Spike Milligan - Films

Films

  • Let's Go Crazy (1951), played Eccles and a Waiter in this short, which also featured Peter Sellers and Wallas Eaton
  • Penny Points to Paradise (1951) played Spike Donnelly. Features the later Goons, Alfred Marks and Bill Kerr.
  • Down Among the Z Men (1952), played Eccles in a black-and-white secret agent comedy with all the Goons, including early member Michael Bentine and original announcer Andrew Timothy.
  • A Kid for Two Farthings (1955), played an Indian with a grey beard (uncredited)
  • The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn (1956), a Goon-like 2-reel comedy ("Mukkinese" = "mucky knees").
  • The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film (1960), a silent comedy, Richard Lester's debut film.
  • Watch Your Stern (1960), played Ranjid, the first civilian electrician.
  • The Invasion Quartet (1961), he plays a leader of commandos, also featuring Bill Travers and John Le Mesurier.
  • What a Whooper (1961), played a tramp. The film starred Adam Faith.
  • Country postman Harold Petts in Postman's Knock (1962).
  • The Bed-Sitting Room (1969), post-apocalyptic comedy with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and also Arthur Lowe; written by John Antrobus based on the Milligan/Antrobus play. Milligan had a small role as a postman named "Mate", which was also the name of a Goon Show character.
  • The traffic warden who eats the ticket in The Magic Christian (1969).
  • The court jester in Cucumber Castle (1970).
  • The Ruling Class (1972 Peter O'Toole black comedy.) Cameo as traffic policeman in opening titles.
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) as Gryphon.
  • Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall (1972), a film of the first volume of his autobiography. Spike played the part of his father. The role of the young Spike Milligan was played by Jim Dale.
  • The decrepit manager of a seedy London hotel in Bruce Beresford's The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972).
  • Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World (1973) children's comedy.
  • Monsieur Bonacieux, husband of Madame Bonacieux (Raquel Welch) in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers (1973).
  • Man About The House (1974) Film version of the popular TV series, playing himself at the Thames Television Studio finale.
  • The Great McGonagall (1974), untalented Scottish poet (based on William Topaz McGonagall) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.
  • The voice of Platypus in the Australian animated film Dot and the Kangaroo (1977)
  • The decrepit Geste family retainer Crumpet in The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), with Marty Feldman.
  • A policeman who briefly talks to Dr. Watson and Stapleton when they first arrive on the moors in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
  • The prophet abandoned by his flock in Life of Brian (1979).
  • Monsieur Rimbaud in History of the World, Part I (1981).
  • A royal herald flunkie who accidentally blows a spy's cover in Yellowbeard (1983).
  • "When The Sun Goes In" a film made for the solar eclipse - as himself (1999) now posted complete on YouTube.

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