Alexei Sayle
Born in Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK — Aug 07 1952
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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 comed…
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Doctor Who
D.J.
Casualty
Anton Malinovsky
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self
Horrible Histories
Dr. Ushma
Lovejoy
Freddy Reeve
The Comic Strip Presents...
Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
Mandy
Darren Dugdale
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Sultan
The Young Ones
The Balowski Family
Keen Eddie
Arabian Nights
BacBac
Spine Chillers
Graham
The Michael Ball Show
Self
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Puppeteer
Wolcott
Speaker in Market
Renford Rejects
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Tipping the Velvet
Charles Frobisher
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter
Whoops Apocalypse
Commisar Solzhenitsyn
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
Pope John Paul II
A Bear's Tail
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
The Bride
Magar
Selling Hitler
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
The Lenny Henry Show
Sometimes Always Never
Bill
Gorky Park
Golodkin
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
Amnesty International's Big 30
Self
The Thief Lord
Barbarossa
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
Self
For the Love of Cars
Himself
Solarbabies
Malice
Selling Hitler
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
Carry On Columbus
Achmed
The Supergrass
Motorbike Cop
How to Build a Girl
Karl Marx
What's a Carry On?
Achmed (archive footage) (uncredited)
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
Whoops Apocalypse
Alexei Sayle in a Hawaiian Shirt
Up Line
Melvin Coombes
Red Top
Colin Goodman
Jake's Journey
Head torturer
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Self
Meeting Venus
Von Schneider (dubbing - voice only) (uncredited)
Reckless Kelly
Major Wib
'Itch
Rittblatt
Les Dogs
Bride's Father
Hitler: The Comedy Years
D.J. (archive footage) (uncredited)
Curaçao
Seemuller
The Gravy Train
Vlad Milcic
Siesta
Cabbie
Hospital!
X Ray Operator
Night Voice
Clarence Flamer
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self
30 Years of Comic Strip
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
Self - Guest
Bottom: Exposed
Self
The Roots of Monty Python
Self
O.T.T.
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
DJ
The Love Child
The Voices
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Toll Gate Keeper
When Comedy Changed Forever
Self
Gloves Off
Algy
Bottom Mindless Violence
Billy Balowski / Jerzei Balowski / Brian Damage (archive footage)
Spaghetti Hoops
Mog
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Self
Paris
Alain Degout
The Strike
Paul
Tapping the Wire
Self
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
Swing
Mighty Mac
The Itch of the Golden Nit
Planet Jimmy (voice)
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Self
Queen of the Wild Frontier
Inspector
Red Nose of Courage
Dad
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Lavrenti
Sorry About Last Night
Andy Carolides
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Self
The Comic Strip
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
John Bull
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Self
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Newspaper Editor
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Self
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Frank
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
Beluga
Two Minutes
Bernie
Censoring Palestine
Self
The Story of Music Hall
Self
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
Self
Just Like That!
Self
Don't Walk
Uncle Henry
The Double Life of Saki
Self
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
Narrator
My Dad Was a Communist
Self
I Was That Monster
Himself
Blood Matters
Rubbish, King of the Jumble
Rubbish (voice)
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
Self - Presenter
Moonlighters
Narrator (voice)
Repeater
2nd Detective
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
Narrator
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
Narrator (voice)
The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
Self