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Derek Robert Nimmo (19 September 1930 – 24 February 1999) was an English character actor, producer and author. He was particularly associated with upper class "silly-ass" roles, and clerical roles.
Nimmo was born in Liverpool, Lancashire 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. 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"), and in the comedy film One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (as "Lord Southmere"), as well as appearing in the James Bond spoof film Casino Royale.
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). 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). 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.
Derek Nimmo was incredibly popular here in New Zealand, thanks to his starring role in the series Please Sir. A genuinely odd and funny British individual, this short 1979 interview encapsulates everything that NZ audiences found so endearing in this eccentric actor and comedian...
Kenneth Williams hosts the 21st April 1986 edition of Wogan with guests Derek Nimmo, Janet Brown and Norman Parkinson
With Robertson Hare.
I Can't Believe That Gerry Marsden From (Gerry & The Pacemakers) Made This Record ?.....A-Side From 1968 And Its From The London Show (Charlie Girl)
BBC 1977 featured comedian Derek Nimmo. Fully restored to original.
'Mate you look so bloody boring I can't believe it' Hah classic.
Hosted by Terry Wogan. Guests - David Hamilton, June Whitfield, Derek Nimmo, Wendy Richard, Kenny Everett & Sally James. Broadcast - 10th September 1981.
A man who recently inherited a fortune drops dead in the middle of his speech after the annual family dinner on Christmas Eve. There are six suspects - but which has the strongest motive? The sleuths are Wendy Craig, Leslie Crowther, Patrick Mower and Derek Nimmo.
Please subscribe my channel A sequel to the late 1960s series 'Oh, Brother!'
Part 1 of 'Drake's Journey', a story of addiction and struggles with mental health on Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Produced by Adam Nimmo Camera and co-produced by Gary Hampton Co-produced by Derek Forgie
Part 2 of 'Drake's Journey', a story of addiction and struggles with mental health on Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Produced by Adam Nimmo Camera and co-produced by Gary Hampton Co-produced by Derek Forgie
Kenneth Williams hosts the 21st April 1986 edition of Wogan with guests Derek Nimmo, Janet Brown and Norman Parkinson
With Robertson Hare.
Please subscribe my channel A sequel to the late 1960s series 'Oh, Brother!'
Please subscribe my channel A sequel to the late 1960s series 'Oh, Brother!'
Classic British TV Comedy With Derek Nimmo and William Mervyn My Apologies if it freezes at the end, It is the end and you only miss the closing credits
A man who recently inherited a fortune drops dead in the middle of his speech after the annual family dinner on Christmas Eve. There are six suspects - but which has the strongest motive? The sleuths are Wendy Craig, Leslie Crowther, Patrick Mower and Derek Nimmo.
First aired on the 22nd December 1967. Nicholas Parsons presents with Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Wilma Ewart and Beryl Reid.
Hosted by Terry Wogan. Guests - David Hamilton, June Whitfield, Derek Nimmo, Wendy Richard, Kenny Everett & Sally James. Broadcast - 10th September 1981.
Derek Nimmo was incredibly popular here in New Zealand, thanks to his starring role in the series Please Sir. A genuinely odd and funny British individual, this short 1979 interview encapsulates everything that NZ audiences found so endearing in this eccentric actor and comedian...
Kenneth Williams hosts the 21st April 1986 edition of Wogan with guests Derek Nimmo, Janet Brown and Norman Parkinson
'Mate you look so bloody boring I can't believe it' Hah classic.
I Can't Believe That Gerry Marsden From (Gerry & The Pacemakers) Made This Record ?.....A-Side From 1968 And Its From The London Show (Charlie Girl)
First aired on the 22nd December 1967. Nicholas Parsons presents with Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Wilma Ewart and Beryl Reid.
BBC 1977 featured comedian Derek Nimmo. Fully restored to original.
Derek Nimmo was incredibly popular here in New Zealand, thanks to his starring role in the series Please Sir. A genuinely odd and funny British individual, this short 1979 interview encapsulates everything that NZ audiences found so endearing in this eccentric actor and comedian...
Kenneth Williams hosts the 21st April 1986 edition of Wogan with guests Derek Nimmo, Janet Brown and Norman Parkinson
With Robertson Hare.
I Can't Believe That Gerry Marsden From (Gerry & The Pacemakers) Made This Record ?.....A-Side From 1968 And Its From The London Show (Charlie Girl)
BBC 1977 featured comedian Derek Nimmo. Fully restored to original.
'Mate you look so bloody boring I can't believe it' Hah classic.
Hosted by Terry Wogan. Guests - David Hamilton, June Whitfield, Derek Nimmo, Wendy Richard, Kenny Everett & Sally James. Broadcast - 10th September 1981.
A man who recently inherited a fortune drops dead in the middle of his speech after the annual family dinner on Christmas Eve. There are six suspects - but which has the strongest motive? The sleuths are Wendy Craig, Leslie Crowther, Patrick Mower and Derek Nimmo.
Please subscribe my channel A sequel to the late 1960s series 'Oh, Brother!'
Part 1 of 'Drake's Journey', a story of addiction and struggles with mental health on Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Produced by Adam Nimmo Camera and co-produced by Gary Hampton Co-produced by Derek Forgie
Part 2 of 'Drake's Journey', a story of addiction and struggles with mental health on Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Produced by Adam Nimmo Camera and co-produced by Gary Hampton Co-produced by Derek Forgie
With Robertson Hare.
Blackness, fills the sight I see,
Destruction, malignancy.
Intense pain, ripping through my veins,
Try so hard but this enemy remains.
Demonic passion, you can't dismiss,
Bleak depression, you reminisce.
Enforce the grip, on your life,
Try to remove it, with a knife.
Face your dark enemy.
Face your dark enemy.
Infestation, you can; t see,
Realisation is yet to be.
Infection, pumping through,
They don't know, haven't got a clue.
Remember what it was like before.
It grabbed you, blacked out all you saw.
Conspiracy, inside your head,
Until you think you're already dead.
Face your...
The pressure's on, time ticks away,
Immobilized, you try to delay.
Memories gone, you're unaware.
Your will to live replaced by despair,
Screams of pain you emanate.
Have no faith you're full of hate.
Helpless now, so full of fear,
No point in this, your end is here.