Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle David ( born August 7, 1952 in Liverpool, England ) is a British comedian, actor and author.

Life

Sayle was born in Liverpool and grew up there as well. His mother Molly was Lithuanian- Jewish descent and his father British. Both parents were members of the Communist Party of Great Britain, which he joined in 1968 also. After graduating from high school in Liverpool, he attended the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Sayle is married to Linda Rawsthorn since 1974. On January 3, he took with him a thousand others in the protest against the Operation Cast Lead in London part.

Career

He began his career as an MC in the London Sayle Comdeyclub The Comedy Store. In 1980 he was discovered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by producer Martin Lewis, which was then working as a manager for him. Sayle was a leading member of The Comic Strip group and operating in the London radio station Capital Radio own show called Alexei Sayle And The Fish People, for which he won a Sony Radio Award. The next few years he published several comedy albums and was with The Comic Strip group nine weeks in Australia on tour. In 1982, he was seen for the first time in a TV show.

In 1984 he wrote the song Ullo John! Gotta New Motor? , Which made ​​it into the Top 20 charts in the United Kingdom. Then Sayle appeared in many television series and films, and also became a well known voice over artist. In addition, he published two more singles: Did not You Kill My Brother? and Meanwhile in the album Panic, which parodies the cover of Michael Jackson's album Off The Wall.

In 1985, he starred in the sci -fi series Doctor Who. In 1988, he starred in the play The Tempest, which was performed at London's Old Vic Theatre, the role of Trinculo. Since the late 1980s, Sayle had three of his own sketch shows named Alexei Sayle 's Stuff ( 1988-1991), The All New Alexei Sayle Show ( 1994-1995) and Alexei Sayle 's Merry -Go-Round (1998), which were broadcast on BBC Two. For his series Stuff Sayle got an Emmy in 1989. In movies Sayle was a fictitious character actor. He has played, among other roles in films such as Gorky Park (1983) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). In 1992, he was also the last film in the Carry-on ... film series Do it again to see Columbus in the role of Achmed.

2008 Sayle presented his new three-part TV show Alexei Sayle 's Liverpool, after his home city of Liverpool was named European Capital of Culture. In addition, he is also active as an author and has published five books and two short stories.

Filmography

Works

• Train To Hell. Methuen 1984, ISBN 0-413-52460-4, with David Stafford.
• Geoffrey The Tube Train And The Fat Comedian. Graphic Novel, Methuen 1987.
• Alexei Sayle 's Great Bus Journeys Of The World. Methuen, 1989, ISBN 0-413-62670-9.
• Barcelona Plates. Sceptre, 2000, ISBN 0-340-76752-9.
• The Dog Catcher. Sceptre, 2001, ISBN 0-340-81868-9.
• Overtaken. Sceptre, 2003, ISBN 0-340-76768-5.
• The Weeping Women Hotel. Sceptre, 2006, ISBN 0-340-83121-9.
• Mister Roberts. Sceptre, 2008, ISBN 978-0-340-96155-1.
• Stalin Ate My Homework. Sceptre, 2010, ISBN 978-0-340-91957-6.