Spike Milligan
- Acting
- April 16, 1918 · Ahmed Nagar, India
- February 27, 2002
Biography
Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan KBE (April 16, 1918 – February 27, 2002) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier, and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. He was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles. Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall. He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse, much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959). After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Known for
Filmography
- Badjelly · Novel
- Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive · Self
- The Ghost of Peter Sellers · Self
- Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace · Self
- The Last Impresario · Self
- The Unforgettable Spike Milligan · Self
- The Unforgettable Harry Secombe · Self
- Gaybo Laughs Back · Self
- Hitler: The Comedy Years · Adolf Hitler / Pakistani Dalek (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Very Best of Spike Milligan · Self/Various
- I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan · Self
- The Best of Spike Milligan · Self, Writer
- Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute · Self
- Puckoon · Novel
- Spike Milligan: Return of a Legend
- The Paranormal Peter Sellers · Self
- Badjelly the Witch · Narrator, Self
- The Unknown Peter Sellers · Self
- Gormenghast · De'Ath
- The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
- The Banana · Self
- Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot · Self
- Spike · Self
- An Evening with Spike Milligan · Self
- Wolves, Witches and Giants · Narrator
- In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett · Self
- Takin' Over the Asylum · Self
- Room 101 · Self
- The Big Freeze · Der Schauspieler
- Sellers' Best · Self
- Have I Got News for You · Self
- Plunder · Self
- Just Like That! · Self
- The Ratties · Narrator (Voice)
- You Bet!
- Mr. H Is Late
- Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol · the Ghost of Marley
- In Sickness and in Health · Fancy Fred
- Television
- Super Gran · Zoo Keeper
- Comic Roots: Michael Palin · Self
- Yellowbeard · Flunkie
- Group Madness · Self
- There's A Lot Of It About
- Wogan · Self
- The Kenny Everett Television Show · The Ghost of Marley
- Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers · Self
- History of the World: Part I · Monsieur Rimbaud - The French Revolution
- Life of Brian · Spike
- The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979 · Self
- Blankety Blank
- The Marti Caine Show
- The Hound of the Baskervilles · Policeman
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste · Crumble
- Moonshadow · Narrator
- Fantastic Animation Festival · Narrator: "Moonshadow"
- Dot and the Kangaroo · Mr. Platypus (Voice)
- Everyman
- Barney · Hawker
- The Muppet Show · Self
- The Melting Pot · Creator
- Tell Me Another · Self
- The Great McGonagall · William Topaz McGonagall, Screenplay
- Man About the House · Self
- Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy · Self
- The Cherry Picker · Mr. Lal
- The Three Musketeers · M. Bonancieux
- Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World · Dr. Harz
- Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall · Leo Milligan, Novel
- Ghost in the Noonday Sun · Bill Bombay
- Rentadick · a Customs officer
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Gryphon
- Right to Work March
- The Adventures of Barry McKenzie · Landlord
- Milligan In...
- Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here · Self
- The Last Goon Show of All · Self, Writer
- The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins · Tramp (segment "Sloth"), Writer
- Six Dates with Barker · Writer
- Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town · E.W. Mackney