John Cleese Net Worth
John Cleese Net Worth is
$10 Million
John Cleese Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John Marwood Cleese 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 co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the ske... | Full Name | John Cleese |
| Net Worth | $10 Million |
| Date Of Birth | October 27, 1939 |
| Place Of Birth | Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Film Producer, Comedian, Screenwriter, Voice Actor, Television producer, Writer, Film director |
| Education | University of St Andrews, St. Peter's Preparatory School, Downing College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Clifton College |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Spouse | Jennifer Wade (m. 2012) |
| Children | Cynthia Cleese, Camilla Cleese |
| Parents | Reg Cleese, Muriel Cleese |
| Nicknames | Kim Bread , John Otto Cleese , John Spam John Spam John Spam Cleese , John C. Cleeseberg , John Ecles , Nigel Farquhar-Bennett , John Cleese Whicker , John Marwood Cleese , Friend , Spitting Image |
| Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Screenplay, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series |
| Music Groups | Monty Python |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, VGX Award for Best Performance by a Human Male, Edgar Award for Best Mot... |
| Movies | Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Fierce Creatures, Die Another Day, And Now for Something Completely Different, Clockwise, The World Is Not Enough, Time Bandits, Shrek the... |
| TV Shows | Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, At Last the 1948 Show, The Frost Report, Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python, Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python, Monty Python Live at Aspen, Ripping Yarns, Last of the Summer Wine, Casper & Mandrilaftalen, Sez Les, Comedy Playh... |
| Star Sign | Scorpio |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Playing characters with neurotic behaviour |
| 2 | Received pronunciation |
| 3 | When on Monty Python's flying circus, he would introduce sketches with the famous line "And now for something completely different" |
| 4 | His height |
| 5 | Mustache |
| 6 | Usually plays uptight or overbearing comic characters. |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on Theresa May] Margaret Thatcher with a sense of humour. |
| 2 | I'm more relaxed now but if I look at the world, I don't think it's ever been in a worse situation. I look at what's going on and there isn't much to be cheerful about. I look at Trump [Donald J. Trump], and I see a narcissist, with no attention span, who doesn't have clear ideas about anything and makes it all up as he goes along. |
| 3 | If I thought there was any chance of major reform in the EU, I'd vote to stay in. But there isn't. Sad. |
| 4 | [on how to reform the European Union] Give up the Euro, introduce accountability, and hang Jean-Claude Juncker. |
| 5 | [on Rupert Murdoch, the person he said he most despises] He did irreparable damage to English culture. |
| 6 | Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough. |
| 7 | [on seeing himself acting on film for the first time] I looked like a giraffe on a hovercraft. |
| 8 | [on his years of depression] Life seemed almost pointless... The feeling was a kind of deadness... And the sense of humor was an early casualty. In fact, when I began to be able to laugh at all, it began to clear. |
| 9 | [about his home town] Childhood was very low key. Extremely little happened. Weston used to have a field-hockey festival, but that was stopped, as people were becoming too excited. |
| 10 | I think we're all born with a sense of humour. Creativity is another thing . . . The thing that mainly kills creativity and humour is anxiety. You need to be able to play. I think a lot of us lose this ability. |
| 11 | Piers Morgan writes that I didn't recognize him in a restaurant in New York. I did. I just didn't want to speak to someone I truly detest. |
| 12 | [on his surprise cameo in the iconic science-fiction series Doctor Who (1963) in 1979] It was lovely to do. It just took an hour and a half, so I enjoyed it. Douglas Adams suggested to the director that we should do it. |
| 13 | I don't think that you can edit humor because it may be misunderstood by idiots. |
| 14 | Political correctness started out as a very good idea. But it got latched onto by people who hang onto a small number of truths. In my stand-up , I'll make jokes about Germans, Canadians, the English and the French - which Americans particularly enjoy. And then I say, 'There's this Mexican joke'. And the place freezes. Why is everyone uncomfortable? Is that because Mexicans need particular protection? Are they not capable of looking after themselves? |
| 15 | The sad thing about comedy is that if you spend fifty years doing it, you do finish up knowing most of the jokes. And if you don't know the exact joke, you know something pretty close to it. There isn't the sense of discovery that you got when you were younger. |
| 16 | [on a knighthood] I'll only have one if Python get one. We always thought it would be nice to actually have Sir Monty Python but not actually have knighthoods ourselves. |
| 17 | The thing about shock is not that it upsets some people, I think; I think that it gives others a momentary joy of liberation, as we realized in that instant that the social rules that constrict our lives so terribly are not actually very important. |
| 18 | [improvising during the Parrot Sketch for Monty Python's "One down, five to go" at the O2] I'm rather worried about David Beckham. You see him around all the time, but he never talks. |
| 19 | [on the Daniel Craig Bond films] I did two James Bond movies and then I believe that they decided that the tone they needed was that of the Bourne action movies, which are very gritty and humorless. Also, the big money was coming from Asia, from the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, where the audiences go to watch the action sequences, and that's why in my opinion the action sequences go on for too long, and it's a fundamental flaw. The audiences in Asia are not going for the subtle British humor or the class jokes. |
| 20 | The thing you have to remember about critics is that they can't do it themselves. |
| 21 | I don't know what's going on in London because London is no longer an English city. That's how they got the Olympics, they said "We're the most cosmopolitan city in the world". But it doesn't feel English. I had a Californian friend come over two months ago, walked down the King's Road and said to me "Where are all the English people?" I mean, I love having different cultures around but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking "What's going on?" |
| 22 | Movie executives have almost no idea what they're doing. In fact, I would say that's an incorrect statement. I would say the executives don't have ANY idea what they're doing. But they don't have any idea that they have no idea, so they're blundering around. They're trying to control everything without having a clue what's really going on. And that's very sad because if somebody put me in charge of BBC comedy, I could resurrect it in six months. At the moment, the people there are just very poor. |
| 23 | [on the BBC in 2013] The people who became executives [in the Sixties and Seventies] had produced or directed a great deal of comedy. Now there seems to be an executive class and they have never written and never directed. |
| 24 | [on Fawlty Towers (1975)] There is a famous note which I have a copy of, I think it's framed. What happened was, Connie and I wrote that first episode and we sent it in to Jimmy Gilbert (James Gilbert). And first of all the fellow whose job it was to assess the quality of the writing said, and I can quote it fairly accurately, 'This is full of clichéd situations and stereotypical characters and I cannot see it as being anything other than a disaster'. And Jimmy himself said 'You're going to have to get them out of the hotel, John, you can't do the whole thing in the hotel'. Whereas, of course, it's in the hotel that the whole pressure cooker builds up. |
| 25 | [on British television] I don't think the writers work as hard as they used to, and I think they may lack experience because I don't think the writing is as good as it used to be. But I do proudly say that in the 60s, 70s and 80s we did have the least bad television in the world, and that's quite a claim. I think the main problem now is it's run on the basis of money. |
| 26 | [on why he has to avoid living in London during the 2012 Summer Olympics] I'm in a very strange situation. Because of the tax situation in the UK and because I have to pay this enormous alimony every year of one million dollars, I discovered that if I live in London, which I was intending to do, I have to make two million dollars before I keep a penny. That's quite a lot. So I'm not going to be living in London. The result of that for at least a year, I'm hardly allowed to go back there at all. |
| 27 | Someone telephonically knowledgeable and I had a bit of an argument about that. He said that telephone booths didn't work because they were vandalized. I said they were vandalized because they didn't work. |
| 28 | in Penelope Gilliatt, _To Wit: Skin and Bones of Comedy_, 1990] It's the people who try desperately to put a measured surface over secret anger seething away underneath who give you the sense of most violence. |
| 29 | Although my inclinations are slightly left-of-center, I was terribly disappointed with the last Labour government. Gordon Brown lacked emotional intelligence and was never a leader. |
| 30 | Some people ask me to do ads and I think, I don't really want to sell potato crisps. |
| 31 | I was asked to do a reality show a few months ago. I forget which one it was, it might have been the jungle one or perhaps Celebrity Root Canal. I just laughed, then asked how much they were offering out of curiosity. It was £200,000, but I would never agree to one of those shows. That would mean the collapse of western civilization. There is always a filter when it comes to accepting work. I call it the EQ - the embarrassment quota. I will only do embarrassing things if there is a lot of money involved and people won't really know about it. |
| 32 | [on British television] When I was growing up, we had the best television in the world. Now it's as bad as it is everywhere else, and I don't particularly want to participate in that. I don't really watch TV these days, except live sport. There's nothing much that appeals to me and I would rather read a book. |
| 33 | The divorce settlement absolutely affects every decision I make professionally. I have to earn $1 million a year before I even get to keep a penny and I have to build my professional choices around that fact. It annoys me that in my seventies I am having to live in a way I don't choose to live. Imagine how much I'd have had to pay Alyce if she had contributed anything to the relationship - such as children or a conversation. |
| 34 | If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. |
| 35 | I always felt attracted by Austrian and German culture in a certain way. I've always liked Vienna. I never saw so much theatre and music and so many museums anywhere else. I like the city's velocity and the food. It doesn't have the tackiness of other big cities. I considered renting a small flat in Switzerland. I love being in Lyon, Strasbourg, Munich and Milan in four hours from there. |
| 36 | England changed much more than I did. We used to have some sort of middle class culture with an adequate amount of respect for education. It was a bit racist - not in a mean way though, but still racist. Some things have changed for the better. But it's not a middle class culture anymore, but a yob culture, a rowdy culture. |
| 37 | I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive. |
| 38 | I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. |
| 39 | Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person. Oddly enough, the one or two jokes I really regret on Python are the more personal ones. We did have this thing about David Hemmings ... something about him being played by a piece of wood. At the end there was a voice-over saying: "David Hemmings appeared by permission of the Forestry Commission." Afterwards, I felt just a little bit guilty. |
| 40 | In the early days of my career, I'd have these moments of utter delight: at the age of 21, I discovered Buster Keaton; at 24 it was Harold Lloyd; then W.C. Fields. Just occasionally, one discovers someone new for oneself. I thought Bill Hicks was a genius, Eddie Izzard too. I don't want to be mean but there are several highly regarded shows around right now - and I'm not talking about Ricky Gervais, because I think he's excellent - that I don't much care for. So basically I keep my mouth shut. At this stage of my life I have to accept that I'm not likely to come across anything as startlingly good as Buster Keaton. |
| 41 | I think that phone call was astoundingly tasteless. Apparently Russell Brand had actually slept with the girl, who works in a slightly raunchy club. Oh yes, a burlesque club. Anyway ... I can't imagine why they would ring Andrew (Andrew Sachs) up. It was, as I say, very tasteless. I thought that was extraordinary, especially as I've met Jonathan Ross and liked him; it's very hard to see why he would have done it. |
| 42 | Why anyone who has not committed a punishable offense would listen to country and western music is beyond me. |
| 43 | [on making commercials to support himself and then-wife Connie Booth while writing Fawlty Towers (1975)] I have to thank the advertising industry for making this possible. Connie and I used to spend six weeks writing each episode and we didn't make a lot of money out of it. If it hadn't been for the commercials I wouldn't have been able to afford to spend so much time on the script. |
| 44 | [on BBC presenter Jonathan Ross's obscene phone calls to his Fawlty Towers (1975) co-star Andrew Sachs in 2008] I'm uneasy about censorship so I think that it's important to hire people who have good enough taste to censor themselves. I've always thought that Jonathan Ross would have fallen into this category. |
| 45 | When I got divorced from Connie Booth, with whom I had dinner on Sunday, and when I got divorced from Barbara Trentham, I didn't need lawyers on either occasion, because I just sort of said, 'Why don't I give you this?' And they said, 'That's very fair, very generous. Thank you.' End of story. This woman [Alyce Faye Eichelberger] now was asking my old St John's Wood accountants for 60 boxes of documents, so many documents that they had to send people out from California to go through them. |
| 46 | We broke up in the marital therapist's office. We'd been seeing them for a couple of years. And we agreed to break up and three weeks later I heard about the lawyer that she was using and I rang her up and said, 'Do you know this lawyer's reputation?' And she said, 'I hear that yours can be pretty nasty, too.' And I said, 'OK, here's an offer. You get rid of yours. I'll get rid of mine. I'll appoint someone you're comfortable with, you appoint someone I'm comfortable with and it could be fairly easy.' And she said, 'No, I'm not interested. I would like to stay with the present situation.' |
| 47 | [on his divorce from Alyce Faye Eichelberger]: I feel angry sometimes. But my anger is not so much about sharing the property but having to go on working hard to provide alimony for someone who's already going to have at least $10 million worth of property, and who's getting £1 million this year. At some point you say, 'Well, what did I do wrong? You know, I was the breadwinner.' The system is insane. |
| 48 | It's very important for me that my friends have a sense of humour. To me it's the kind of touchstone of communication. Alyce Faye Eichelberger's sense of humour was not very European, because she was from Oklahoma and I used to joke that the Oklahoma Sense of Irony is one of the world's short books. |
| 49 | [on his divorce from Alyce Faye Eichelberger] This is the happiest I have ever been and I feel that at 68 now I want as many years as I can get. |
| 50 | I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her." |
| 51 | I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damn well like. |
| 52 | I think marriage should be like dog licences. I think you should have to renew marriage licences every five years, unless you have children. And I think before you have children you should have to go and pass various tests and get a licence to have a child. Because it's the most transformative and difficult thing of your life. Far more important [than work]. People don't understand this, and some people who are highly motivated by work, but when I worked I was always motivated, funnily enough, by the fear of being bad. Because it is so humiliating to make a joke and have no one laugh. |
| 53 | When (third wife) Alyce Faye Eichelberger had her hip replacement I realised that there was a chance for a little humour and I sent a bunch of flowers to her lawyer's office saying, 'Would you please inspect these flowers and see whether they are acceptable and would you please vet the greetings card that comes with these and see whether that is also legitimate. And if you are satisfied that both of them are not harmful, would you be good enough to send them on to my wife as soon as possible?' To which the lawyer replied: 'As the trade papers say, he's not as funny as he was.' The sort of leaden, nasty - what's the word? - black-hearted response to a little conceit. |
| 54 | Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food. |
| 55 | [from the eulogy he gave at Graham Chapman's memorial service] And I guess that we're all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, a man of such capability and kindness, of such unusual intelligence, should now, so suddenly, be spirited away at the age of only 48, before he'd achieved many of the things which he was capable and before he'd enough fun. Well, I feel that I should say "Nonsense!" Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries. |
| 56 | When people say "I'm not a prude, but..." what they mean is "I am a prude, and..." |
| 57 | I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. |
| 58 | You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. |
| 59 | If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick. |
| 60 | I don't think anyone should be educated sexually. There's far too many people on the planet. If we could hush it up for a few years, that would help. |
| 61 | My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time. |
| 62 | When I was a child and I was upset about something, my mother was not capable of containing that emotion, of letting me be upset but reassuring me, of just being with me in a calming way. She always got in a flap, so I not only had my own baby panics, fears and terrors to deal with, but I had to cope with hers, too. Eventually I taught myself to remain calm when I was panicked, in order not to upset her. In a way, she had managed to put me in charge of her. At 18 months old, I was doing the parenting. |
| 63 | I'm probably the worst singer in Europe. I won't compete for North America. |
| 64 | [about his move from England to California] At my age, I want to wake up and see sunshine pouring in through the windows every day. |
| 65 | In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both. |
| 66 | I never enjoyed The Meaning of Life (1983). I always regarded that entire film as a bit of a cockup. |
| 67 | It's lovely that Harry Potter and the Bond movies are still shot in England - that's a great pleasure, but it's true that most of the well-paid work is in America. |
| 68 | [in 2001] You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met. |
| 69 | [in 2001] I think there's much more fear now than there used to be, much more fear of failure. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | After moving to Monterey, California, he joked about going back to his old family surname of 'Cheese;' because 'Jack' is a nickname for 'John' (like 'Hank' is for 'Henry'), and he thought it would be fun to be known as 'Monterey Jack Cheese.'. |
| 2 | He is a fan of the singer Neil Diamond and has seen him in concert. |
| 3 | Cleese's father was born Reggie Cheese, but changed the 'H' to an 'L' when he enlisted for WWII because he was fed up with all the predictable jokes. |
| 4 | Cleese won libel damages in a January 1989 decision by the High Court in Lzondon.against a Simon Gallant, who had written that in real life Cleese resembled his characterization of the obnoxiously rude Basil Fawlty. |
| 5 | Cleese made many popular commercials for American TV including Kronenbourg beer, Sony, Compaq computers, Magnavox TV, and Schweppes. |
| 6 | Cleese first worked with Eric Idle and Grahan Chapman after he joined the Footlights Revue as a Cambridge student. He later wrote for David Frost, who had been a Revue member before Cleese joined. |
| 7 | Has said in interviews that he loves 'really rude questions' because they are original and force him to think about an appropriate answer. The best question he ever got was 'if you were a part of a plane, which part would you be?' His answer was 'the joystick'. |
| 8 | Was on the tribute show to mark the BBC Television Centre's closing in 2012, along with Ronnie Corbett, Miranda Hart and David Jason. |
| 9 | Currently touring New Zealand with his new stage show "John Cleese, His Life and His Current Medical Conditions" (or something very similar) [November 2005] |
| 10 | He lives in Montecito, California. [June 2006] |
| 11 | He is a cat lover, particularly of the Siamese breed and once named 5 of them after types of cheese. Incidently, he was fond of cheese until he discovered he is lactose intolerant. |
| 12 | He didn't learn to drive a car until 1976. |
| 13 | He suffered from depression between 1973 and 1976. |
| 14 | Supports Bristol City Football Club. |
| 15 | During the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, air travel across northern Europe was severely disrupted. Cleese, in Oslo on April 17 but needing to get to London by April 19, paid £3,300 for a cab ride to Brussels to catch a ferry ride. |
| 16 | Provided the voice of God in Spamalot. |
| 17 | Helped his daughter, Camilla Cleese, to kick her drug habit (which started when she was 11) by sending her to a psychiatric ward and then a rehab clinic. After more stints in rehab, she finally kicked her drug and alcohol habit in 2007 and praised her father for helping turn her life around [December 21, 2008). |
| 18 | During a 2014 interview in a Dutch talkshow, he debunked the story that he had offered to write speeches for Democratic Presidential candidate 'Barack Obama' in 2008. He had merely said that he liked many of the Democratic plans for the American people and would love to assist in any way. A local newspaper had interpreted this as an offer to help Obama writing his speeches, but Cleese considered Obama more than capable enough to write his own speeches. |
| 19 | Member of Monty Python along with Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. |
| 20 | The role of Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (1991) was written with him in mind, and no other actor was considered for the role. But he still turned it down. |
| 21 | When he first started acting his original goal was to be a classically trained Shakespearean actor. |
| 22 | Was invited to the party Steve Martin was throwing that turned out to be his wedding. |
| 23 | Before becoming an actor, Cleese studied to be a lawyer. He went on to play a lawyer in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Splitting Heirs (1993). |
| 24 | Just to see if anyone would notice, during the early 1970s Cleese added one obviously fake film per year to his annual filmography listing in Who's Who. For the record, these fake films were "The Bonar Law Story" (1971), "Abbott & Costello Meet Sir Michael Swann" (1972), "The Young Anthony Barber" (1973) and "Confessions of a Programme Planner" (1974). Although Cleese confessed to the gag in the 1980s, mentions of these bogus films still appear from time to time in scholarly works on Cleese, including the entry in the Encyclopedia of Television, 1st ed. (1996) edited by Horace Newcomb. |
| 25 | Campaigned long, hard but unsuccessfully to win the role of Brian in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) because he wanted to expand his range in his first substantial film role, but the rest of the group favored the late Graham Chapman, and eventually the group persuaded Cleese that Chapman was better suited to the part of Brian and Cleese stepped aside. |
| 26 | He and Terry Gilliam are the only members of Monty Python to be nominated for Oscars. Coincidentally, they were both for Best Original Screenplay, Gilliam for Brazil (1985) and Cleese for A Fish Called Wanda (1988). Both screenplays did not win their Oscars, and both films featured Michael Palin. |
| 27 | A newly discovered species of lemur, avahi cleesei, was named after him in honor of his love of the endangered primates, which figure prominently in his movie, Fierce Creatures (1997). |
| 28 | As a child loved the radio comedy show "The Goon Show". |
| 29 | Father Reg Cleese was an insurance salesman. |
| 30 | In 2005, offered a part of his colon, removed due to diverticulitis, for sale on his official website. The proceeds are reportedly to be divided between Cleese himself and his surgeon. |
| 31 | Has said that Cornell University is set in one of the most beautiful locations on earth. |
| 32 | He was a supporter of the British Labour Party until the formation of the SDP (Social Democratic Party) in 1981, which he openly supported in the 1980s. When the SDP merged with the Liberal Party, he supported the newly formed Liberal Democrats. |
| 33 | Has resided for many years in the prestigious Chicago North Shore suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois. |
| 34 | Has played the father of two of the Charlie's Angels. First he played Lucy Liu's father in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). The next year he played Cameron Diaz's father in Shrek 2 (2004). |
| 35 | Voiced Jean-Bob, a frog who believes he's a prince, in The Swan Princess (1994), then went on to voice a king who used to be a frog in Shrek 2 (2004). |
| 36 | Terry Gilliam noted among his Monty Python co-stars that there seemed to be a division between the taller, more "aggressive" Cambridge men (Cleese, Graham Chapman, & Eric Idle) and the shorter, lighter-humored Oxford men (Michael Palin & Terry Jones), the latter of which the American Gilliam found himself closer to. Gilliam considered Cleese the most "Cambridge" of the group, being the tallest and most "aggressive" member of Monty Python. |
| 37 | In 2002, he appeared in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), with Maggie Smith, and in Die Another Day (2002), opposite her son, Toby Stephens. |
| 38 | Appeared in a series of educational short subjects produced by the British company Video Arts designed to teach management and trainees how to handle stress and unusual situations. Cleese took advantage of his comic talents and portrayed events as absurd situations so that audiences would better remember their training. |
| 39 | Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 108-109. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 |
| 40 | He was offered the title of C.B.E. (Knight-Commander of the British Empire) in 1996. Turned it down because, in his own words, "The title doesn't get the same admiration and respect from the general public that it does from those who actually bestow it - you don't get to be addressed as 'Commander Cleese,' in my case - which somewhat nullifies the point of it all." Similarly, Cleese was offered inauguration to the House of Lords but turned that down as well; according to himself, "It would have had a very nice ring - 'Lord John of Cleese', I mean - but on the other hand, I would have been obligated to stay in London all through the winter...because that's when they meet in Parliament to vote on whatever-have-you. And *nobody* in their right mind lives in London during the bloody winter!". |
| 41 | Father-in-law of Ed Solomon. |
| 42 | Was the tallest member of Monty Python, having been about 2 inches taller than Graham Chapman. |
| 43 | When the Globe Theatre was rebuilt in London, a service was offered whereby you could have your name on a tile in the courtyard, for a donation to the project. Cleese and fellow python Michael Palin both signed up for tiles, but Palin's was spelled wrong. Cleese paid extra to ensure it would be spelled "Pallin." |
| 44 | In the late 1990s he appeared in German TV commercials for a lottery service. He actually spoke German in some of these spots (while some had no dialogue and others were dubbed later on). |
| 45 | When he left the Monty Python team, he was approached by the BBC to do something else, and together with Booth, created "Fawlty Towers (1975)" based on their experiences in a Torquay hotel. |
| 46 | The inspiration for Fawlty Towers (1975) came from a hotel stay he had with the other Pythons in the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, England. The hotel manager was called Donald Sinclair, someone Cleese considered to be the rudest man he had ever encountered. He later played a character by the name of Donald P. Sinclair in Rat Race (2001). |
| 47 | His mother, Muriel Cleese (b. Cross, 5 October 1899 - 5 October 2000) died on her 101st birthday. |
| 48 | Said he was to be the first person to say the F-word at a memorial service when he spoke at Graham Chapman's. |
| 49 | Reached adult height of 6'5" by the age of 13. He was already six feet at age 12. |
| 50 | John's father's name was Reg Cleese but his grandfather was named John Edwin Cheese. His father changed his name when he joined the British army in 1915. |
| 51 | Co-owns the Christine Schell Fine Objects antique shop in Montecito, CA. |
| 52 | Is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. |
| 53 | According to Brian Henson, when Cleese guest-starred on The Muppet Show (1976), he enjoyed the show very much and became very close with the writers because he wanted to get involved in the writing. When he did get involved with the writing, he and the other writers came up with a concept where Cleese was being held against his will on the show and would try to get off the show while the Muppets were trying to get him to do his scheduled bits. Of course, in this case, life did not imitate art, as a few years later, Cleese appeared again with the Muppets in the film The Great Muppet Caper (1981). |
| 54 | Rector of University of St Andrews from 1970-1973. |
| 55 | Who's Who lists his recreations as "gluttony, sloth." |
| 56 | Ever since one of his most famous Monty Python sketches, The Ministry of Silly Walks, he has found himself continually pestered by admirers to do silly walks for them. He has stated that the sketch was born during a moment of silly improvisation, and he himself doesn't particularly care for it. |
| 57 | When he had to join the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in 1989, for his third appearance on American TV, none of the staff at the AFTRA office recognized him, or had any idea who he was. |
| 58 | Went to the United States with the Footlights stage show "Cambridge Circus" in 1964, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan's The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). |
| 59 | Was a member of the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club. |
| 60 | He was a cast member of the highly successful radio show "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again". His fellow cast members were Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, David Hatch and Jo Kendall. It was during this radio show that Cleese's famous 'Ferret Song' (later sung on the television series, At Last the 1948 Show (1967)) was first heard. |
| 61 | Co-wrote several episodes of Doctor in the House (1969) and its sequels with Graham Chapman, and also wrote some later episodes as sole author. |
| 62 | Holds a law degree from Cambridge University. |
| 63 | Father of 2 daughters; Cynthia Cleese (born 1971) with Connie Booth and Camilla Cleese (born 1984) with Barbara Trentham. |
| 64 | Member of the comedy group "Monty Python". |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse | 2001 | Video | Narrator (segment 'The Nutcracker') (voice) |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Nearly Headless Nick | |
| Rat Race | 2001 | Donald P. Sinclair | |
| 3rd Rock from the Sun | 1998-2001 | TV Series | Dr. Liam Neesam |
| H.M.O. | 2001 | TV Movie | Dr. Larry King |
| Rockstar | 2000 | Short | Interviewer in lounge |
| The Magic Pudding | 2000 | Albert the Magic Pudding (voice) | |
| 007 Racing | 2000 | Video Game | R (voice) |
| The World Is Not Enough | 2000 | Video Game | R (voice) |
| Quantum Project | 2000 | Short | Alexander Pentcho |
| Isn't She Great | 2000 | Henry Marcus | |
| The World Is Not Enough | 1999 | R | |
| Python Night: 30 Years of Monty Python | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Announcer / Himself / Gumby / ... |
| Casper & Mandrilaftalen | 1999 | TV Series | Purple Gun Rack of Love Repair Man / Fake Bosse Bo Johansson / Sita-ta Columbus |
| The Out-of-Towners | 1999 | Mr. Mersault | |
| Parting Shots | 1998 | Maurice Walpole | |
| Starship Titanic | 1998 | Video Game | The Bomb (as Kim Bread) |
| The Meaning of Life | 1997 | Video Game | Various |
| George of the Jungle | 1997 | An Ape Named 'Ape' (voice) | |
| Fierce Creatures | 1997 | Rollo Lee | |
| Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail | 1996 | Video Game | Second Swallow-Savvy Guard Large man with dead body The Black Knight ... |
| Mr. Toad's Wild Ride | 1996 | Mr Toad's Lawyer | |
| Look at the State We're In! | 1995 | TV Mini-Series | Minister |
| The Jungle Book | 1994 | Dr. Plumford | |
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 1994 | Professor Waldman | |
| The Swan Princess | 1994 | Jean-Bob (voice) | |
| Last of the Summer Wine | 1993 | TV Series | Neighbour |
| Splitting Heirs | 1993 | Raoul P. Shadgrind | |
| It's Your Choice: Selection Skills for Managers | 1993 | Video short | Ivan the terrible |
| An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | 1991 | Cat R. Waul (voice) | |
| Um Passo, Outro Passo e Depois... | 1991 | Actor on TV (uncredited) | |
| Grime Goes Green: Your Business and the Environment | 1990 | Video | James Grime |
| Bullseye! | 1990 | Man on the Beach in Barbados Who Looks Like John Cleese | |
| Erik the Viking | 1989 | Halfdan the Black | |
| The Big Picture | 1989 | Bartender | |
| A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | Archie Leach | |
| Baby Quark | 1987 | TV Short | Narrator (English version, voice) |
| Dragonslayer Quark | 1987 | TV Short English version, voice | |
| Cheers | 1987 | TV Series | Dr. Simon Finch-Royce |
| Quark and the Highway Robber | 1987 | Short | Narrator (voice) |
| Clockwise | 1986 | Brian Stimpson | |
| Silverado | 1985 | Sheriff Langston | |
| Budgeting | 1984 | Video short | Julian Carruthers |
| So You Want to Be a Success at Selling? | 1984 | TV Mini-Series | Salesman |
| Yellowbeard | 1983 | Blind Pew | |
| The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Fish #2 Dr. Spencer Humphrey Williams ... | |
| Privates on Parade | 1983 | Major Giles Flack | |
| Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | 1982 | Documentary | First Barber Wrestling commentator Pope Julius II ... |
| Whoops Apocalypse | 1982 | TV Series | Lacrobat |
| Time Bandits | 1981 | Robin Hood | |
| The Great Muppet Caper | 1981 | Neville | |
| Giroblauw met John Cleese | 1981 | TV Short | Interviewer |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 1980 | TV Movie | Petruchio |
| Cost, Profit, and Break-Even | 1980 | Video short | Julian Carruthers |
| Depreciation and Inflation | 1980 | Video short | Julian Carruthers |
| To Norway, Home of Giants | 1979 | TV Short | Norman Fearless |
| Good King Memorex | 1979 | Video | Basil Fawlty |
| Fawlty Towers | 1975-1979 | TV Series | Basil Fawlty |
| Doctor Who | 1979 | TV Series | Art Gallery Visitor |
| Ripping Yarns | 1979 | TV Series | a Passer-by |
| Life of Brian | 1979 | Wise Man #1 Reg Jewish Official ... | |
| I'd Like a Word with You | 1979 | Video short | Ethelred the Unready Ivan the Terrible William the Silent |
| The Control of Working Capital | 1978 | Video short | Julian Carruthers |
| The Balance Sheet Barrier | 1977 | Video short | Julian Carruthers |
| The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It | 1977 | Arthur Sherlock Holmes | |
| Three Piece Suite | 1977 | TV Series | Kevin (segment "Every Day in Every Way") |
| The Fortune Teller | 1977 | Short | |
| Meetings, Bloody Meetings | 1976 | Video short | Tim |
| Decisions, Decisions | 1975 | Video short | Field Marshal Montgomery Queen Elizabeth I. Brutus ... |
| Who Sold You This, Then? | 1975 | Video short | Narrator |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Second Swallow-Savvy Guard The Black Knight Peasant 3 ... | |
| Romance with a Double Bass | 1974 | Short | Musician Smychkov |
| Golf Etiquette | 1973 | A Golfer | |
| The Goodies | 1973 | TV Series | The Genie |
| Comedy Playhouse | 1973 | TV Series | Sherlock Holmes |
| Monty Python's Flying Circus | 1969-1973 | TV Series | Announcer / Various / The Announcer / ... |
| Is This a Record? | 1973 | Short | |
| The Love Ban | 1973 | Contraceptives Lecturer | |
| Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus | 1972 | TV Series | Professor / Fourth Frenchman / Little Red Riding Hood / ... |
| And Now for Something Completely Different | 1971 | Announcer / Hungarian Citizen / self - Defence Teacher / ... | |
| Misleading Cases | 1971 | TV Series | Mr. Partridge |
| The Statue | 1971 | Harry | |
| The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | 1970 | Pumer | |
| A Christmas Night with the Stars | 1969 | TV Series | Various - Monty Python's Flying Circus segment |
| The Magic Christian | 1969 | Director in Sotheby's | |
| The Best House in London | 1969 | Jones (uncredited) | |
| The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom | 1968 | Post Office Clerk | |
| The Avengers | 1968 | TV Series | Marcus Rugman |
| Interlude | 1968 | TV Publicist | |
| The Frost Report | 1966-1967 | TV Series | Various Roles / Various roles |
| At Last the 1948 Show | 1967 | TV Series | Sidney Lotterby from Manchester / Dr.Gilbert / Head of Secret Service / ... |
| Arctic Justice | 2018 | filming | Otto Von Walrus (voice) |
| Elliot the Littlest Reindeer | post-production voice | ||
| Wedding of the Year | announced | Lionel | |
| Charming | 2017 | Fairy Godmother / Executioner (voice) | |
| Edith | 2017 | TV Series | Phil |
| Trolls | 2016 | King Gristle Sr. (voice) | |
| Albion: The Enchanted Stallion | 2016 | General Eeder | |
| A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown | 2015 | Mr. Bellwood (voice) | |
| Absolutely Anything | 2015 | Chief Alien (voice) | |
| Spud 3: Learning to Fly | 2014 | The Guv | |
| Over the Garden Wall | 2014 | TV Mini-Series | Adelaide / Quincy Endicott |
| Mini Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | 2011-2014 | TV Series short | Narrator |
| Monty Python Live (Mostly) | 2014 | Documentary | Llama lecturer Second Yorkshireman Armless Officer ... |
| Elder Scrolls Online | 2014 | Video Game | Sir Cadwell (voice) |
| Planes | 2013 | Bulldog (voice) | |
| Spud 2: The Madness Continues | 2013 | The Guv | |
| Whitney | 2012-2013 | TV Series | Dr. Grant |
| Meetings, Bloody Meetings | 2012 | Video short | Judge |
| Smart As | 2012 | Video Game | Narrator |
| A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman | 2012 | John Cleese Exploding Don David Frost (voice) | |
| O Theos agapaei to haviari | 2012 | McCormick | |
| The Big Year | 2011 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Beethoven's Christmas Adventure | 2011 | Video | The Narrator |
| Winnie the Pooh | 2011 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Change for the Oceans | 2010 | Video short voice | |
| Spud | 2010 | The Guv - Mr. Edly | |
| Fable III | 2010 | Video Game | Jasper (voice) |
| Entourage | 2010 | TV Series | John Cleese |
| Shrek Forever After | 2010 | King (voice) | |
| Planet 51 | 2009 | Professor Kipple (voice) | |
| The Day the Earth Was Green | 2009 | Video short | |
| The Pink Panther 2 | 2009 | Dreyfus | |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | 2008 | Professor Barnhardt | |
| Igor | 2008 | Dr. Glickenstein (voice) | |
| Shrek the Third | 2007 | Video Game | Narrator / King Harold (voice) |
| Shrek the Third | 2007 | King (voice) | |
| Charlotte's Web | 2006 | Samuel the Sheep (voice) | |
| L'entente cordiale | 2006 | Lord Conrad | |
| Man About Town | 2006 | Dr. Primkin | |
| Complete Guide to Guys | 2005 | Noted Behavioral Scientist / Noted Doctor / Leading Social Scientist / ... | |
| Jade Empire | 2005 | Video Game | Sir Roderick (voice) |
| Mickey's Around the World in 80 Days | 2005 | Video | Narrator (voice) |
| Valiant | 2005 | Mercury (voice) | |
| Performance Matters: The Importance of Praise | 2005 | Video short | Presenter |
| Around the World in 80 Days | 2004 | Grizzled Sergeant | |
| Shrek 2 | 2004 | King (voice) | |
| Will & Grace | 2003-2004 | TV Series | Lyle Finster |
| Time Troopers | 2004 | Video Game | Special Agent Wormold / Various Characters |
| James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing | 2003 | Video Game | Q (voice) |
| Education Tips No. 41: Choosing a Really Expensive School | 2003 | Video short | Dik Bonkers / Ken Enron Chaney |
| George of the Jungle 2 | 2003 | Video | Ape (voice) |
| Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | 2003 | Mr. Munday | |
| Scorched | 2003/I | Charles Merchant | |
| Die Another Day | 2002 | Q | |
| House of Mouse | 2002 | TV Series | Narrator (segment 'The Nutcracker') / Narrator (segment 'Around the World in 80 Days') / Narrator (segment 'Mickey's Mechanical House') / ... |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Nearly Headless Nick | |
| Pinocchio | 2002 | Crickett (English version, voice) | |
| The Adventures of Pluto Nash | 2002 | James | |
| Taking the Wheel | 2002 | Short | Nathan Sullivan |
| My Adventures in Television | 2002 | TV Series | Red Lansing |
| Mickey's House of Villains | 2001 | Video | Narrator (segment 'Mickey's Mechanical House') (voice) |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monty Python Live (Mostly) | 2014 | Documentary | |
| The Croods | 2013 | story | |
| John Cleese: The Alimony Tour | 2011 | Video | |
| Just for Laughs | 2009 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| The Art of Football from A to Z | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Wine for the Confused | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Education Tips No. 41: Choosing a Really Expensive School | 2003 | Video short | |
| John Cleese's the Meaning of Life | 2003 | Video short | |
| Eric Idle: Exploits Monty Python | 2002 | ||
| Comedy Masterclass | 2001 | Video documentary skit "Four Yorkshiremen" | |
| We Know Where You Live | 2001 | TV Movie skit "Four Yorkshiremen" | |
| The Human Face | 2001 | TV Mini-Series documentary | |
| Python Night: 30 Years of Monty Python | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Casper & Mandrilaftalen | 1999 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Fierce Creatures | 1997 | written by | |
| Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail | 1996 | Video Game screenplay "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" | |
| Look at the State We're In! | 1995 | TV Mini-Series 6 episodes | |
| You'll Soon Get the Hang of It: The Technique of One to One Training | 1995 | Video documentary short based on the original screenplay by | |
| It's Your Choice: Selection Skills for Managers | 1993 | Video short | |
| Grime Goes Green: Your Business and the Environment | 1990 | Video | |
| Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python | 1989 | TV Special sketches | |
| A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | story / written by | |
| Comic Relief | 1986/II | TV Special documentary skit "Merchant Banker" | |
| Bombardemagnus | 1985 | TV Mini-Series screenplay - 3 episodes | |
| The Meaning of Life | 1983 | written by | |
| Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | 1982 | Documentary written by | |
| Giroblauw met John Cleese | 1981 | TV Short scenario | |
| Away from It All | 1979 | Short as Friend | |
| Fawlty Towers | 1975-1979 | TV Series by - 12 episodes | |
| Life of Brian | 1979 | written by | |
| The Muppet Show | 1977 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It | 1977 | ||
| The Mermaid Frolics | 1977 | TV Movie documentary writer | |
| Meetings, Bloody Meetings | 1976 | Video short | |
| The Two Ronnies | TV Series written by - 5 episodes, 1973 - 1976 writer - 4 episodes, 1971 | ||
| Awkward Customers | 1975 | Video short | |
| In Two Minds | 1975 | Video short | |
| More Akward Customers | 1975 | Video short | |
| How Not to Exhibit Yourself | 1975 | Video short | |
| I'll Think About It | 1975 | Video short | |
| Who Sold You This, Then? | 1975 | Video short | |
| It's Alright, It's Only a Customer | 1975 | Short | |
| The Competitive Spirit | 1975 | Video documentary short | |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | written by | |
| The Meeting of Minds | 1975 | Video short | |
| Man Hunt | 1974 | Video documentary short | |
| Romance with a Double Bass | 1974 | Short screen adaptation | |
| Monty Python's Flying Circus | TV Series written by - 40 episodes, 1969 - 1974 creator - 1 episode, 1973 additional material - 1 episode, 1969 conceived and written by - 1 episode, 1969 | ||
| Is This a Record? | 1973 | Short additional material | |
| Rentadick | 1972 | as Kurt Loggerhead | |
| Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus | 1972 | TV Series written by | |
| And Now for Something Completely Different | 1971 | screen foreplay & conception | |
| Doctor at Large | 1971 | TV Series by - 6 episodes | |
| The Ronnie Barker Yearbook | 1971 | TV Movie | |
| Six Dates with Barker | 1971 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | 1970 | screenplay | |
| A Christmas Night with the Stars | 1969 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| The Magic Christian | 1969 | additional material | |
| Doctor in the House | 1969 | TV Series written by - 1 episode | |
| Marty | TV Series additional material - 7 episodes, 1968 - 1969 writer - 3 episodes, 1968 written by - 1 episode, 1969 | ||
| David Frost Presents | 1969 | TV Series written by - 1 episode | |
| Broaden Your Mind | 1968 | TV Series additional material - 3 episodes | |
| BBC Show of the Week | 1968 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| The Frost Report | 1966-1967 | TV Series writer - 28 episodes | |
| At Last the 1948 Show | 1967 | TV Series writer - 13 episodes | |
| A Degree of Frost | 1964 | TV Movie special material by | |
| That Was the Week That Was | 1962-1963 | TV Series writer - 37 episodes |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Cleese: The Alimony Tour | 2011 | Video executive producer | |
| Pass It On: Coaching Skills for Managers | 2007 | Video short executive producer | |
| Fierce Creatures | 1997 | producer | |
| Look at the State We're In! | 1995 | TV Mini-Series executive producer - 6 episodes | |
| Grime Goes Green: Your Business and the Environment | 1990 | Video executive producer | |
| The Helping Hand | 1990 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | executive producer | |
| All Change | 1988 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| The Importance of Mistakes | 1988 | Video short executive producer | |
| Return on Investment | 1986 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| Fairly Secret Army | 1984-1986 | TV Series executive producer - 12 episodes | |
| Budgeting | 1984 | Video short executive producer | |
| More Bloody Meetings | 1984 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| Perishing Solicitors | 1983 | TV Movie executive producer | |
| The Secret Policeman's Other Ball | 1982 | Documentary producer - uncredited | |
| You'll Soon Get the Hang of It | 1981 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| Cost, Profit, and Break-Even | 1980 | Video short executive producer | |
| Depreciation and Inflation | 1980 | Video short executive producer | |
| The Secret Policeman's Ball | 1979 | TV Movie documentary producer - uncredited | |
| I'd Like a Word with You | 1979 | Video short executive producer | |
| The Control of Working Capital | 1978 | Video short executive producer | |
| How Am I Doing? | 1977 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| The Balance Sheet Barrier | 1977 | Video short executive producer | |
| The Unorganized Manager, Part One: Damnation | 1977 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| The Unorganized Manager, Part Two: Salvation | 1977 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| The Unorganized Manager, Part Four: Revelations | 1977 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| The Unorganized Manager, Part Three: Lamentations | 1977 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| Meetings, Bloody Meetings | 1976 | Video short executive producer | |
| Pleasure at Her Majesty's | 1976 | TV Movie documentary producer - uncredited | |
| Can We Please Have That the Right Way Round? | 1976 | Video short executive producer | |
| The Cold Call | 1976 | Video short executive producer | |
| Awkward Customers | 1975 | Video short executive producer | |
| Decisions, Decisions | 1975 | Video short executive producer | |
| In Two Minds | 1975 | Video short executive producer | |
| More Akward Customers | 1975 | Video short executive producer | |
| How Not to Exhibit Yourself | 1975 | Video short executive producer | |
| I'll Think About It | 1975 | Video short executive producer | |
| Who Sold You This, Then? | 1975 | Video short executive producer | |
| It's Alright, It's Only a Customer | 1975 | Short executive producer | |
| The Competitive Spirit | 1975 | Video documentary short executive producer | |
| The Meeting of Minds | 1975 | Video short executive producer | |
| Man Hunt | 1974 | Video documentary short executive producer |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spud | 2010 | performer: "Big Boss" | |
| Will & Grace | 2004 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| George of the Jungle | 1997 | performer: "My Way" | |
| Mystery Science Theater 3000 | 1996 | TV Series lyrics - 1 episode | |
| The Meaning of Life | 1983 | lyrics: "Oh Lord Please Don't Burn Us" / performer: "Oh Lord Please Don't Burn Us" | |
| Fawlty Towers | 1979 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Muppet Show | 1977 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | lyrics: "Camelot Song Knights of the Round Table" | |
| Monty Python's Flying Circus | TV Series 1 episode, 1970 performer - 4 episodes, 1969 - 1972 |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stranger Than Fiction | 2006 | footage: Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" courtesy of | |
| Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | 1982 | Documentary stage director - as Monty Python | |
| The Secret Policeman's Ball | 1979 | TV Movie documentary stage director | |
| And Now for Something Completely Different | 1971 | presenter - as Monty Python | |
| The Frost Programme | 1966 | TV Series programme editor - 1 episode |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | uncredited | |
| Giroblauw met John Cleese | 1981 | TV Short | |
| Away from It All | 1979 | Short as Friend |
Assistant Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Secret Policeman's Other Ball | 1982 | Documentary assistant director |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tommy Oliver and the Fighting Spirit | 2015 | Short inspiration | |
| Colin & Brad: Two Man Group | 2011 | TV Movie Brad thanks | |
| Edición Especial Coleccionista | 2010 | TV Series dedicatee - 1 episode | |
| The Secret Life of Brian | 2007 | TV Movie documentary thanks | |
| Inside 'Die Another Day' | 2003 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| Restaurant Dogs | 1994 | Short special thanks - as Monty Python |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul O'Grady Live | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| John Cleese: The Alimony Tour | 2011 | Video | Himself |
| Robins | 2010 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Life on Planet 51 | 2010 | Video documentary short | Professor Kipple (voice, uncredited) |
| Just for Laughs | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut | 2009 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| Monty Python Almost the Truth Obligatory Making of Special | 2009 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself / Basil Fawlty |
| Mitgefühl, Weisheit und Humor | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Beyond a Joke | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Re-Imagining 'The Day' | 2009 | Video documentary short | |
| The Bonnie Hunt Show | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Movie Connections | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Batteries Not Included | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Loose Women | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Seventh Python | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Legends | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Frost Report Is Back | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Hannity & Colmes | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| Behind the Director's Son's Cut | 2007 | Video short | Himself / Halfdan the Black |
| More Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Charlotte's Web: Some Voices | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Just for Laughs | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Secret Life of Brian | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Greatest Ever Comedy Movies | 2006 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The South Bank Show | 1986-2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Greatest Ever Blockbuster Movies | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Art of Football from A to Z | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Monty Python's Personal Best | 2006 | TV Series | Himself / Various Characters |
| The Funny Blokes of British Comedy | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Return of the Goodies | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Fawlty Towers Revisited | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Dokument: Humor | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Avenue of the Stars: 50 Years of ITV | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| Making of: Valiant | 2005 | Video documentary short | Mercury (voice, uncredited) |
| Britain's 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Comic Relief: Red Nose Night Live 05 | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| Comedy Connections | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Performance Matters: The Need for Constructive Criticism | 2005 | Video short | Himself |
| The Power of the Sun | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Funny Ladies of British Comedy | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Arena | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Na plovárne | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Ultimate Film | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| Meet the Cast of Shrek 2 | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| 2nd Irish Film and Television Awards | 2004 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| Wine for the Confused | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| Wetten, dass..? | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| VH1 Goes Inside | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| I Love '70s | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| X-Play | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | 2001-2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute | 2004 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Britain's Best Sitcom | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Timeshift | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| With Friends Like These | 2003 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| John Cleese's the Meaning of Life | 2003 | Video short | Himself / Various roles (voice) |
| The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life' | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Stupidity | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
| Inside 'Die Another Day' | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Rove Live | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do | 2003 | TV Special | Himself |
| Something Fishy | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| James Bond: A BAFTA Tribute | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself / R |
| Shaken and Stirred on Ice | 2002 | Video documentary short | Q |
| Best Ever Bond | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Die Another Day: From Script to Screen | 2002 | Video | Himself |
| Premiere Bond: Die Another Day | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| E! True Hollywood Story | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| 2002 ABC World Stunt Awards | 2002 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter (uncredited) |
| Heroes of Comedy | 1997-2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Going to a Meeting, Part 1: Messing Up a Meeting | 2002 | Video short | Himself - Presenter |
| Going to a Meeting, Part 2: Meeting Menaces | 2002 | Video short | Himself - Presenter |
| Making 'Rat Race' | 2001 | Video short documentary | Himself |
| MADtv | 1999-2001 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Teaching Awards 2001 | 2001 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Sketch Show Story | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Fawlty Towers: An Interview with John Cleese | 2001 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Lemurs | 2001 | TV Short documentary | Presenter / Narrator |
| The Human Face | 2001 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| Parkinson | 1980-2001 | TV Series | Himself |
| Comic Relief Short Pants | 2001 | TV Special short | Himself |
| Can You Spare a Moment? | 2001 | Video short | Himself - Presenter |
| Clockwatching with Mr. Cleese | 2001 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Heroes for the Planet: A Tribute to National Geographic | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big | 2000 | Short | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| From Spam to Sperm | 2000 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Night of a Thousand Shows | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Brigitte & Friends | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Pythonland | 1999 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Comedy Trail: A Shaggy Dog Story | 1999 | TV Special short | Himself (voice) |
| Mickey Mouse Works | 1999 | TV Series short | Himself - Narrator |
| The Bond Cocktail | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Comme au cinéma | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| 30 Years of Monty Python, a Revelation | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| John Cleese & Anders Lund Madsen | 1999 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| The BFI London Imax Signature Film | 1999 | Short | Himself |
| Laughter in the House: The Story of British Sitcom | 1999 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself / 'Basil Fawlty' |
| Comic Relief: The Record Breaker | 1999 | TV Special | Himself |
| Steve Martin: Seriously Funny | 1999 | Documentary | Himself |
| The World's Best Sellers: The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The John Cleese Interview | 1998 | Video documentary | Himself |
| In the Wild | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Funny Women | 1998 | TV Series documentary short | Himself |
| Amazing World of Animals | 1998 | TV Series | Himself |
| Kiss Me Kate | 1998 | TV Series | Himself |
| Monty Python's Flying Circus: Live at Aspen | 1998 | TV Special | Himself / Various Roles |
| Dennis Miller Live | 1998 | TV Series | Himself |
| John Cleeses fornemmelse for humor | 1997 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| Mundo VIP | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| Lo + plus | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| Sen kväll med Luuk | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| TFI Friday | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| Saturday Night Live | 1997 | TV Series | Himself / Various / Mr. Praline |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| Spike | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Late Show with David Letterman | 1995-1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| Auntie's All-Time Greats | 1996 | TV Movie | Himself |
| What You Really Need to Know About... Strokes | 1996 | Video documentary | Himself - Introduction |
| What You Really Need to Know About... Ulcers: Gastric and Duodenal Peptic Ulcers | 1995 | Video documentary short | Himself - Introduction |
| Charlie Rose | 1995 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Making of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book' | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - 'Dr. Plumford' |
| Amnesty International's Big 30 | 1991 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Helping Hand | 1990 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Wogan | 1985-1990 | TV Series | Himself |
| Omnibus | 1976-1990 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Life of Python | 1990 | TV Special documentary | Himself / Various Roles |
| Think or Sink | 1990 | Video short | Himself |
| Hysteria 2! | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Movie Life of George | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python | 1989 | TV Special | Himself (cameo) / Various Roles (achive footage) |
| The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (as Spitting Image) |
| The 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
| Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
| Aspel & Company | 1986-1988 | TV Series | Himself |
| Late Night with David Letterman | 1983-1988 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest |
| The 2nd Annual American Comedy Awards | 1988 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| An Audience with Peter Ustinov | 1988 | TV Movie | Himself |
| All Change | 1988 | Video documentary short | H.G. Wells |
| The Importance of Mistakes | 1988 | Video short | Himself |
| The Secret Policeman's Third Ball | 1987 | Documentary | Jim Cleese |
| The Grand Knockout Tournament | 1987 | TV Special | Himself |
| Return on Investment | 1986 | Video documentary short | Julian Carruthers |
| $ucces Part One | 1986 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Telephone Behaviour: The Power and the Perils | 1986 | Video short | Himself |
| More Bloody Meetings | 1984 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Secret Policeman's Private Parts | 1984 | Documentary | Himself |
| Group Madness | 1983 | Documentary | Himself |
| Good Morning Britain | 1983 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Meaning of Monty Python's Meaning of Life | 1983 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| The Secret Policeman's Other Ball | 1982 | Documentary | Himself / Various Roles |
| Head for Business | 1982 | Documentary short | |
| You'll Soon Get the Hang of It | 1981 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Peter Cook & Co. | 1980 | TV Movie | Himself - Various Characters |
| Les rendez-vous du dimanche | 1980 | TV Series | Himself |
| Away from It All | 1979 | Short | Himself - Narrator (voice, as Nigel Farquhar-Bennett) |
| The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979 | 1979 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Secret Policeman's Ball | 1979 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Various Roles |
| Friday Night, Saturday Morning | 1979 | TV Series | Himself |
| Not the Nine O'Clock News | 1979 | TV Series | Himself |
| Food, Wine & Friends | 1979 | TV Series | Himself |
| Mad Dogs and Cricketers | 1979 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| How Am I Doing? | 1977 | Video documentary short | Ethelred the Unready Ivan the Terrible William the Silent |
| The Unorganized Manager, Part One: Damnation | 1977 | Video documentary short | St. Peter |
| The Unorganized Manager, Part Two: Salvation | 1977 | Video documentary short | St. Peter |
| The Muppet Show | 1977 | TV Series | Himself - Special Guest Star |
| The Mermaid Frolics | 1977 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Various |
| The Unorganized Manager, Part Four: Revelations | 1977 | Video documentary short | St. Peter |
| The Unorganized Manager, Part Three: Lamentations | 1977 | Video documentary short | St. Peter |
| Pleasure at Her Majesty's | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Pet Shop Customer / The Pope / Various |
| Can We Please Have That the Right Way Round? | 1976 | Video short | Himself |
| The Cold Call | 1976 | Video short | Himself |
| Awkward Customers | 1975 | Video short | Himself |
| In Two Minds | 1975 | Video short | Himself |
| More Akward Customers | 1975 | Video short | Himself |
| How Not to Exhibit Yourself | 1975 | Video short | Himself |
| I'll Think About It | 1975 | Video short | Himself |
| It's Alright, It's Only a Customer | 1975 | Short | Himself |
| The Competitive Spirit | 1975 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Meeting of Minds | 1975 | Video short | Himself |
| Man Hunt | 1974 | Video documentary short | Ethelred the Unready Ivan the Terrible William the Silent |
| Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report | 1974 | TV Short documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Sez Les | 1971-1974 | TV Series | Himself - Various Characters |
| The Midnight Special | 1973-1974 | TV Series | Himself |
| Jokers Wild | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Two Ronnies | 1971 | TV Series | Himself / Various Characters |
| Euroshow 71 | 1971 | TV Movie | Himself - Various (as Montypython Flyingcircus) |
| The Ronnie Barker Yearbook | 1971 | TV Movie | Himself - Various Characters |
| Goodbye Again | 1969 | TV Series | Little John |
| David Frost Presents | 1969 | TV Series | Himself / Dad / Pepperpot / ... |
| The Goon Show | 1968 | TV Short | Himself / Announcer |
| At Last the 1948 Show | 1967 | TV Series | Himself - Various Characters |
| Dee Time | 1967 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Frost Programme | 1966 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Nightly Show | 2017 | TV Series | Himself |
| WGN Morning News | 2017 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Phone Interview |
| Conan | 2015-2016 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| CBS News Sunday Morning | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Revisited | 2015 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Real Time with Bill Maher | 2014-2015 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Fawlty at Forty | 2015 | TV Series short | Himself - Host |
| The Last Leg | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Late Night with Seth Meyers | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Monty Python |
| Jan Gintberg møder John Cleese | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Titel, Thesen, Temperamente | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| Lorraine | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Skavlan | 2010-2014 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Canada A.M. | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Daily Show | 1997-2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Graham Norton Show | 2010-2014 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
| Imagine | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The One Show | 2010-2013 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
| The Last Impresario | 2013 | Documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| The Meaning of Monty Python | 2013 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Goodbye Television Centre | 2013 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Funny Business | 2013 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Many Faces of... | 2011-2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Various Characters |
| Anatomy of a Liar | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| Adam Hills in Gordon St Tonight | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| John Howard Davies: A Life in Comedy | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Comedy Britain | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Efter Tio | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Making of 'The World Is Not Enough' | 1999 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| And It's Goodnight from Him: The Very Best of Ronnie Barker | 1996 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time | 1994 | Video Game | Himself - Various |
| Doctor Who: 30 Years in the Tardis | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Art Gallery Visitor (uncredited) |
| There Now Follows... | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Comic Relief: The Invasion of the Comic Tomatoes | 1993 | TV Special | Himself on Wogan |
| Funny Business | 1992 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Auntie's Bloomers | 1991 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1991 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Cheers | 1990 | TV Series | Dr. Simon Royce-Finch |
| Harry Måneskin | 1990 | TV Series | Archie Leach |
| Muppet Video: Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff | 1985 | Video | Himself |
| Of Muppets and Men: The Making of 'The Muppet Show' | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| That's the Way the Money Goes | 1978 | TV Series | Customer - Dead Parrot Sketch |
| The Dean Martin Comedy World | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
| Light Entertainment Killers | 1969 | TV Movie | Marcus Rugman |
| Comedy Gold: TV Funniest Ever Sketches | 2017 | TV Movie | |
| 2016: We Remember Part One | 2016 | TV Movie documentary | Basil Fawlty |
| Richard E. Grant on Ealing Comedies | 2016 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves | 2016 | TV Movie documentary | Basil Fawlty (uncredited) |
| Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | 2016 | TV Series | Basil Fawlty |
| The Eighties | 2016 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The One Show | 2016 | TV Series | Himself / Various Characters |
| Generation '66 | 2016 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Many Faces of... | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Various Characters |
| Some Jerk with a Camera | 2015 | TV Series | Nearly Headless Nick |
| Wogan: The Best Of | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| Britain's Best Loved Sitcoms | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Basil Fawlty |
| Comedy Bloopers | 2015 | TV Movie | Basil Fawlty (uncredited) |
| Edición Especial Coleccionista | 2010-2014 | TV Series | Sir Lancelot the Brave The Black Knight Tim the Enchanter ... |
| The Culture Show | 2013 | TV Series documentary | Art Gallery Visitor |
| The Comix Scrutinizer | 2013 | TV Series | Anti-Communist Newscaster |
| Welcome to the Basement | 2012 | TV Series | Narrator |
| Top Gear | 2012 | TV Series | R |
| Tales of Television Centre | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| A Current Affair | 2006-2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Undefeated | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| Great TV Mistakes | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Basil Fawlty (uncredited) |
| 20 to 1 | 2010 | TV Series documentary | King |
| Today Tonight | 2009 | TV Series | Basil Fawlty |
| Live from Studio Five | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| Loose Women | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| Let Loose... The Very Best of 'Loose Women' | 2008 | Video | Himself |
| Losing It: Griff Rhys Jones on Anger | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Basil Fawlty (uncredited) |
| Comedy Connections | 2007-2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Himself - Delivery Man / Various Characters |
| Morir de humor | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Comedy Map of Britain | 2007-2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Various / Himself |
| 50 Greatest Comedy Catchphrases | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Various (uncredited) |
| Hitler: The Comedy Years | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Adolf Hitler Basil Fawlty (uncredited) |
| Room 101 | 2007 | TV Series | Pilot |
| What the Pythons Did Next... | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Various Characters (uncredited) |
| World of Robin Hood | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Robin Hood (uncredited) |
| TV's 50 Greatest Stars | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Various Characters (uncredited) |
| Premiere Bond: Opening Nights | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| ¿De qué te ríes? | 2006 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Passion: Films, Faith & Fury | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The 50 Greatest Comedy Films | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Various Characters (uncredited) |
| Timeshift | 2002-2005 | TV Series documentary | Sherlock Holmes / Himself - Monty Python |
| Paris in the Springtime | 2005 | Video | Art Gallery Visitor |
| 80s | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Basil Fawlty |
| Greatest TV Comedy Moments | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Dead Parrot Man / Basil Fawlty (uncredited) |
| The Comedians' Comedian | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| World's Funniest & Cleverest Commercials | 2004 | Video | Himself |
| Canterbury Tales | 2003 | TV Mini-Series | Comedy Role |
| 30 Years of 'Last of the Summer Wine' | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Sendung ohne Namen | 2002 | TV Series documentary | |
| Heroes of Comedy | 1997-2002 | TV Series documentary | |
| Torquay Tourist Guide | 2001 | Video documentary short | Basil Fawlty (uncredited) |
| Have I Got News for You | 2001 | TV Series | Basil Fawlty |
| The Greatest | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Basil Fawlty |
| The Directors | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Sir Peter Ustinov Award | Banff Television Festival | ||
| 1991 | TV Prize | Aftonbladet TV Prize, Sweden | Best Foreign TV Personality - Male (Bästa utländska man) | |
| 1989 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Actor | A Fish Called Wanda (1988) |
| 1989 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Screenplay (Migliore Sceneggiatura Straniera) | A Fish Called Wanda (1988) |
| 1989 | European Silver Ribbon | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | A Fish Called Wanda (1988) | |
| 1987 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series | Cheers (1982) |
| 1987 | Peter Sellers Award for Comedy | Evening Standard British Film Awards | Clockwise (1986) | |
| 1980 | BAFTA TV Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Light Entertainment Performance | Fawlty Towers (1975) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | VES Award | Visual Effects Society Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture | Shrek the Third (2007) |
| 2005 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Voice-Over Performance | Shrek 2 (2004) |
| 2004 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | Will & Grace (1998) |
| 2003 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Acting Ensemble | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
| 2002 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Non-Fiction Special (Informational) | The Human Face (2001) |
| 2001 | Video Premiere Award | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Audio Commentary | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |
| 1998 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996) |
| 1989 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | A Fish Called Wanda (1988) |
| 1989 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical | A Fish Called Wanda (1988) |
| 1989 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Screenplay - Original | A Fish Called Wanda (1988) |
| 1989 | Edgar | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Motion Picture | A Fish Called Wanda (1988) |
| 1989 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | A Fish Called Wanda (1988) |
| 1976 | BAFTA TV Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Light Entertainment Performance | Fawlty Towers (1975) |
| 1976 | Hugo | Hugo Awards | Best Dramatic Presentation | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |
Known for movies
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
as Archie Leach
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
as Second Swallow-Savvy Guard / The Black Knight / Peasant 3 / Sir Lancelot the Brave / Taunting French Guard / Tim the Enchanter
Life of Brian (1979)
as Wise Man #1 / Reg / Jewish Official / First Centurion / Deadly Dirk / Arthur
The Meaning of Life (1983)
as Fish #2 / Dr. Spencer / Humphrey Williams / Sturridge / Ainsworth / Waiter / Eric's Assistant / Maître D' / Grim Reaper