John Cleese | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie (original) (raw)
Active - 1968 - Present | Birth - Oct 27, 1939 | |
John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Along with his Python co-stars Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983).
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Cleesey, Friend, John C. Cleeseberg, John Cleese Whicker, John Ecles, John Marwood Cleese, John Otto Cleese, John Spam John Spam John Spam Cleese, Kim Bread, Kurt Loggerhead, Monty Python, Montypython Flyingcircus, Nigel Farquhar-Bennett, Spitting Image, The Usual Lot
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