Derek Nimmo
Nimmo was born in Liverpool, Lancashire,[1] and was educated at Booker Avenue Infants and Junior School as well as Quarry Bank High School and began his stage career at the Hippodrome Theatre in Bolton, Lancashire.[1][2] It was during this time that he made a cameo appearance in the Beatles' film, A Hard Day's Night (in which he appeared as "Leslie Jackson", a magician with doves). He appeared in a number of British films and television series, as aristocrats, including starring roles in the television comedy series The World of Wooster (as "Bingo Little"),[2] and in the comedy film One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing[1] (as "Lord Southmere"), as well as appearing in the James Bond spoof film Casino Royale.[2] Derek Nimmo made his name as the Reverend Mervyn Noote in the British sitcom All Gas and Gaiters (1966). At the time it was considered rather controversial because the main characters were senior churchmen (the Bishop, his chaplain Noote and the Archdeacon) who got into various scrapes as a result of their general incompetence. By the time the series finished, Nimmo was identified with the stereotype of a traditional British clergyman and he went on to play a bungling monk in another BBC clerical sitcom, Oh, Brother! and its sequel series Oh, Father! (now a Roman Catholic priest).[3] Another sitcom in which he appeared in a starring role as a clergyman, many years later, was Hell's Bells (by now promoted to a dean).[2] He also appeared as the Reverend Jonathan Green in a television production of Cluedo. He became so well known for his clerical parody that, in the 1975 The Goodies' episode "Wacky Wales", a "team of Derek Nimmos" played in a spoof "Ecclesiastical Rugby Sevens" competition.
Known For
Credits
- 1996 · Dennis the Menace and Gnasher as Mr. Smiley (voice)
- 1990 · Cluedo as Reverend Green
- 1990 · Plunder as
- 1986 · Hell's Bells as
- 1985 · Neighbours as
- 1982 · Countdown as
- 1982 · Third Time Lucky as George Hutchenson
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1979 · Blankety Blank as
- 1978 · Life Begins at Forty as Chris Bunting
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1975 · My Honourable Mrs as
- 1975 · One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as Lord Southmere
- 1973 · Oh, Father! as
- 1972 · Sunstruck as
- 1972 · The Bruce McMouse Show as Swot McMouse (voice)
- 1968 · Oh, Brother! as
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1967 · Sorry I'm Single as
- 1967 · Casino Royale as Hadley
- 1967 · Blandings Castle as
- 1967 · Mister Ten Per Cent as Tony
- 1966 · All Gas and Gaiters as
- 1965 · The Liquidator as Fly
- 1965 · The World of Wooster as
- 1965 · The Bed-Sit Girl as
- 1965 · Coast of Skeletons as Tom Hamilton
- 1965 · Joey Boy as Lt Hope
- 1964 · Murder Ahoy as Sub-Lt. Eric Humbert
- 1964 · A Hard Day's Night as Leslie Jackson (uncredited)
- 1964 · The System as James
- 1964 · Hot Enough for June as Fred
- 1964 · The Bargee as Dr. Scott
- 1963 · Tamahine as Tim Clove
- 1963 · Heavens Above! as DG Assistant
- 1963 · The Small World of Sammy Lee as ‘Rembrandt’
- 1962 · The Amorous Prawn as Pvt. Willie Maltravers
- 1962 · Go to Blazes as Fish Fancier
- 1962 · It's Trad, Dad! as Head Waiter
- 1962 · The Scales of Justice as Diner
- 1960 · The Millionairess as 3rd Secretary (uncredited)
- 1956 · The Buccaneers as Lord Winrod