Terry Gilliam
Highest Rated: 100% An Accidental Studio: The Story of HandMade Films (2019)
Lowest Rated: 31% Tideland (2005)
Birthday: Nov 22, 1940
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
A successful animator who worked for several magazines and British television shows before becoming famous, Terry Gilliam became the quiet sixth member of the famed comedy troupe Monty Python before graduating to the status of acclaimed feature director. Though he spent little time working in front of the camera, save for small roles the other five Pythons refused to play, Gilliam was responsible for the infamous cut-out animation that was used in the opening credits and as a segue between skits on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (BBC, 1969-1974). After co-directing the troupe's first official feature, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975), he ventured off on his own to make visually striking and surrealist films like "Jabberwocky" (1976), "Time Bandits" (1981) and the acclaimed comedic dystopia "Brazil" (1985). In 2000, his first stab at "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" (2009) was plagued by disaster and injury from the start, leading to a nine-year hiatus before returning to production, while "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (2010) suffered the unexpected death of star Heath Ledger in early 2008. Regardless of insurmountable odds, Gilliam trudged forward, continuing to make some of the most imaginative films on both sides of the pond.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | No Score Yet | An Accidental Studio: The Story of HandMade Films | Himself (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 64% | 63% | The Man Who Killed Don Quixote |
Director, Screenwriter |
$392K | 2018 |
| 63% | No Score Yet | Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk | Himself (Character) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Karel Zeman: Adventurer in Film | Himself (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 49% | 43% | The Zero Theorem | Director | $219.4K | 2013 |
| 62% | 59% | For No Good Reason | Himself (Character) | $67.1K | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Adventures in Plymptoons! | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Monster of Nix | The Ranger (Voice) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wholly Family |
Director, Writer |
- | 2011 |
| 92% | 71% | Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 86% | 87% | Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? | Himself (Character) | $28.2K | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy |
Not an Individual/ |
- | 2010 |
| 64% | 60% | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$7.7M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Locked Out | Le faux bébé (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 38% | 39% | The Brothers Grimm | Director | $37.9M | 2005 |
| 31% | 64% | Tideland |
Director, Writer |
$61.2K | 2005 |
| 49% | 89% | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
Director, Screenwriter |
$10.6M | 1998 |
| 89% | 88% | 12 Monkeys | Director | $57.1M | 1995 |
| 84% | 86% | The Fisher King | Director | $39.4M | 1991 |
| 92% | 82% | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Director | $8.6M | 1989 |
| 98% | 90% | Brazil |
Director, Writer |
$3.7M | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Policeman's Private Parts | Himself (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 86% | 83% | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life |
Fish #4 / Director, Writer |
- | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl |
Unknown (Character), Writer |
- | 1982 |
| 90% | 77% | Time Bandits |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1981 |
| 95% | 93% | Life of Brian |
Man Even Further Forward/ Writer, Production Design |
$150.2K | 1979 |
| 50% | 47% | Jabberwocky | Director | $19.2K | 1977 |
| 97% | 95% | Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
Patsy (Arthur's Trusty Steed)/ Director, Writer |
$1.8M | 1975 |
| 88% | 87% | And Now for Something Completely Different |
Self-defence nun/ Writer |
- | 1972 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Couch Surfing |
Unknown (Guest Star), Guest |
2019 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2019 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tavis Smiley | Guest | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood's Best Film Directors | Guest | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Conversation | Guest | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Made in Hollywood | Guest | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live With Regis and Kelly | Guest | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Comedy Connections | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| 100% | 92% | Monty Python's Flying Circus |
Unknown (Character), Writer |
1972-1974 1969-1970 |
QUOTES FROM Terry Gilliam CHARACTERS
Seal and Signet Minister says: Bees are genetically disposed to recognize royalty.
Max says: Can we have your liver then?
Mrs. Brown says: Yeah, all right. You talked me into it.
Old Man from Scene 24 says: Our King? Well i didn't vote for you!!
Old Man from Scene 24 says: Our King? Well I didn't vote for you!
Old Man from Scene 24 says: Stop! WHAT is your name?
King Arthur says: It is Arthur, King of the Britons!
Old Man from Scene 24 says: WHAT is your quest?
King Arthur says: To seek the Holy Grail!
Old Man from Scene 24 says: WHAT is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur says: What do you mean? African or European swallow?
Old Man from Scene 24 says: I, I don't know that! *gets pulled to the sky and thrown down the Gorge of Eternal Peril*
Sir Bedevere says: How do you know so much about swallows?
King Arthur says: Well, you have to know these things when you're king, y'know.
Person says: I think it was "Blessed are the cheesemakers."
Person says: I think it was 'Blessed are the cheesemakers.'
Mrs. Gregory says: What's so special about the cheesemakers?
Man says: Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
King Arthur says: So, where is this beast?
Patsy/Soothsayer says: Don't you see it? It's there, right in front of you!
King Arthur says: What, he's in the cave behind that rabbit
King Arthur says: What, he's in the cave behind that rabbit.
Patsy/Soothsayer says: It is the rabbit!
King Arthur says: ... You silly sod!
Mrs. Brown says: [walks in the room and sees two doctors disembowling her husband] What's going on?
Max says: [the first doctor] He's donating his liver, madame.
Donor says: GAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!
Mrs. Brown says: Is this because he took out one of those silly cards?
Max says: Yes, you're right, madame.
Mrs. Brown says: Typical of the man. He goes down to the public library, sees a few side-up, comes home all full of 'good intentions'. He gives blood, does cold reserch, all that sort of thing.
Donor says: BLAAAUUUUGGGHHH!!!!!!! AUUUGGHHHH!!!! HAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAW!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Mrs. Brown says: What do you do with them all, anyway?
Howard says: [the second doctor] Oh, all go to saving lives, madame.
Mrs. Brown says: That's what he used to say. 'It's ALL for the good of the country' he used to say.
Donor says: AHCK!!! AHCK!!! BLAAAAAUUGGHHHHHA!!!!
Mrs. Brown says: Do you think it's all for the good of the country?
Max says: Hm?
Max says: Well, I wouldn't know about that, madame. We're just doing our jobs.
Mrs. Brown says: ... You're not doctors, then?
Max says: Oh, blimey no. [both doctors laugh]
Old Man from Scene 24 says: What is your name?
Sir Lancelot says: Sir Lancelot of Camelot!
Old Man from Scene 24 says: What is your quest?
Sir Lancelot says: To seek the Holy Grail!
Old Man from Scene 24 says: What is your favorite colour?
Sir Lancelot says: Red!... I mean blue! (falls down the crevice screaming)
Sir Lancelot says: Red!... I mean blue! [falls down the crevice screaming]
Donor says: (hears a ring at the door) Don't worry dear. I'll get it. (opens door) Yes?
Donor says: [hears a ring at the door] Don't worry dear. I'll get it. [opens door] Yes?
Max says: (the first doctor) Hello, can we have your liver?
Max says: [the first doctor] Hello, can we have your liver?
Donor says: What?
Max says: Your liver. It's a large glandular organ in your abdomen.
Donor says: ...
Max says: You know, it's reddish-brown, sort of, um...
Donor says: Yeah, yeah, I know what it is, but, um... I'm using it.
Howard says: (the second doctor) *sigh* Come on sir, don't mug us about. (pulls card out of donor's shirt)
Howard says: [the second doctor] *sigh* Come on sir, don't mug us about. [pulls card out of donor's shirt]
Max says: What's this, then?
Donor says: A liver donor's card...
Max says: Need we say more?
Donor says: Now listen, I can't give it to you now! It says 'in the event of death'!
Max says: (pushes donor on the table) Nobody's ever taken out their liver for US to survive.
Max says: [pushes donor on the table] Nobody's ever taken out their liver for US to survive.
Howard says: Don't worry, this is only gonna take a minute. (drives knife into donor's stomach)
Donor says: GAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! HAWHAWHAWHAW!!!!! GAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
Donor says: GAAAHHHHH! AAAAAHHHHHH! HAWHAWHAWHAW! GAAAAHHHHHH!
Old Man from Scene 24 says: What is your name?
Sir Galahad says: Sir Galahad.
Old Man from Scene 24 says: What is your quest?
Sir Galahad says: I seek the Holy Grail.
Old Man from Scene 24 says: What, is your favorite color?
Sir Galahad says: Red. No! Blue- [Falls into pit]
Sir Galahad says: Red. No! Blue - [falls into pit]