake's Journey as Head torturer
- The Love Child as The Voices
- Didn't You Kill My Brother? as Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
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
- ScreenPlay as Clarence Flamer
- Lovejoy as Freddy Reeve
- Solarbabies as Malice
- Whoops Apocalypse as Alexei Sayle in a Hawaiian Shirt
1985
- The Bride as Magar
- The Supergrass as Motorbike Cop
- Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks as DJ
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle as Lavrenti
- Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain as John Bull
1984
1983
- Gorky Park as Golodkin
- The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video as Self
1982
- The Young Ones as The Balowski Family
- The Comic Strip Presents... as Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
- Whoops Apocalypse as Commisar Solzhenitsyn
- O.T.T.
- The Secret Policeman's Other Ball as Self
- The Private Life of the Ford Cortina as Self - Presenter
1981
- Wolcott as Speaker in Market
- The Comic Strip
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.