Trivia

Following a fall down stairs at his home on 2 December 1998, he spent the last few weeks of his life in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, initially in a coma.

He was so convincing as a monk on Oh Brother! (1968) that he was once arrested on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica, by the Vatican Police after being seen by a shocked nun with his arm around a girl.

Derek went to Quarry Bank School in Liverpool, later to be better known because of John Lennon.

Received a special mention in The Goodies episode Wacky Wales (1975), where there was a special team comprised exclusively of 'Derek Nimmos' in the Rugby Union (football) game of Ecclesiastical Sevens--emphasising his special religious-oriented roles in television programs such as Oh Brother! (1968), Oh, Father! (1973), and All Gas and Gaiters (1966), among others.

When struggling to earn a living as an young actor, he and his new wife Patricia lived in a caravan that was parked in a car park just off the Edgware Road in London's West End. However, when he was touring he was able to drive a 1937 Buick car he had bought for just £37.

Previous occupations before achieving fame include being a hamburger-stand attendant, puppeteer, roller-skating act with his wife, an artist's agent managing singer Al Martino, and voicer of characters in the children's programme 'Toy Town'.

Was for over two decades a regular on BBC radio 4 in "Just a Minute".

Played his first clergyman in the play "See How They Run" at the West End.

A memorial service was held for him at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden on 27th May 1999.

He was in Repertory at Bolton in 1951.

Father of Amanda, Timothy, and Piers.

First job was at the Hippodrome at Bolton in England, UK

He has appeared in many West End plays.

One of the 30-plus founders of the Theatre of Comedy in 1983.

At one point worked with his wife doing comedy stunts.

About 1956 he was at the Prince of Wales Theatre London as part of a roller skating act he and his wife were picked from the audience, He would be swung around so fast that his trousers would come off.

At one point he and his wife lived in a caravan in a car park on the Edgeware Road in London and took it with them wherever they played,.

In the stage musical Charlie Girl in Londons West End.

In the films The Amorous Prawn, Heavens Above and The Bargee.