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Cleese to hang up the silly walks -
15 June 2006
Comedy institution John Cleese has announced that he is to quit while he is ahead in the funny stakes, pledging to nurture the comedic talents of the future instead. - -The 66-year-old, whose comedy CV is bursting with classics like Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, a
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John Cleese - filmography
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The Pink Panther 2
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer
Director: Harald Zwart
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Insp. Jacques Clouseau teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates
Director: Scott Derrickson
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A remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL follows astrobiologist Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) as she is unceremoniously plucked from her everyday life with her stepson (Jaden Smith), and whisked away to consult the government on a top-secret matter. ..read more »
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Igor
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese
Director: Anthony Leondis
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In a land of mad scientists and diabolical inventions, what do you do when you¹re born with a hunch on your back? You become an Igor. A twist on the classic monster movie, that tells the story of one Igor--who's sick of being a lowly lab assistant with a "Yes Master's" degree--and dreams of ..read more »
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Shrek The Third
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
Director: Chris Miller, Raman Hui
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When his new father-in-law, King Harold (John Cleese) falls ill, Shrek (Mike Myers) is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) to install the rebellious Artie (..read more »
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Charlotte's Web
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, oprah winfrey (voice)
Director: Gary Winick
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Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
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Man About Town
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn, John Cleese
Director: Mike Binder
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With a marriage in shambles and a shaky client roster, slick Hollywood agent Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck) has lost his killer instinct. To make matters worse, his personal journal has been stolen by a reporter threatening to write a career-ending expose. Now with everything on the line, Jack is ..read more »
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Valiant
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, tim curry (voice), John Hurt
Director: Gary Chapman
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High-flying comedy adventure about a little pigeon whose biggest dream is to join the Royal Homing Pigeon Service and serving crown and country during World War II.
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George Of The Jungle 2
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: John Cleese, Chris Showerman, Julie Benz
Director: David Grossman
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This sequel to Disney's 1997 hit film finds the clumsy ape man from Jay Ward's 1967 television cartoon perfectly content after having married the beautiful Ursula and fathering a child. However, all is not well in George's jungle kingdom because Ursula's scheming mother, Beatrice, has hatched a ..read more »
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Scorched
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Paulo Constanzo, Woody Harrelson
Director: Gavin Grazer
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In this fun crime caper movie, a small-town bank robbery is botched in the most ironic of ways three of the bank's employees have their own separate plans to steal the dough.
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from 3,455 members
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu
Director: Joseph McGinty
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CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE reunites Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu as they once again wage battle against some formidable opponents. This time around the three angels are on a mission to track down two stolen rings that contain encrypted information relating to the Witness ..read more »
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Stupidity
(2003)
Starring: John Cleese, Noam Chomsky, Salma Hayek
Director: Albert Nerenberg
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Stupidity sets out to determine whether our culture is hooked on deliberate ignorance as a strategy for success. From Adam Sandler to George W. Bush, from the IQ test to TV programming, to the origins of the word moron, Stupidity examines the "dumbing down" of contemporary culture.
Stupidity ..read more »
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Die Another Day
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Colin Salmon, Halle Berry
Director: Lee Tamahori
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In DIE ANOTHER DAY, the 20th James Bond adventure, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) gets off to a rough start when he's captured and subsequently tortured during an assignment in North Korea. When the suave secret agent is eventually liberated, he embarks on a dangerous mission that involves tracking a ..read more »
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from 24,419 members
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Die Another Day - BLU-RAY Version
(2002)
Starring: Samantha Bond, Halle Berry, John Cleese
Director: Lee Tamahori
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In DIE ANOTHER DAY--the 20th James Bond adventure--007 (Pierce Brosnan) gets off to a rough start when he's captured and subsequently tortured during an assignment in North Korea. When the suave secret agent is eventually liberated, he embarks on a dangerous mission that involves tracking a ..read more »
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from 1,059 member
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Rat Race
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Jerry Zucker
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An all-star cast proves just how far people will go for the chance to win $2 million in Jerry Zucker's RAT RACE. In the tradition of Zucker's AIRPLANE and NAKED GUN 2-1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR, this film features wild chase scenes, slapstick comedy, sight gags, impossible situations, and zany ..read more »
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BBC Great Comedy Moments
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: David Jason, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett
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This compilation DVD brings together nearly two hours of the funniest comedy scenes from the many classic BBC programmes. Includes clips from the likes of Blackadder, Morecambe and Wise, Only Fools And Horses, Porridge, Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em, Steptoe and Son and more.
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The Magic Pudding
(2000)
Starring: John Cleese, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill
Director: Karl Zwicky
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Meet Albert (John Cleese) a magnificent puddin' who can turn himself into just about any puddin' you can imagine. Only problem is that everyone is trying to steal him and he has the annoying habit of running away at every possible opportunity! It's up to his three friends to look after Albert, ..read more »
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The World Is Not Enough
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Judi Dench
Director: Michael Apted
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Complete with ski chases, casino hijinks, high-tech gadgetry, and sultry women, the 19th installment in the James Bond franchise features the increasingly at ease Pierce Brosnan in his third appearance as 007, in a race to save the world's oil supply. Sophie Marceau (BRAVEHEART) stars as Elektra ..read more »
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from 17,843 members
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In The Wild - Lemurs With John Cleese
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: John Cleese
Director: Justine Kershaw
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This programme takes you along on actor John Cleese's journey into the rainforests of Madagascar. Watch as Cleese tracks the progress of five black-and-white-ruffed lemurs that were born in captivity and released into the rainforest. The hope is that they will survive and eventually mate with the ..read more »
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from 110 members
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Fierce Creatures
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline
Director: Robert Young, Fred Schepisi
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This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline's genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English ..read more »
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from 4,117 members
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The Wind In The Willows
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Terry Jones, Steve Coogan, Eric Idle
Director: Terry Jones
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A live-action version of the classic story by Kenneth Grahame, featuring several members of the Monty Python comedy team. Toad of Toad Hall (director Terry Jones) is a whimsical fellow who is apprehended for driving too fast in his motorcar. The next thing he knows, a gang of weasels is trying to ..read more »
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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In this adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley tale, Kenneth Branagh stars as Victor Frankenstein, a man possessed by a mission to create life but painfully unaware of the consequences of his actions. He succeeds in his quest to create a man, but his creature (Robert De Niro) is both revolting and ..read more »
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The Swan Princess
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: John Cleese, Jack Palance, Steven Wright
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This animated feature based on the classic "Swan Lake" follows the travails of Prince Derek and his pals, a frog, a turtle and a puffin, as they try to save Princess Odette from the evil wizard Rothbart. Features the voices of Jack Palance, John Cleese, Sandy Duncan, Steven Wright and others.
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The Jungle Book
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Sam Neill, Lena Headey
Director: Stephen Sommers
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A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's tale of Mowgli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves after being lost when a tiger attacked an encampment and killed his father. Years later he finds himself re-united with his childhood love Kitty and back in the "civilisation" of Colonial India which he ..read more »
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Erik The Viking
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Terry Jones, John Cleese, Tim Robbins
Director: Terry Jones
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Tim Robbins stars as Erik the Viking, a thoughtful man in a violent time who does not enjoy killing and raping like the rest of his people. When he accidentally kills a woman while defending her, he reevaluates his life and goes off in search of the Horn Resounding, which has the power to bring him ..read more »
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Secret Policeman's Ball, The - The Compl...
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: John Cleese, Neil Innes, terry jones
Director: Roger Graef
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A box set featuring all the Secret Policeman's Balls. 'Pleasure At Her Majesty's (1976)', 'Mermaid Frolics (1977)', 'The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)', 'The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1981)', 'The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987)', and 'The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball (1989)
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from 137 members
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A Fish Called Wanda
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Kevin Kline
Director: Charles Crichton
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In A FISH CALLED WANDA, veteran director Charles Crichton and scriptwriter-star John Cleese create a dazzling quilt from various strands of English and American comedy. The plot, in which four disparate characters attempt a daring heist, comes from Ealing caper comedies, such as Crichton's own THE ..read more »
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from 20,996 members
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Silverado - BLU-RAY Version
(1985)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Linda Hunt
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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As the result of a chance meeting, four cowboys on horseback are drawn together to defeat a corrupt frontier sheriff and his vicious posse. An enjoyable high-spirited western. Starring Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Brain Dennehy and Rosanna Arquette, and written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan (THE ..read more »
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from 36 members
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Silverado
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Linda Hunt
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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As the result of a chance meeting, four cowboys on horseback are drawn together to defeat a corrupt frontier sheriff and his vicious posse. An enjoyable high-spirited western. Starring Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Brain Dennehy and Rosanna Arquette, and written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan (THE ..read more »
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Clockwise
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman
Director: Christopher Morahan
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John Cleese stars in this delightful comedy as Brian Stimpson, the headmaster of a British high school whose obsession with punctuality is a source of humour for his students and joy for himself. The timely Stimpson has been elected the chairman of a conference of headmasters from posh schools--a ..read more »
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Yellowbeard
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Peter Cook
Director: Mel Damski
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The comic saga of an infamous pirate who has just been released from the prison where he spent the last 15 years. He soon makes up for lost time.
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from 217 members
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Privates On Parade
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: John Cleese, Dennis Quilley, Michael Elphick
Director: Michael Blakemore
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PRIVATES ON PARADE is a wacky comedy about a British army unit assigned the thankless task of entertaining the troops stationed in the Malayan jungle during the second world war. John Cleese leads the troops as Major Giles Flack and he's accompanied by an aging actress suffering from old fashioned ..read more »
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Time Bandits
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Plunging headfirst into history, director Terry Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children's fairy tales to bear as he navigates through myth and legend in a bizarre, ingenious retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ. A boy and six good-natured little persons careen through time-twisting interactions ..read more »
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Time Bandits - BLU-RAY Version
(1980)
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Born from the brilliant minds of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam and
Michael Palin, Time Bandits is a British masterstroke in fantasy
adventure. When a young boy's wardrobe shapeshifts into the gateway of
another world, he finds himself embroiled in a series of eccentric
encounters with famous ..read more »
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Monty Python's Life Of Brian
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Director: Terry Jones
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Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their second--and tightest--full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in ..read more »
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Fawlty Towers - Series 2 Complete
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth
Director: Bob Spiers
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The complete second series of the classic TV comedy which is based in a hotel in Torbay. Features the episodes 'Communication Problems', 'The Psychiatrist', 'Waldorf Salad', 'The Kipper And The Corpse', 'The Anniversary' and 'Basil The Rat'.
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How To Irritate People
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman
Director: Ian Fordyce
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HOW TO IRRITATE PEOPLE is a mockumentary in which host John Cleese illustrates various different types of irritation, and shows that the best way to irritate people is to make it look unintentional. Parents irritate their children, old ladies irritate people in a movie theater, and airline pilots ..read more »
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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman
Director: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton
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Contains all the episodes from the first series of the classic and highly influential television comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Consisting of British actors Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and American Terry Gilliam, the hugely influential comedy ..read more »
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from 1,087 member
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Sez Les
Starring: Les Dawson, Kenneth Connor, Roy Barraclough
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
A British comedy sketch show from the 60s/70s starring Les Dawson.
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The Best Comedy DVD In The World
on DVD
Starring: Peter Kay, Tommy Cooper, Eddie Izzard
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Provides a compilation of some of the greatest comedy moments from Stand Up, Television and Film. Includes clips from: 'Bo Selecta', 'Little Britain', 'The Office', 'Monty Python', 'Only Fools And Horses', 'Carry On' and much much more. All profits from the sale of this video will be donated to the ..read more »
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Monty Python's Personal Bests Collection
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman
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John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones of the groundbreaking comedy act Monty Python choose their favourite sketches from the show and collaborate to choose Graham Chapman's finest sketches.
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The Taming Of The Shrew
on DVD
Starring: John Cleese, Anthony Pedley, Joan Hickson
Director: Johathan Miller
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Baptista, a ..read more »
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Shrek Totally Tangled Tales Game
on DVD
Starring: John Cleese
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Join Shrek & Princess Fiona in an all new adventure to rescue King Harold the frog from the effects of Fairy Godmother's magic wand! Tangled tales, zany live-action scenes with John Cleese and all-new storybook animations will keep the whole family laughing and entertained!
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John Cleese - watch online
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Man About Town
to Watch Now
(2006)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn, John Cleese
Director: Mike Binder
Certificate: 
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Run time: 95 minutes
With a marriage in shambles and a shaky client roster, slick Hollywood agent Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck) has lost his killer instinct. To make matters worse, his personal journal has been stolen by a reporter threatening to write a career-ending exposé. Now with everything on the line, Jack is ..read more »
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Scorched
to Watch Now
(2002)
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Rachael Leigh Cook, Paulo Constanzo
Director: Gavin Grazer
Certificate: 
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Run time: 89 minutes
In this fun crime caper movie, a small-town bank robbery is botched in the most ironic of ways three of the bank's employees have their own separate plans to steal the dough.
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A fitting tribute to Graham Chapman 29 May 2005
...lm itself. Eric Idle had already developed his transatlantic twang by then but John Cleese still had a sense of humour. ...
They don't make em like this anymore! 2 March 2009
