John Cleeseborn 1939
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Actor
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Biography
John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s he became a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. In the mid 1970s, Cleese and his first wife Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Later, he co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. He also starred in Clockwise, and has appeared in many other films, including two James Bond films, two Harry Potter films, and three Shrek films. With Yes Minister writer Antony Jay he co-founded the production company Video Arts, responsible for making entertaining training films. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Cleese, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Credits
2018
Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy • Music
as Fairy Godmother / Executioner (voice)
2016
Comedy • Documentary
as Basil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012
Animation • Comedy
as Various (voice)
2007
Documentary
as Adolf Hitler / Basil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Adventure • Fantasy
as Nearly Headless Nick (Sir Nicholas)
2001
Animation • Comedy • Family • Horror
as Narrator (“Mickey's Mechanical House") (uncredited)
2001
Animation • Comedy • Family
as Narrator (segment 'The Nutcracker') (voice)
2000
Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy • Science Fiction
as The Giant Alien (voice)
1991
Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Western
as Cat R. Waul (voice)
1989
Comedy • TV Movie
as Self / Various Characters
1979
Comedy
as Wise Man #1 / Reg / Jewish Official / First Centurion / Deadly Dirk / Arthur
1977
Comedy • Crime • Mystery • Thriller
as Sherlock Holmes
1975
Adventure • Comedy • Fantasy
as Second Swallow-Savvy Guard / The Black Knight / Peasant 3 / Sir Launcelot the Brave / Taunting French Guard / Tim the Enchanter
1971
Comedy
as Announcer / Hungarian Citizen / self - Defence Teacher / Sir George Head / Policeman / Interviewer / Mr. Praline / Second General / Christopher Columbus / Mungo the Cook / Bank Robber / Accountant #2 (falling past the window) / Vocational Guidance Counselor / Vivian Smith Smythe Smith / Mountie / Town Guild Lady
2010
Comedy • Documentary
as Self
2005
Comedy
as Noted Behavioral Scientist / Noted Doctor / Leading Social Scientist / Leading Orthopedic Surgeon
