John Cleese
Acting
🎂 1939-10-27
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 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
Cast credits(284)
Self
2015
Self
1996
Self
1962
Himself
2014
Self - Guest
2007
Self
2007
Self
1981
Art Gallery Visitor
1963
Marcus Rugman
1961
Self
1975
Self
2001
Self
2013
Dr. Simon Finch-Royce
1982
Self
2008
John Cleese
2004
Dr. Liam Neesam
1996
Self
1967
Self
1998
Self - Guest
2009
Narrator (voice)
1999
2001
Narrator (voice)
2001
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Self
2003
Petruchio
1978
Martin
2016
Nearly Headless Nick
2001
Self - Guest
2006
Lyle Finster (uncredited)
1998
Self
1999
Self
1978
Nearly Headless Nick (Sir Nicholas)
2002
Self
2006
Self
2016
Self - Guest
2006
Self
2009
Quincy Endicott (voice)
2014
Adelaide (voice)
2014
Narrator (voice)
2011
Self
1982
Basil Fawlty
1975
Various / Announcer
1969
King Harold (voice)
2004
King Harold (voice)
2007
Self / Various Characters
2006
King Harold (voice)
2010
1982
Mr. Partridge
1967
Fake Bosse Bo Johansson
1999
Self
2021
1967
1969
self
1969
Roi Gristle (voice)
2016
1979
Self - Special Guest Star
1976
Self
2002
Presenter
2001
Dr. Grant
2011
Q
2002
Basil Fawlty
Minister
1995
2007
1976
Second Swallow-Savvy Guard / The Black Knight / Peasant 3 / Sir Launcelot the Brave / Taunting French Guard / Tim the Enchanter
1975
Mr. Munday
2003
Phil
2018
Self
1995
R
1999
Actor
2020
1996
Donald P. Sinclair
2001
Mr. Bridwell
2021
Bulldog (voice)
2013
Wise Man #1 / Reg / Jewish Official / First Centurion / Deadly Dirk / Arthur
1979
Professor Barnhardt
2008
Himself
2014
Red Lansing
2002
Professor Kipple (voice)
2009
Sheriff John T. Langston
1985
Archie Leach
1988
Self - Host / Presenter
Robin Hood
1981
Dreyfus
2009
An Ape Named 'Ape' (voice)
1997
Samuel the Sheep (voice)
2006
Grizzled Sergeant
2004
Narrator (voice)
2011
Narrator (“Mickey's Mechanical House") (uncredited)
2001
Jean-Bob (voice)
1994
Chief Alien (voice)
2015
Self
1976
Archie Vainglorious (voice)
2023
Mercury (voice)
2005
Dr. Glickenstein (voice)
2008
Various Characters
1972
Dr. Julius Plumford
1994
Cat R. Waul (voice)
1991
Prof. Waldman
1994
Self (archive footage)
2014
Harvey 'Blind' Pew
1983
Bartender
1989
Fairy Godmother / Executioner (voice)
2018
Neville
1981
Various Roles
1983
An Ape Named 'Ape' (voice)
2003
Narrator (segment 'The Nutcracker') (voice)
2001
Historical Montage Narrator (voice)
2011
Donner (voice)
2018
Self
2004
Arthur William Dallas III
2023
Self
1988
Halfdan the Black
1989
McCormick
2012
Dr. Primkin
2006
James
2002
Pumer
1970
Otto von Walrus (voice)
2019
General Eeder
2016
2023
Rollo Lee
1997
Director in Sotheby's
1969
2023
Mr. Mersault
1999
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
1971
Self
2007
Mr. Toad's Lawyer
1996
1992
Narrator
2011
Man on the Beach in Barbados Who Looks Like John Cleese
1990
Self
2020
Mr. 'The Guv' Edly
2010
1966
John Christmas
2021
Brian Stimpson
1986
Charles Merchant
2003
Self
2003
Post Office Clerk
1968
Raoul P. Shadgrind
1993
Frank
2022
Henry Marcus
2000
Self
2013
Various Roles
1982
Self
2008
Various Characters
2006
John
2020
Self
2020
Self
2014
Maurice Walpole
1999
Self
2008
Mr. 'The Guv' Edly
2014
Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
2021
Albert the Magic Pudding (voice)
2000
Lord Conrad
2006
Adolf Hitler / Basil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Self
1987
Self
1989
Self, others
2014
Mr. Bellwood (voice)
2015
Self - Various Roles
1982
Self / R
2002
Mr. 'The Guv' Edly
2013
Major Giles Flack
1983
Self - Presenter
2008
Self
2006
Self
2018
Self
1991
Various (voice)
2012
Self (archive footage)
2011
Various
1973
Self (archive footage)
2019
Sherlock Holmes
1977
Various Characters
2006
Self
1990
Basil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Himself - Various Roles
1979
Self (archive footage)
2007
Self
2007
Dr. Auyeung
2023
Jones
1969
Self
2008
Petruchio
1980
Self
2002
Himself
2002
Brian King
2019
Jim Cleese
1987
Self / Basil Fawlty
2009
Self
1979
Various Characters
2006
Self
1998
Self
1999
Self
2014
2018
Smychkov
1974
Interviewee
2021
Harry
1971
Self
1989
Self (archive footage)
2004
Various Characters
2006
Himself
2019
Himself / Various Characters
1980
Various Characters
2006
Himself
2005
Self
2008
Passerby
1979
Self
1974
Self - Various (as Montypython Flyingcircus)
1971
Self (archive footage)
2019
Self / Various Characters
1989
Self
1999
Self
2012
Self
2021
Noted Behavioral Scientist / Noted Doctor / Leading Social Scientist / Leading Orthopedic Surgeon
2005
Various Characters
2006
Art Gallery Visitor
1979
Self
2023
Self
2010
Kevin
1977
Himself / Various Roles (also archive footage)
1990
Self
2000
Man in Bar
1980
Self
2002
1989
Narrator
1999
Self
2008
Self- Various roles
1977
Self
2004
Self (archive footage)
2004
Timothy
1970
Sherlock Holmes
1973
bogeyhead
Self
1983
Self
2003
1973
1972
Self
2003
Self
2015
Self (archive footage)
2004
Wise Man #1, Reg, Jewish Official, First Centurion
2008
Contraceptives Lecturer
1973
Self
1976
Himself
2005
Alexander Pentcho
2000
Interviewer in lounge
2000
Self
1985
Brian
1989
Brian
1975
Television public relations man
1968
Self (archive footage)
2005
Self
2012
Brian
1989
Brian
1989
Self
1988
Norman Fearless
1979
Himself - Various
1969
1987
Himself
1996
Narrator (voice)
1991
Self
1999
Self
2000
1976
Various Characters
2006
1993
Computer (voice)
1980
Self
2024
2006
1971
Terry
1987
Self
2004
2011
The Giant Alien (voice)
2000
2025
Himself
2005
Self / Basil Fawlty
2009
Nathan
Kendisi
2001
1987
Self
1998
Brian
1989
Nigel Farquhar-Bennett – Narrator (voice)
1979
Brian
1975
John Cleese
1975
1986
Creator (7)
Writing (31)
Writer
1975
Writer
1969
Writer
1962
Writer
1971
Writer
1967
Story
2013
Characters
2020
Writer
1971
Writer
2001
Writer
1995
Writer
1975
Writer
1966
Screenplay
1979
Writer
1988
Screenplay
1983
Writer
1970
Screenplay
1997
Screenplay
1971
Writer
1982
Writer
2014
Screenplay
1977
Writer
1972
Adaptation
1974
Writer
1989
Writer
1977
Screenplay
2008
Writer
1975
Writer
1969
Writer
1971
Writer
1979
Writer
1975
