John Cleese
John Cleese is a British comedian. He became famous as one of the members of the Monty Python team ("Ministry of Silly Walks" and "Dead Parrot"), and later as the awful hotel manager Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, which he also wrote. Cleese is noted for his ability at indignation and outrage.
With Robin Skynner he wrote a number of books on dealing with relations: Families and how to survive them, Life and how to survive it. The books are presented as an ongoing dialog between Skynner and Cleese.
He also produced and acted in a number of successful business training films, including "Meetings, Bloody Meetings" and "More Bloody Meetings" about how to set up and run a successful meeting.
Radio
- I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
TV
- The Frost Report
- Frost on Sunday
- Do Not Adjust Your Set
- How to Irritate People with Michael Palin
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Fawlty Towers 1975, 1979
Filmography
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1974
- The Life of Brian 1979
- The Secret Policeman's Ball 1980
- The Great Muppet Caper 1981
- Privates on Parade 1982
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983
- Silverado 1985 (plays an English sheriff in a town in the western USA. His first line, as he walks in to a bar to break up a brawl, is "what's all this, then?")
- Clockwise 1986 (as Mr Stimpson, a school headmaster)
- A Fish Called Wanda 1988 (writer, director, actor: as lawyer Archie Leach (Cary Grant's real name)
- Splitting Heirs 1993
- Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book 1994
- Fierce Creatures 1996
- The Out-of-Towners 1999
- The World is Not Enough 1999 (a James Bond film)
- Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets 2001
etc.