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Eric Idle

Highest Rated:
96% Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Lowest Rated:
0% Pinocchio (2002)
Birthday:
Mar 29, 1943
Birthplace:
South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Bio:
The "matinee idol" of the motley Monty Python crew, Eric Idle attended Cambridge University, where he served as president of the Footlights Revue. Idle's fellow college troupers included future Pythonites John Cleese and Graham Chapman. After getting his start on such TV series as Do Not Adjust Your…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 96%
Number of Movies: 54
Box Office Since 2001: $769.0M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut
  • Actor
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2011 89% George Harrison: Living In The Material World
  • Actor
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2010 51% Alice in Wonderland
  • Actor
$319.3M
2010 Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
  • Screenwriter
  • Actor
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2009 Monty Python Almost the Truth Obligatory Making of Special
  • Actor
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2008 Monty Python: The Other British Invasion
  • Actor
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2008 12% Delgo
  • Spig
$0.5M
2008 The Seventh Python
  • Actor
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2007 41% Shrek the Third
  • Merlin
$320.7M
2006 91% Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?
  • Actor
$29.8k
2005 Eric Idle's Personal Best
  • Actor
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2005 80% The Aristocrats
  • Actor
$6.1M
2005 Nutcracker And The Mouse King
  • Actor
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2004 50% Ella Enchanted
  • Narrator
$22.8M
2004 The Nutcracker and the Mouseking
  • Drosselmeier
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2003 30% Hollywood Homicide
  • Celebrity
$30.0M
2003 Christmas Vacation 2 - Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
  • Actor
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2003 94% Concert for George
  • Actor
$70.0k
2003 The Rutles 2 - Can't Buy Me Lunch
  • Director
  • Dirk McQuickley
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2002 The Scream Team
  • Coffin Ed
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2002 0% Pinocchio
  • Actor
$3.6M
2000 31% 102 Dalmatians
  • Waddlesworth
$65.4M
1999 14% Dudley Do-Right
  • The Prospector
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1999 81% South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
  • Actor
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1998 The Secret of NIMH 2 - Timmy to the Rescue
  • Actor
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1998 36% Quest For Camelot
  • Devon
  • Director
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1998 40% Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Movie
  • Slyly the Fox
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1997 8% An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
  • Alan Smithee
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1996 75% The Wind in the Willows (Mr. Toad's Wild Ride)
  • Rat
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1995 43% Casper
  • Dibs
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1993 8% Splitting Heirs
  • Tommy Patel
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1992 11% Mom and Dad Save the World
  • King Raff
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1991 Missing Pieces
  • Actor
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1991 20% Too Much Sun
  • Sonny Rivers
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1990 47% Nuns on the Run
  • Brian Hope
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1990 Life of Python
  • Actor
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1990 Monty Python's Parrot Sketch Not Included
  • Actor
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1989 89% The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  • Berthold
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1989 Around the World in 80 Days
  • Actor
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1987 The Mikado
  • Ko-Ko
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1986 47% The Transformers - The Movie
  • Actor
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1985 38% National Lampoon's European Vacation
  • Bike rider
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1984 The Secret Policeman's Private Parts
  • Actor
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1983 89% Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
  • Fourth Fish
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1983 22% Yellowbeard
  • Cmdr. Clement
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1982 Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
  • Various roles
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1982 Faerie Tale Theatre - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  • Actor
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1981 Secret Policeman's Private Parts
  • Actor
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1979 96% Monty Python's Life of Brian
  • Loretta
  • Screenwriter
$0.4M
1978 90% The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
  • Dirk McQuickley
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1977 58% Jabberwocky
  • Actor
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1974 95% Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Screenwriter
  • Concorde
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1971 90% Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different
  • Various roles
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1939 Mikado
  • Actor
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