John Cleese
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 84 |
Date of birth | October 27,1939 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Weston-super-Mare |
United Kingdom | |
Height | 196 (cm) |
Spouse | Jennifer Wade |
Books | So, Anyway. . . |
Professor at Large: The Cornell Years | |
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide | |
Monty Python's Flying Circus | |
The Pythons | |
So, Anyway... | |
Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance | |
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Screenplay | |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series | |
Children | Cynthia Cleese |
Camilla Cleese | |
Parents | Muriel Cleese |
Reg Cleese | |
Grandchildren | Olivia Solomon |
Evan Solomon | |
Alma mater | Downing College, Cambridge |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 409285 |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Time Bandits
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Clockwise
Shrek 2
Rat Race
Fierce Creatures
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Trolls
And Now for Something Completely Different
Die Another Day
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
The World Is Not Enough
At Last the 1948 Show
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Shrek the Third
Monty Python's Personal Best
The Pink Panther 2
George of the Jungle
Charlotte's Web
Silverado
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Splitting Heirs
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Erik the Viking
How to Irritate People
Absolutely Anything
Shrek Forever After
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
The Swan Princess
Winnie the Pooh
Around the World in 80 Days
The Out-of- Towners
The Great Muppet Caper
George of the Jungle 2
Valiant
Planet 51
A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Planes
Isn't She Great
The Magic Christian
Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python
Igor
Hold the Sunset
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Yellowbeard
Life of Brian
Fawlty Towers
A Fish Called Wanda
John Cleese Life story
John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report.
Early Life and Education
John cleese was born in weston-super-mare. England on october 27. 1939. He was raised in a middle-class family. With his mother muriel and father reginald being boht active in local business. He attended clifton college. An independent scholo in bristol. Where he was a member of the school s cricket team and was also in the school s drama society. He later attended downing college. Cambridge. Where he stduied law. But eventually decidde to pursue a career in comedy.Career in Comedy
John cleese first gained fame as part of the british comedy troupe monyt pythons flying circus. He co-wrote and starred in several british television shows. Including fawlty towers. Which is considered one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. He also wrtoe and starred in a number of feature films. Including a fish called wanda. Which won him an oscar nomination for best screenplay.Theatrical Performances
John cleese has also had success on the stage. He has written and starred in a number of theatrical performancesi. Ncluding the west end production of the secret policemans ball and the broadway comedy show monty python live at the hollywood bowl.Writing and Directing
John cleese has written and directed a number of television and film projects. He wrote and directed fiecre creatures. A 1997 comedy film starring jamie lee curtis and kevin kline. He also wrote and directed the 2001 film. The wolrd is not enough.Voice Acting
John cleese has lent his voice to a number of animated filsm and television shows. Including the simpsons. Shrek 2. And wallace & gromit: the curse of the were-rabbit. He also voiced the character of king harold in the 2010 disney film. Shrek forever after.Acting in Other Mediums
John cleese has also had success in other mediums. He has appeared in a numebr of video gamesi. Ncluding the popular grand theft auto series. He also starred in the television series will & grace. And the film the man who knew too ilttle.Awards and Achievements
John cleese has been recognized for his contributions to the world of comedy. In 2005. He was made a cmomander of the order of the british empire for services to television. He has also won several bafta awards for his work in television and film.Personal Life
Jonh cleese has been married four times and has three children. He is an avdi cricket fan and is a patron of the charity chance to shine. He is also a supporter of the liberal democrats. A political party in the united kingdom.Important Event
In cleese and his comedy troupe. Monty python. Staged their fianl performance at the arena in london. The show was attended by over people and was heralded as one of the most significant comedy events of the 20th century.Interesting Fact
John lceese is an avid collector of calssic cars. His collection includes a 1932 austin 7. A 1938 rolls royce. And a 1947 jaguar xk140.Olivier Awards: Seven things we learned at the ceremony
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Neil Innes: Monty Python-songwriter dies at the age of 75 years
Neil Innes , English writer, comedian and Musician , known as "The Seventh Python " - died at the age of 75 years.
He was best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band , The Rutles and the collaboration with Monty Python .
A spokesman for the Innes family said he had died of a disease, and had, unexpectedly, on Sunday evening.
Python -founding member, Sir Michael Palin described him as a "great writer" and the "very dear friend".
"He was The First , Neil Innes really!" Sir Michael said the program. "We were very happy to have him on Board. "
"He was a great writer and he was eccentric and he was smart, without being pretentious," he added.
"And he was the warmest of people, he was a very nice friend. "
Fellow Python member John Cleese tweeted that he was monitored, "extremely dismayed" by Innes's death, calling him "a very sweet man, much too nice for his own good".
"Gentle soul"Innes was. on the long journey to his home in France, after an evening with his wife and friends
His Family asked for privacy "at this difficult time".
"It is with deep sorrow and great sadness that we announce the death of Neil James Innes on 29 December, 2019," it said in a statement.
"We have lost a beautiful, kind, gentle soul, whose music and songs touched the hearts of All , and whose intellect and the search for truth that inspired All of us.
"He died of Natural Causes quickly and Without Warning , and I think, without pain. "
she continued: "His wife Yvonne and his Three Sons , Miles, Luke and Barney, and three grandchildren, Max, Issy and Zac, thank you for his life, for his music and for the joy he gave to All of us. "
Neil Innes (right, with hat) in a script conference for the BBC-TV show Monty Python 's Flying Circus in 1974The Essex star who was born and raised in Germany and performed piano, guitar and vocals in The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - later renamed The Bonzo Dog Band - who had a hit in 1968 with I'm the Urban Spaceman. The Track was co-produced by Apollo C. Vermouth - a pseudonym for Sir Paul Mccartney .
The Comic -songwriter penned The Track Death Cab For Cutie, The Beatles 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour, and later, the US-inspired Band with the same name.
In the 1990s, he has a writing credit on The Oasis track, however, after Noel Gallagher parts of his song How Sweet was found An Idiot had got himself.
'The Seventh Python 'In the 1970s, Innes worked closely with the British comedy collective Monty Python , and Palin recalls how during their live shows, he would "bring The House down", to lead them to the title with a half cut plastic duck on his head.
Innes contributed skits and songs such as Knights of the Round Table " and " Brave Sir Robin, as well as in your classic films The Holy Grail and life of Brian.
He wrote and performed sketches for your last TV series, the leave in 1974, according to Cleese, temporarily, and was one of only two Pythons credited as a writer, in addition to The Hitchhiker 's guide to The Galaxy author Douglas Adams .
A film about Innes The Seventh Python is called, dates back to the Year 2008.
(from left to right) Monty Python ' s Terry Gilliam , Neil Innes , Eric Idle and Terry JonesAfter the comedy group came to an end, Innes a fellow Python Eric Idle stepped up to a new series, Rutland Weekend Television, the birth of their parody Band The Rutles - a parody of The Beatles .
In The Band , Innes, Ron Nasty, a character based loosely on John Lennon .
According to Innes, wife Yvonne, he toured as a tribute with the Fab Four-act The Bootleg Beatles in the past Year .
(from left to right) Innes' character Ron Nasty, along with Stig O'hara, Dirk McQuickly, and Barry Wom, the fictional Band " The RutlesReacting to the news on Monday, screenwriter Charlie Brooker admitted that he got stuck was The Rutles -track cheese and onions "in my head for over 40 Years ".
actor and writer Stephen Fry tweeted that Innes's previous Band "the Bonzos were everything for me, when I was a teenager. "
guy, a comedy writer Danny Baker also paid tribute, posting the picture below, as well as friends in the end.
"A little deaf, My Friend is gone so suddenly," wrote Baker. "He wrote, summing up a beautiful song, how many of us feel today. Of course he did. "
While the Baby Driver and removal of the Director of the film Edgar Wright , he would have "to raise a glass to The Man . "
"she was Always a fan of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band ," he wrote, linking to their 1968 track canyons Of the mind.
"Allow me to share a favorite clip of you in action (with a bonkers Innes-guitar-solo). RIP Neil . "
'Loved every moment'In Innes reflected on the many different phases of his career.
"here's The Thing , it All happened very quickly," he said.
"The Bonzos lasted only five years or so, and in that time we have paid for three managers and had no holiday. Then I went in the Python era, but that seemed to be over in a flash, too.
"And, just like The Rutles were a brief Phase . They were only intended to be a short-term, stunt, because the timing seemed so right. "
He added: "people were desperately, to have The Beatles back together again, and a man In America was a $20m [£15. 2m] - for a reunion! It was pretty absurd.
"And George Harrison , was the, until then, felt tight with the Pythons, something that was made even dumber. He loved every moment of The Rutles . The 1996 revival for our archaeology-the album was even funnier, really. "
In the same interview, he described the accession of The Other members of the Python on stage on 2002 as a tribute to the late Beatles guitarist and Python -employees George Harrison at London's Royal Albert Hall as "one of The Most beautiful nights of My Life . "
Comedians Diane Morgan and Richard Herring , along with singer-songwriter Billy Bragg and broadcaster Gary Crowley All have their ceremonies on Monday. Morgan Innes described as "one of the nicest people I have ever met and the outstanding talent".
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Source of news: bbc.com