Acting credits
117
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Alexei Sayle
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 72Series: 45Crew credits: 7
TMDB ID: 746
IMDb ID: nm0768488
Known for: Acting
Born: August 7, 1952
Age: 73
Place of birth: Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1963 - 2026
Years active: 64
Average TMDB rating: 6.41
Wikidata: Q970287
Also known as
Alexei David Sayle • Alexy Syale
Other jobs
Writer (7)
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Alexei Sayle.
as Self
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026 • Movie
as Self
Bottom: Exposed
2024 • Movie
as Self
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023 • Movie
as Self
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023 • Movie
as Narrator
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023 • Movie
as Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022 • Movie
as Self
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022 • Movie
as Karl Marx
How to Build a Girl
2020 • Movie
as Bill
Sometimes Always Never
2019 • Movie
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018 • Movie
as Algy
Gloves Off
2017 • Movie
as Colin Goodman
Red Top
2016 • Movie
as Self
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014 • Movie
as Self
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014 • Movie
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012 • Movie
as Self
The Story of Music Hall
2011 • Movie
as Planet Jimmy (voice)
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011 • Movie
as Self
My Dad Was a Communist
2008 • Movie
as Narrator
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
2008 • Movie
as Self
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007 • Movie
as Self
Tapping the Wire
2007 • Movie
as D.J. (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007 • Movie
as Self
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006 • Movie
as Barbarossa
The Thief Lord
2006 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Alexei Sayle.
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024 • Series
as Darren Dugdale • 1 eps
Mandy
2020 • Series
as Self - Panellist • 5 eps
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014 • Series
as Himself • 1 eps
For the Love of Cars
2014 • Series
as Self - Participant • 1 eps
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 • Series
as Dr. Ushma • 1 eps
Horrible Histories
2009 • Series
as Self - Panellist • 1 eps
Q&A
2008 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The One Show
2006 • Series
1 eps
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006 • Series
1 eps
A Bear's Tail
2005 • Series
as Graham • 1 eps
Spine Chillers
2003 • Series
3 eps
Keen Eddie
2003 • Series
as Charles Frobisher • 2 eps
Tipping the Velvet
2002 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Richard & Judy
2001 • Series
as BacBac • 2 eps
Arabian Nights
2000 • Series
as Pope John Paul II • 89 eps
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999 • Series
6 eps
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Parkinson
1998 • Series
as Puppeteer • 1 eps
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 • Series
52 eps
Renford Rejects
1997 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996 • Series
as Alain Degout • 6 eps
Paris
1994 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Room 101
1994 • Series