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