Biography
John Cleese
Acting
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s he became a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. In the m…
Career works
302
Movies
223
Series
79
Career average
6.6/10
Birth date
10/27/1939
Place of birth
Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Filmography highlights
Movies
John Cleese Packs It In
2025
Fawlty Towers: The Play
2025 · 7.3
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
The Roast of John Cleese
2024 · 3.7
The Palace
2023 · 5.4
The Martini Shot
2023 · 6.5
Rally Road Racers
2023 · 6.4
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
2023 · 9.0
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
2022 · 7.0
Daddy Daughter Trip
2022 · 6.9
Clifford the Big Red Dog
2021 · 7.2
Father Christmas Is Back
2021 · 4.6
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021 · 6.0
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
2021
Series
Soccer's American Dream
2026
—
The Dinosaur Hour Extra
2023
The Dinosaur Hour
2023
LOL: Last One Laughing
2021 · 7.4
Why there is no hope
2020
—
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
2020
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020 · 7.2
Hold the Sunset
2018 · 6.4
Speechless
2016 · 6.9
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016 · 7.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · 6.1
A Life on Screen
2014 · 8.0
Over the Garden Wall
2014 · 8.6
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
2014 · 2.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · 5.1