Michael Palin

Acting

🎂 1943-05-05

Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with Terry Jones. Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as The Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set. Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including "Argument Clinic", "Dead Parrot", "The Lumberjack Song", and "The Spanish Inquisition". Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns. He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. After Python, he began a new career as a travel writer and travel documentarian. His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas and, most recently, Eastern Europe. In 2000 Palin was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Palin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Cast credits(207)

Self

2007

Springfield History Museum curator (voice)

1989

Self - Guest

1993

Self

1995

Self

1975

Self

2007

Self

2011

Self

1998

Self - Host

1975

Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1975

Narrator (voice)

1969

1972

Self - Presenter

1980

Self

2006

Self - Guest

2006

Self - Host

2020

Michael

2020

Self

1982

Self

2009

Self

1976

Various / "It's" man

1969

Michael Palin

2010

Tom Parfitt

2014

Various Characters

1967

Self / Various Characters

2006

Himself

1997

Himself

2007

Himself

1989

Himself

1992

Self

1996

1987

Self - Presenter

2004

1986

Himself

1980

1999

First Swallow-Savvy Guard / Dennis / Peasant 2 / Right Head / Sir Galahad the Pure / Narrator / King of Swamp Castle / Brother Maynard's Brother / Leader of The Knights Who Say NI!

1975

Self

2015

Himself - Host

2018

Self (Presenter)

2012

1976

Gerald Whinfrey

1976

Roger

1976

Kevin Orr / Uncle Jack

1976

Self

1987

2022

Wise Man #3 / Mr. Big Nose / Francis / Mrs. A / Ex-Leper / Announcer / Ben / Pontius Pilate / Boring Prophet / Eddie / Shoe Follower / Nisus Wettus

1979

1967

Jack Lint

1985

Self - Presenter

2002

The Green Man

2019

Ken Pile

1988

Self

2024

Vincent

1981

1968

1989

Himself

2014

Vyacheslav Molotov

2017

Ernie Clicker (voice)

2011

William Makepeace Thackeray

2018

Witch at Meeting (uncredited)

1990

Kindly Alien (voice)

2015

1967

Mrs. Betty Palin / Julius Caesar / Bevis

2010

Gilbert Chilvers

1984

Jim Nelson

1991

Various Roles

1983

Self (archive footage)

2014

Various Characters

1972

1969

Adrian 'Bugsy' Malone

1997

Self

1998

Self

2007

Dennis Cooper

1977

Gumby / Man with tape recorder / Phrasebook Author / Arthur Pewtey / Second self - defence student / Second Tenant / Lost His Wallet / Shrill Petrol Announcer / Milkman / Ernest Scribbler / Pet shop employee / Lumberjack / Headwaiter Gilberto / Herbert Anchovy / Blackmail Presenter / Gervais Brookhamster / Town Guild Lady

1971