Alexei Sayle
Acting
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Acting Credits
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...
Known For
Filmography
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026
as Self
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke
2025
as Self
Bottom: Exposed
2024
as Self
Censoring Palestine
2024
as Self
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024
as Self - Guest
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023
as Narrator
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
as Self
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
as Self
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
as Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
as Self
How to Build a Girl
2020
as Karl Marx
Mandy
2020
as Darren Dugdale
Sometimes Always Never
2019
as Bill
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
Gloves Off
2017
as Algy
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
as Self - Panellist
Red Top
2016
as Colin Goodman
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014
as Self
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
as Self
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
as Self
For the Love of Cars
2014
as Himself
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
as Planet Jimmy (voice)
The Story of Music Hall
2011
as Self
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
as Self - Participant
The Michael Ball Show
2010
as Self
Horrible Histories
2009
as Dr. Ushma
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
2008
as Narrator
My Dad Was a Communist
2008
as Self
Q&A
2008
as Self - Panellist
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
as D.J. (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Double Life of Saki
2007
as Self
Tapping the Wire
2007
as Self
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
as Self
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
as Self
The Thief Lord
2006
as Barbarossa
The One Show
2006
as Self
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
as Self
The Roots of Monty Python
2005
as Self
A Bear's Tail
2005
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
as Self
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
as Newspaper Editor
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
as Billy Balowski / Jerzei Balowski / Brian Damage (archive footage)
Blood Matters
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Dr Maverick
Strike: When Britain Went to War
2003
Keen Eddie
2003
Spine Chillers
2003
as Graham
Tipping the Velvet
2002
as Charles Frobisher
Richard & Judy
2001
as Self
Don't Walk
2000
as Uncle Henry
Arabian Nights
2000
as BacBac
Swing
1999
as Mighty Mac
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
as Pope John Paul II
What's a Carry On?
1998
as Achmed (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Two Minutes
1997
as Bernie
Hospital!
1997
as X Ray Operator
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
as Beluga
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
as Puppeteer
Renford Rejects
1997
Moonlighters
1996
as Narrator (voice)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
as Self
Sorry About Last Night
1995
as Andy Carolides
The Greatest F***King Show on TV
1994
as Self
Room 101
1994
as Self
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994
Paris
1994
as Alain Degout
Reckless Kelly
1993
as Major Wib
Selling Hitler
1993
as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Queen of the Wild Frontier
1993
as Inspector
Curaçao
1993
as Seemuller
I Was That Monster
1993
as Himself
Rubbish, King of the Jumble
1993
as Rubbish (voice)
Carry On Columbus
1992
as Achmed
Red Nose of Courage
1992
as Dad
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
as Self
'Itch
1991
as Rittblatt
Meeting Venus
1991
as Von Schneider (dubbing - voice only) (uncredited)
Selling Hitler
1991
as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Les Dogs
1990
as Bride's Father
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
as Mog
Night Voice
1990
as Clarence Flamer
The Gravy Train
1990
as Vlad Milcic
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
as Sultan
Just Like That!
1989
as Self
4 Play
1989
as Rittblatt
Jake's Journey
1988
as Head torturer
The Love Child
1988
as The Voices
The Strike
1988
as Paul
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988
as Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
Up Line
1987
as Melvin Coombes
Siesta
1987
as Cabbie
Mister Corbett's Ghost
1987
as Toll Gate Keeper
The Lenny Henry Show
1987
Solarbabies
1986
as Malice
Whoops Apocalypse
1986
as Alexei Sayle in a Hawaiian Shirt
Lovejoy
1986
as Freddy Reeve
Casualty
1986
as Anton Malinovsky
ScreenPlay
1986
as Clarence Flamer
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985
as John Bull
The Bride
1985
as Magar
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985
as DJ
The Supergrass
1985
as Motorbike Cop
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985
as Lavrenti
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
as Frank
Gorky Park
1983
as Golodkin
The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
1983
as Self
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982
as Self - Presenter
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982
as Self
The Young Ones
1982
as The Balowski Family
O.T.T.
1982
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Paul
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Mog
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Bride's Father
Whoops Apocalypse
1982
as Commisar Solzhenitsyn
The Comic Strip
1981
as Compere
Wolcott
1981
as Speaker in Market
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
Great Railway Journeys
1980
as Self - Presenter
Repeater
1979
as 2nd Detective
Question Time
1979
as Himself - Panellist
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
as Self
Doctor Who
1963
as D.J.