John Cleese — Playwright (11)
Rentadick (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rentadick
director: Jim Clark actor: James Booth / Richard Briers
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...
Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python
director: Ian MacNaughton actor: Graham Chapman / John Cleese
other title: Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python / Parrot Sketch Not Included - 20 Years of Monty Python
Steve Martin presents selected sketches from "Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)". It's the well known sketches, though the parrot sketch is not included. Steve Martin has some funny comments on the Pythons.
Fierce Creatures (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Fierce Creatures
other title: Creature selvagge / Bidske bæster
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977) [Movie] WikiData Skybridge IMDb TMDB
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
director: Joseph McGrath actor: John Cleese / Arthur Lowe
other title: Sherlock Holmes oder Der sonderbare Fall vom Ende der Zivilisation / L'étrange affaire de la fin de la civilisation que nous connaissons
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
Fawlty Towers: The Play [Performance] NeoDB Douban
Fawlty Towers: The Play
genre: theater playwright: John Cleese
other title: 弗尔蒂旅馆:舞台剧 director: Caroline Jay Ranger actor: Adam Jackson-Smith / Anna-Jane Casey



Nearly 50 years since it first hit our TV screens, the ‘Greatest British sitcom of all time’ (Radio Times) is now a brand-new stage play, adapted by comedy legend John Cleese and directed by Caroline Jay Ranger.

Starring Adam Jackson-Smith as the inimitable Basil, Anna-Jane Casey as the iconic Sybil and Paul Nicholas as the bumbling Major, this 18-strong cast take on the iconic characters at Torquay’s most chaotic hotel – Fawlty Towers!

Featuring your favourite scenes from the sitcom’s unforgettable twelve episodes, this really is the stage comedy event of the year!

And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
And Now for Something Completely Different
director: Ian MacNaughton actor: Graham Chapman / John Cleese
other title: E... ora qualcosa di completamente diverso / Monty Python: Livet er Python
A collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb Skybridge
The Meaning of Life
director: Terry Jones actor: Terry Gilliam / Graham Chapman
other title: Monty Python - Il senso della vita / Monty Python - the Meaning of Life
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Life of Brian (1979) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB Skybridge IMDb
Life of Brian
7.8 (10 ratings) director: Terry Jones actor: Graham Chapman / John Cleese
other title: Brian di Nazareth / Monty Python's life of Brian - et herrens liv
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8.1 (20 ratings) director: Terry Gilliam / Terry Jones actor: Graham Chapman / John Cleese
other title: Monty Python e il Sacro Graal / Monty Python og de skøre riddere
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".