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