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English comedian and actor (born 1939)
John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and television presenter. 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 (1966–1967). In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the surreal sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974). Along with his Python costars Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, Cleese starred in the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and The Meaning of Life (1983).
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Donated $2,300 to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
2023 · as Archie Vainglorious (voice)
2023 · as Arthur William Dallas III
2021 · Creator
2021 · as Mr. Bridwell
2019 · as Otto von Walrus (voice)
2018 · as Fairy Godmother / Executioner (voice)
2018 · as Donner (voice)
2016 · as Roi Gristle (voice)
2015 · as Chief Alien (voice)
2013 · as Bulldog (voice)
2011 · as Narrator (voice)
2010 · as King Harold (voice)
2009 · as Professor Kipple (voice)
2009 · as Dreyfus
2008 · as Dr. Glickenstein (voice)
2008 · as Professor Barnhardt
2007 · as King Harold (voice)
2006 · as Dr. Primkin
