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Spike Milligan
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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 spen…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2025
Badjelly
TV show Book
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2022
Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
The Last Impresario
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
Movie Himself
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2010
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
Gaybo Laughs Back
Movie Self
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2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Movie Adolf Hitler / Pakistani Dalek (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2007
The Very Best of Spike Milligan
Movie Self/Various
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2005
I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan
Movie Self - (Archival)
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2004
The Best of Spike Milligan
Movie Self
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2002
Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Puckoon
Movie Novel
- 2001
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2001
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
Movie Self (Archive footage)
More credits
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2000
Badjelly the Witch
Movie Narrator
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2000
The Unknown Peter Sellers
Movie Self
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2000
Gormenghast
TV show De'Ath
- 2000
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1997
The Banana
Movie Self
- 1997
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1996
Spike
Movie Self
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1996
An Evening with Spike Milligan
Movie Himself
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1995
Wolves, Witches and Giants
TV show Narrator
- 1995
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1994
Takin' Over the Asylum
TV show Himself
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1994
Room 101
TV show Self
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1993
The Big Freeze
Movie Der Schauspieler
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1992
Sellers' Best
Movie Self
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1990
Have I Got News for You
TV show Self
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1990
Plunder
TV show Self
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1989
Just Like That!
Movie Self
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1988
The Ratties
TV show Narrator (voice)
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1988
You Bet!
TV show
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1988
Mr. H Is Late
Movie
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1985
Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol
Movie the Ghost of Marley
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1985
In Sickness and in Health
TV show Fancy Fred
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1985
Television
TV show
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1985
Super Gran
TV show Zoo Keeper
