John Marwood Cleese, born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, on 27 October 1939, is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and television presenter who has been active since 1961. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report, and in the late 1960s he cofounded the comedy troupe Monty Python. Within this atlas John Cleese is credited as the creator of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers.
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John Marwood Cleese ( KLEEZ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and television presenter.
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He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Cheers (1987) and was nominated for 3rd Rock from the Sun (1998) and Will & Grace (2004).
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His varied contributions stamp him a polymath of British comedy in the last third of the 20th century.
Fawlty Towers (Wikipedia)
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Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979.
Monty Python's Flying Circus (Wikipedia)
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created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam
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