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AKA:
John Otto Cleese
John Marwood Cleese
Birthplace:
Weston-Super-Mare, England
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A tall, long-legged, and jut-jawed English comic actor/writer/producer who specialized in playing thin-skinned Establishment figures as a member of the celebrated, ground-breaking comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus, John Cleese began his comedy career with The Footlights, the famed performing society at Cambridge, where he first worked with future Pythoners Eric Idle and Graham Chapman. Other members included Cleese's future collaborator (and renowned humorist and interviewer) David Frost, future director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Trevor Nunn, and future NATIONAL LAMPOON editor
Chief Inspector Dreyfus
2009
Voice of Samuel the Sheep
2006
Nearly Headless Nick
2001
of Albert--The Magic Pudding
1958
Taught at St. Peter's Prep School
Joined The Footlights, a performing group at Cambridge
1962
Appeared in "The Footlights Revue", directed by Trevor Nunn; played for five months in the West End
1963
Joined BBC Radio writing sketches for the "Dick Emery Show"
1964
Appeared in New Zealand and New York (on- and off-Broadway, as well as on "The Ed Sullivan Show", CBS) with "Footlights Revue"
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