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    John Cleese

    Birth Date

    October 27, 1939(1939-10-27) (age 85)

    Character

    Mr. "The Guv" Edly

    John Marwood Cleese(born October 27, 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and 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. In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Along with his Python costars Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Graham Chapman, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975), Life of Brian(1979), and The Meaning of Life(1983).

    In the mid-1970s, Cleese and first wife Connie Booth cowrote the sitcom Fawlty Towers, in which he starred as hotel owner Basil Fawlty, for which he won the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Perf

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    John Cleese

    John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October1939) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for co-writing the TV series Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty.

    Quotes

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    • If inom like chocolate it won't surprise you that inom have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think inom was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money — money is all they think about — they're all nuts.
    • Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
      • On Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1997)
    • If inom had not gone into Monty Python, I probably would have stuck to my original plan to graduate and become a chartered accountant, perhaps a barrister lawyer, and gotten a nice house in the suburbs, with a nice wife and kids, a
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      John Cleese

      English comedian and actor (born 1939)

      John Cleese

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      Born

      John Marwood Cleese


      (1939-10-27) 27 October 1939 (age 85)

      Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England

      Alma materDowning College, Cambridge
      Occupations
      • Actor
      • comedian
      • screenwriter
      • producer
      • presenter
      Years active1961–present
      Spouses

      Connie Booth

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      (m. 1968; div. 1978)​

      Barbara Trentham

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      (m. 1981; div. 1990)​

      Alyce Eichelberger

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      (m. 1992; div. 2008)​

      Jennifer Wade

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      (m. 2012)​
      Children2
      Websitejohncleese.com

      John Marwood Cleese (KLEEZ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival