Acting · Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK · Born August 7, 1952
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.
MovieThey Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026
as Self
MovieNot Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke
2025
as Self
Censoring Palestine
2024
as Self
TVLegends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024
as Self - Guest
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
2024
as Narrator (voice)
MovieBottom: Exposed
2024
as Self
Movieimagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
as Self
MovieThe Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
as Self
MovieOh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023
as Narrator
MovieThe Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
as Self
MovieRobin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
as Self
MovieHow to Build a Girl
2020
as Karl Marx
TVMandy
2020
as Darren Dugdale
MovieSometimes Always Never
2019
as Bill
MovieHow The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
MovieGloves Off
2017
as Algy
TVRichard Osman's House of Games
2017
as Self - Panellist
MovieRed Top
2016
as Colin Goodman
MovieRik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014
as Self
TVAlan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
as Self
Movie50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
as Self
TVFor the Love of Cars
2014
as Himself
Movie30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
MovieThe Story of Music Hall
2011
as Self
TVCelebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
as Self - Participant
MovieThe Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
as Planet Jimmy (voice)
The Michael Ball Show
2010
as Self
TVHorrible Histories
2009
as Dr. Ushma
MovieMy Dad Was a Communist
2008
as Self
TVQ&A
2008
as Self - Panellist
MovieThe Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
2008
as Narrator
MovieThe Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
as Self
MovieTapping the Wire
2007
as Self
MovieHitler: The Comedy Years
2007
as D.J. (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Double Life of Saki
2007
as Self
TVThe One Show
2006
as Self
TVRob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
MovieWhen Comedy Changed Forever
2006
as Self
MovieThe Thief Lord
2006
as Barbarossa
MovieThe Roots of Monty Python
2005
as Self
TVA Bear's Tail
2005
MovieThe Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
as Self
MovieRemember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
as Self
MovieBottom Mindless Violence
2004
as Billy Balowski / Jerzei Balowski / Brian Damage (archive footage)
Blood Matters
2004
MovieThe Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
as Newspaper Editor
TVSpine Chillers
2003
as Graham
TVKeen Eddie
2003
Strike: When Britain Went to War
2003
TVTipping the Velvet
2002
as Charles Frobisher
TVRichard & Judy
2001
as Self
TVArabian Nights
2000
as BacBac
MovieDon't Walk
2000
as Uncle Henry
TVBremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
as Pope John Paul II
MovieSwing
1999
as Mighty Mac
MovieWhat's a Carry On?
1998
as Achmed (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVAlexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998
TVParkinson
1998
as Self
TVThe History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
as Puppeteer
MovieTwo Minutes
1997
as Bernie
MovieHospital!
1997
as X Ray Operator
TVRenford Rejects
1997
MovieRhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
as Beluga
TVNever Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
as Self
MovieMoonlighters
1996
as Narrator (voice)
MovieSorry About Last Night
1995
as Andy Carolides
TVParis
1994
as Alain Degout
TVRoom 101
1994
as Self
TVThe Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994
TVThe All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
MovieI Was That Monster
1993
as Himself
TVRubbish, King of the Jumble
1993
as Rubbish (voice)
MovieCuraçao
1993
as Seemuller
MovieQueen of the Wild Frontier
1993
as Inspector
MovieSelling Hitler
1993
as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
MovieReckless Kelly
1993
as Major Wib
MovieCarry On Columbus
1992
as Achmed
MovieRed Nose of Courage
1992
as Dad
MovieAmnesty International's Big 30
1991
as Self
MovieMeeting Venus
1991
as Von Schneider (dubbing - voice only) (uncredited)
TVSelling Hitler
1991
as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Movie'Itch
1991
as Rittblatt
TVHave I Got News for You
1990
as Self
MovieLes Dogs
1990
as Bride's Father
Night Voice
1990
as Clarence Flamer
TVThe Gravy Train
1990
as Vlad Milcic
MovieSpaghetti Hoops
1990
as Mog
4 Play
1989
as Rittblatt
MovieIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
as Sultan
MovieJust Like That!
1989
as Self
TVAlexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
MovieThe Love Child
1988
as The Voices
MovieDidn't You Kill My Brother?
1988
as Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
MovieThe Strike
1988
as Paul
MovieJake's Journey
1988
as Head torturer
MovieMr. Corbett's Ghost
1987
as Toll Gate Keeper
MovieSiesta
1987
as Cabbie
TVThe Lenny Henry Show
1987
MovieUp Line
1987
as Melvin Coombes
MovieSolarbabies
1986
as Malice
TVCasualty
1986
as Anton Malinovsky
TVScreenPlay
1986
as Clarence Flamer
MovieWhoops Apocalypse
1986
as Alexei Sayle in a Hawaiian Shirt
TVLovejoy
1986
as Freddy Reeve
MovieThe Supergrass
1985
as Motorbike Cop
MovieThe Bride
1985
as Magar
MovieLigmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985
as John Bull
MovieDoctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985
as DJ
MovieThe Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985
as Lavrenti
MovieGive Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
as Frank
MovieGorky Park
1983
as Golodkin
MovieThe Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
1983
as Self
TVThe Young Ones
1982
as The Balowski Family
TVThe Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Carl Moss/Sterling Moss
TVWhoops Apocalypse
1982
as Commisar Solzhenitsyn
MovieThe Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982
as Self
MovieThe Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982
as Self - Presenter
TVO.T.T.
1982
TVWolcott
1981
as Speaker in Market
MovieThe Comic Strip
1981
TVGreat Railway Journeys
1980
as Self - Presenter
TVBoom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
TVQuestion Time
1979
as Himself - Panellist
MovieRepeater
1979
as 2nd Detective
TVThe Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
as Self
TVDoctor Who
1963
as D.J.
