Biography
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.
Filmography
All 42
TV Shows 21
Movies 21
Self 4
Voice 2
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (1996)
Plunder (1990)
Hell's Bells (1986)
Neighbours (1985)
Countdown (1982)
Third Time Lucky (1982)
Wogan (1982)
Blankety Blank (1979)
Life Begins at Forty (1978)
An Audience with... (1978)
My Honourable Mrs (1975)
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
Oh, Father! (1973)
Sunstruck (1972)
The Bruce McMouse Show (1972)
One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks (1968)
Oh, Brother! (1968)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
Sorry I'm Single (1967)
Casino Royale (1967)
Blandings Castle (1967)
Mister Ten Per Cent (1967)
All Gas and Gaiters (1966)
The Liquidator (1965)
The World of Wooster (1965)
The Bed-Sit Girl (1965)
Coast of Skeletons (1965)
Joey Boy (1965)
Murder Ahoy (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
The System (1964)
The Bargee (1964)
Hot Enough for June (1964)
Tamahine (1963)
Heavens Above! (1963)
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
The Amorous Prawn (1962)
Go to Blazes (1962)
It's Trad, Dad! (1962)
The Scales of Justice (1962)
The Millionairess (1960)
The Buccaneers (1956)
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Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1930-09-19
Deathday1999-02-24 (68 years old)
Place of birthLiverpool, United Kingdom
SpousePatricia S. Brown
ChildrenAmanda Kate Victoria Nimmo, Piers James A. Nimmo, Timothy S. J. Nimmo
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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