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John Cleese

Highest Rated:
96% Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Lowest Rated:
0% Pinocchio (2002)
Birthday:
Oct 27, 1939
Birthplace:
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England
Bio:
An instigator of some of the more groundbreaking developments in twentieth-century comedy, John Cleese is one of Britain's best-known actors, writers, and comedians. Famous primarily for his comic efforts, such as the television series Fawlty Towers and the exploits of the Monty Python troupe, he…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 96%
Number of Movies: 94
Box Office Since 2001: $2866.7M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 91% Winnie the Pooh
  • Narrator
$26.7M
2011 39% The Big Year
  • Historical Montage Narrator
$7.2M
2011 Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut
  • Actor
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2011 96% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
  • Actor
$381.0M
2010 Spud
  • Actor
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2010 58% Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4)
  • King
$238.3M
2009 The Art Of Football
  • Actor
  • Screenwriter
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2009 Monty Python Almost the Truth Obligatory Making of Special
  • Actor
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2009 22% Planet 51
  • Professor Kipple
$42.2M
2009 12% Pink Panther 2
  • Dreyfus
$35.9M
2008 35% Igor
  • Dr. Glickenstein
$19.4M
2008 Art Of Soccer
  • Actor
--
2008 The Seventh Python
  • Actor
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2008 Monty Python: The Other British Invasion
  • Actor
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2008 21% The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Professor Barnhardt
$79.1M
2007 41% Shrek the Third
  • King
$320.7M
2006 L'Entente cordiale
  • Actor
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2006 78% Charlotte's Web
  • Samuel the Sheep
$82.5M
2006 John Cleese's Personal Best
  • Actor
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2006 Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys 2
  • Actor
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2005 38% Man About Town
  • Dr. Primkin
--
2005 31% Valiant
  • Mercury
$19.4M
2005 Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
  • British Expert
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2004 Wine for the Confused
  • Actor
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2004 31% Around the World in 80 Days
  • The Balloon Man
$23.9M
2004 89% Shrek 2
  • King Harold
$436.5M
2004 John Cleese's Wine for the Confused
  • Actor
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2004 91% Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Nearly Headless Nick
$249.4M
2003 44% Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle
  • Director
  • Mr. Munday
$100.7M
2003 20% George Of The Jungle 2
  • Ape
--
2003 Romance With A Double Bass
  • Actor
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2003 67% Stupidity
  • Actor
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2002 0% Pinocchio
  • Actor
$3.6M
2002 59% Die Another Day
  • Q
$160.2M
2002 17% Scorched
  • Charles Merchant
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2002 83% Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Nearly Headless Nick
$261.8M
2002 6% The Adventures of Pluto Nash
  • James
$4.4M
2001 80% Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
  • Nearly Headless Nick
$317.6M
2001 Beauty
  • Actor
--
2001 44% Rat Race
  • Donald Sinclair
$55.8M
2001 Mickey's Magical Christmas - Snowed in at the House of Mouse
  • Narrator
--
2000 Quantum Project
  • Alexander Pentcho
--
2000 The Magic Pudding
  • Albert The Magic Pudding
--
2000 25% Isn't She Great
  • Henry Marcus
--
1999 51% The World Is Not Enough
  • R
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1999 23% The Out-Of-Towners
  • Mr. Mersault
--
1998 In the Wild - Lemurs with John Cleese
  • Actor
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1998 Parting Shots
  • Maurice Walpole
--
1998 Secret Policeman's Ball
  • Actor
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1997 55% Fierce Creatures
  • Rolo Lee
  • Screenwriter
--
1997 56% George of the Jungle
  • Ape
--
1996 75% The Wind in the Willows (Mr. Toad's Wild Ride)
  • Mr. Toad's Lawyer
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1994 44% Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • Professor Waldman
--
1994 95% Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
  • Dr. Plumford
--
1994 44% The Swan Princess
  • Jean-Bob
--
1993 8% Splitting Heirs
  • Raoul P. Shadgrind
--
1991 40% An American Tail - Fievel Goes West
  • Cat R. Waul
  • Director
--
1990 Life of Python
  • Actor
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1990 Bullseye
  • Man on Beach in Barbados
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1990 Monty Python's Parrot Sketch Not Included
  • Actor
--
1989 47% Erik The Viking
  • Halfdan the Black
--
1989 40% Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
  • Actor
--
1989 93% The Big Picture
  • Actor
--
1989 The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball
  • Actor
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1988 96% A Fish Called Wanda
  • Screenwriter
  • Archie Leach
  • Director
--
1987 The Secret Policeman's Third Ball
  • Actor
--
1986 Clockwise
  • Brian Stimpson
--
1985 76% Silverado
  • Sheriff Langston
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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
  • Second Fish Grim
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1983 22% Yellowbeard
  • Harvey "Blind" Pew
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1982 Privates on Parade
  • Maj. Giles Flack
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1982 The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
  • Actor
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1982 Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
  • Various roles
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1981 Secret Policeman's Private Parts
  • Actor
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1981 Whoops Apocalypse
  • Actor
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1981 The Secret Policeman's Ball
  • Actor
--
1981 95% Time Bandits
  • Robin Hood
--
1981 74% The Great Muppet Caper
  • Neville
--
1980 The Taming of the Shrew
  • Petruchio
--
1979 96% Monty Python's Life of Brian
  • Screenwriter
  • Centurion
$0.4M
1977 The Mermaid Frolics
  • Actor
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1977 Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
  • Arthur Sherlock Holmes
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1976 Pleasure at Her Majesty's (Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe)
  • Actor
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1974 95% Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Black Knight
  • Screenwriter
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1974 Romance With a Double Bass
  • Musician Smychkov
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1971 Statue
  • Harry
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1971 90% Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different
  • Actor
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1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  • Screenwriter
  • Plumer
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1969 53% The Magic Christian
  • Director In Sotheby's
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1968 John Cleese on How to Irritate People
  • Actor
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1968 Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
  • Actor
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1967 At Last the 1948 Show
  • Actor
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1957 Interlude
  • 'rV Publicist
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