John Cleese
Age: 81 | From: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1939-10-27 02:32:18
Aliases: Джон Клиз
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Homepage: http://www.thejohncleese.com/
Movie Involvements: 59
TV Involvements: 21
Most Famous Work
Biography
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s he became a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. In the mid 1970s, Cleese and his first wife Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Later, he co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. He also starred in Clockwise, and has appeared in many other films, including two James Bond films, two Harry Potter films, and three Shrek films. With Yes Minister writer Antony Jay he co-founded the production company Video Arts, responsible for making entertaining training films. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Cleese, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Most Famous Work
The Croods: A New Age
(2020) Characters
The Croods
(2013) Story
Life of Brian
(1979) Screenplay
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(1975) Writer
Monty Python's Flying Circus
(1969) Writer
Fawlty Towers
(1975) Creator
A Fish Called Wanda
(1988) Writer
Fierce Creatures
(1997) ScreenplayActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Mr. Bridwell | |
| John Christmas | ||
| Uncredited (Archive footage) | ||
| 2020 | John | |
| Actor | ||
| Self | ||
| 2019 | Himself | |
| Otto von Walrus (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Brian King | ||
| 2018 | Donner (voice) | |
| Fairy Godmother / Executioner (voice) | ||
| Phil | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2016 | Roi Gristle (voice) | |
| Basil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| Himself | ||
| General Eeder | ||
| 2015 | Self | |
| Himself | ||
| Chief Alien (voice) | ||
| Mr. Bellwood (voice) | ||
| 2014 | Himself | |
| The Guv | ||
| Self | ||
| Quincy Endicott (voice) | ||
| Adelaide (voice) | ||
| Self, others | ||
| Himself | ||
| Himself | ||
| 2013 | Himself | |
| Bulldog (voice) | ||
| The Guv | ||
| 2012 | Self | |
| Himself | ||
| Various (voice) | ||
| McCormick | ||
| 2011 | Narrator | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2010 | Mr. 'The Guv' Edly | |
| King (voice) | ||
| 2009 | Professor Kipple (voice) | |
| Himself | ||
| Self / Basil Fawlty | ||
| Basil Fawlty / himself | ||
| Dreyfus | ||
| Guest | ||
| 2008 | Professor Barnhardt | |
| Himself - Host | ||
| Dr. Glickenstein (voice) | ||
| Himself | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Himself | ||
| 2007 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| King Harold (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Himself | ||
| 2006 | Samuel the Sheep (voice) | |
| Guest | ||
| N/A | ||
| Lord Conrad | ||
| Dr. Primkin | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Various | ||
| 2005 | Himself | |
| Himself | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mercury (voice) | ||
| Himself | ||
| Noted Behavioral Scientist / Noted Doctor / Leading Social Scientist / Leading Orthopedic Surgeon | ||
| 2004 | Himself | |
| Himself | ||
| N/A | ||
| Grizzled Sergeant | ||
| King (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2003 | Self | |
| An Ape Named 'Ape' (voice) | ||
| Mr. Munday | ||
| Charles Merchant | ||
| Self | ||
| himself | ||
| 2002 | N/A | |
| Q | ||
| Nearly Headless Nick | ||
| Narrator (segment "Mickey's Mechanical House") (voice) | ||
| James | ||
| himself | ||
| Red Lansing | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2001 | N/A | |
| Nearly Headless Nick (Sir Nicolas) | ||
| Narrator (segment 'The Nutcracker') | ||
| Donald P. Sinclair | ||
| Presenter | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2000 | Albert the Magic Pudding (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| Himself | ||
| Alexander Pentcho | ||
| Henry Marcus | ||
| Himself | ||
| Interviewer in lounge | ||
| 1999 | R | |
| Narrator | ||
| Himself | ||
| Himself | ||
| Himself | ||
| Maurice Walpole | ||
| Mr. Mersault | ||
| Self | ||
| Fake Bosse Bo Johansson | ||
| 1998 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| 1997 | An Ape Named 'Ape' (voice) | |
| Rollo Lee | ||
| 1996 | Mr. Toad's Lawyer | |
| Himself | ||
| Himself | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1995 | N/A | |
| Minister | ||
| 1994 | Dr. Julius Plumford | |
| Jean-Bob (voice) | ||
| Prof. Waldman | ||
| 1993 | Raoul P. Shadgrind | |
| 1992 | N/A | |
| 1991 | Cat R. Waul (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| 1990 | Man on the Beach in Barbados Who Looks Like John Cleese | |
| Himself / Various Roles (also archive footage) | ||
| 1989 | Himself | |
| Bartender | ||
| Halfdan the Black | ||
| Himself | ||
| 1988 | Archie Leach | |
| Himself | ||
| 1987 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Himself | ||
| Jim Cleese | ||
| 1986 | Brian Stimpson | |
| 1985 | Sheriff John T. Langston | |
| 1983 | Harvey 'Blind' Pew | |
| Self | ||
| Diverse Rollen | ||
| Major Giles Flack | ||
| 1982 | Himself - Various Roles | |
| Various Roles | ||
| Himself | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| Robin Hood | ||
| Neville | ||
| Self | ||
| 1980 | Himself / Various Characters | |
| Petruchio | ||
| 1979 | Himself - Various Roles | |
| Art Gallery Visitor | ||
| N/A | ||
| Wise Man #1 / Reg / Jewish Official / First Centurion / Deadly Dirk / Arthur | ||
| Himself | ||
| Nigel Farquhar-Bennett (Narrator) | ||
| Norman Fearless | ||
| 1978 | N/A | |
| Himself | ||
| 1977 | Sherlock Holmes | |
| Self- Various roles | ||
| 1976 | Himself | |
| John Cleese | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1975 | John Cleese | |
| Basil Fawlty | ||
| Second Swallow-Savvy Guard / The Black Knight / Peasant 3 / Sir Launcelot the Brave / Taunting French Guard / Tim the Enchanter | ||
| 1974 | Smychkov | |
| 1973 | Neighbour | |
| Contraceptives Lecturer | ||
| 1971 | N/A | |
| Announcer / Hungarian Citizen / self - Defence Teacher / Sir George Head / Policeman / Interviewer / Mr. Praline / Second General / Christopher Columbus / Mungo the Cook / Bank Robber / Accountant #2 (falling past the window) / Vocational Guidance Counselor / Vivian Smith Smythe Smith / Mountie / Town Guild Lady | ||
| Himself - Various (as Montypython Flyingcircus) | ||
| Harry | ||
| Various Roles | ||
| 1970 | Pumer | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1969 | Director in Sotheby's | |
| N/A | ||
| Various / Announcer | ||
| self | ||
| Himself - Various | ||
| Jones | ||
| 1968 | Television public relations man | |
| Post Office Clerk | ||
| 1967 | Mr. Partridge | |
| N/A | ||
| 1966 | N/A | |
| 1963 | Art Gallery Visitor | |
| 1961 | Sherlock Holmes | |
| Marcus Rugman | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Characters | |
| 2014 | Writer | |
| 2013 | Story | |
| 2006 | Writer | |
| 2001 | Writer | |
| 1997 | Screenplay | |
| 1995 | Writer | |
| 1989 | Writer | |
| 1988 | Writer | |
| 1983 | Screenplay | |
| 1982 | Writer | |
| 1979 | Screenplay | |
| Writer | ||
| 1977 | Screenplay | |
| Writer | ||
| 1975 | Writer | |
| Writer | ||
| 1974 | Adaptation | |
| 1972 | Writer | |
| 1971 | Writer | |
| Screenplay | ||
| Writer | ||
| Writer | ||
| Writer | ||
| 1970 | Writer | |
| 1969 | Writer | |
| Writer | ||
| 1967 | Writer | |
| 1966 | Writer | |
| 1962 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Creator
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Creator | |
| 1976 | Creator | |
| 1975 | Creator | |
| 1967 | Creator | |
| Creator | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Sound
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Songs | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Producer | |
| 1988 | Executive Producer | |
| 1982 | Producer | |
| 1979 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Assistant Director | |
| 1979 | Stage Director | |
| Director | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Creator | |
| 1969 | Additional Writing | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |