A successful cartoonist who first met John Cleese while working at Help! magazine, Terry Gilliam subsequently became the resident animator with Monty Python's Flying Circus. He also performed with the troupe and wrote several sketches, moving to the big screen with "And Now For Something Completely Different" (1971). After co-directing "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975), he made his solo directing debut with "Jabberwocky" (1976), a grisly medieval interpretation of the Lewis Carroll poem which set the tone for much of his subsequent work. A Terry Gilliam-directed film will have several
