John Cleese

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1939 age 0

   Born

2. 1971 age 32

   CreditAnd Now for Something Completely Different

   CreditAnd Now for Something Completely Differentscreenwriter

3. 1975 age 36

   CreditMonty Python and the Holy Grail

   CreditMonty Python and the Holy Grailscreenwriter

4. 1979 age 40

   CreditMonty Python’s Life of Brian

   CreditMonty Python’s Life of Brianproducer

   CreditMonty Python’s Life of Brianscreenwriter

5. 1981 age 42

   CreditTime Bandits

6. 1983 age 44

   CreditMonty Python's The Meaning of Life

   CreditMonty Python's The Meaning of Lifescreenwriter

7. 1985 age 46

   CreditSilverado

8. 1988 age 49

   CreditA Fish Called Wanda

   CreditA Fish Called Wandadirector

   CreditA Fish Called Wandascreenwriter

9. 1994 age 55

   CreditMary Shelley's Frankenstein

   CreditRudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book

10. 1997 age 58

    CreditGeorge of the Jungle

11. 1999 age 60

    CreditThe World Is Not Enough

12. 2001 age 62

    CreditHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    CreditRat Race

13. 2002 age 63

    CreditDie Another Day

    CreditHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

14. 2003 age 64

    CreditCharlie's Angels: Full Throttle

15. 2004 age 65

    CreditAround the World in 80 Days

16. 2006 age 67

    CreditCharlotte's Web

17. 2008 age 69

    CreditThe Day the Earth Stood Still

18. 2009 age 70

    CreditThe Pink Panther 2

19. 2013 age 74

    CreditThe Croodsscreenwriter

20. 2021 age 82

    CreditClifford the Big Red Dog

• MPMichael Palin7 titles
• TGTerry Gilliam6 titles
• TJTerry Jones5 titles
• GCGraham Chapman5 titles
• EIEric Idle5 titles
• CCCarol Cleveland5 titles
• KBKathy Bates4 titles
• JDJulian Doyle4 titles
• LHLindy Hemming3 titles
• RCRobbie Coltrane3 titles

• Spouse

  • CBConnie Booth

• Children

  • CCCynthia Cleese

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Four hundred years ago, we would have been burnt for this film. Now, I'm suggesting that we've made an advance.

  John Cleese, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money — money is all they think about — they're all nuts.

  John Cleese, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

  John Cleese, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If I had not gone into Monty Python, I probably would have stuck to my original plan to graduate and become a chartered accountant, perhaps a barrister lawyer, and gotten a nice house in the suburbs, with a nice wife and kids, and gotten a country club membership, and then I would have killed myself.

  John Cleese, CC BY-SA 4.0

• No puns, no puns, no puns.

  John Cleese, CC BY-SA 4.0

• He who laughs most, learns best.

  John Cleese, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Years active

1961–

Education

Clifton College, Downing College, University of Cambridge