John Marwood Cleese born 27 October 1939 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 Pythons 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 cowrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers Later he costarred 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 cofounded the production company Video Arts responsible for making entertaining training films Description above from the Wikipedia article John Cleese licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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