John Marwood Cleese (/ˈkliːz/; born 27 October 1939) is an British-American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringeand as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded 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, Monty Python and the 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, with Cleese receiving the 1980 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance. Later, he co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures, both of which he also wrote. He also starred in Clockwise and has appeared in many other films, including two James Bond films as R and Q, two Harry Potter films, three Spud films as The Guv, and the last three Shrek films.
With Yes Minister writer Antony Jay, he co-founded Video Arts, a production company making entertaining training films. In 1976, Cleese co-founded The Secret Policeman's Ball benefit shows to raise funds for the human rights organization Amnesty International.
Filmography[]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) - Nearly Headless Nick
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - Nearly Headless Nick
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) - James
External links[]
- Official website
- John Cleese at Harry Potter Wiki
- John Cleese at James Bond Wiki
- John Cleese at Spud Wiki
John Cleese at the Internet Movie Database- John Cleese at the Museum of Broadcast Communications
- John Cleese at the BBC Guide to Comedy
- Podcast to celebrate The Life of Brian (March 2008)
- Daily Llama: John Cleese Visits Lemurs at San Francisco Zoo
- John Cleese Speaking at the American School in London
- A Conversation with John Cleese at Cornell University (September 2017)
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