Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 16, 1918
Died
Feb 27, 2002
Place of Birth
Ahmed Nagar, India
Credits
116 titles
Spike Milligan
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
Book
Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive
Self (archive footage)
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Self (archive footage)
Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
Self (archive footage)
The Last Impresario
Self (archive footage)
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
Himself
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Self (archive footage)
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 - (Archival)
The Best of Spike Milligan
Self
Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute
Self (archive footage)
Puckoon
Novel
Spike Milligan: Return of a Legend
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
Self (Archive footage)
Badjelly the Witch
Narrator
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
Himself
Wolves, Witches and Giants
Narrator
In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett
Self
Takin' Over the Asylum
Himself
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
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 (archive material)
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