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John Cleese, (born Oct. 27, 1939, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, Eng.), British actor and screenwriter. He wrote and performed comedy material for British television in the 1960s before helping create the popular comedy show Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–74), which later won a large U.S. following with its surreal brand of humour. He cowrote and acted in the television series Fawlty Towers and collaborated with the rest of the Monty Python troupe on films such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983). His other films included Silverado (1985), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and The Naked Wanderer (2019). Cleese played the ghost Nearly Headless Nick in two Harry Potter films (2001, 2002). He also did voice work in movies that included the Shrek series, Charlotte’s Web (2006), Trolls (2016), and Arctic Dogs (2019).

acting Summary

Acting, the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a fictional character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television. (Read Lee Strasberg’s 1959 Britannica essay on acting.) Acting is generally agreed to be a matter less of mimicry, exhibitionism, or

comedy Summary

Comedy, type of drama or other art form the chief object of which, according to modern notions, is to amuse. It is contrasted on the one hand with tragedy and on the other with farce, burlesque, and other forms of humorous amusement. The classic conception of comedy, which began with Aristotle in

film Summary

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