Artiste
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and television presenter. After emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he achieved early success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and worked as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, Cleese cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe behind the surreal sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus. Alongside costars Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, he starred in feature films including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and The Meaning of Life.
