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Palin turned down move to Hollywood -
27 November 2009
-Monty Python star Michael Palin refused to take his career to Hollywood - because he prefers the comfort of his British home.-
-The actor starred in a string of successful films in the 1980s, but declined offers to move to Tinseltown as he was put off by the hectic li
Michael Palin - what members say
review by saowijk from Leeds
Travel the sands 6 August 2004
review by A customer from Wales
Life of Brian 16 April 2004
review by A customer from Wales
Hugely entertaining and educational... 7 July 2004
Michael Palin - filmography
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The Frost Report Is Back - Special
(2007)
Starring: Sir David Frost, Ronnie Corbett, Ronnie Barker
Director: none
Certificate: 
A celebration of the satirical comedy sketch series The Frost Report, which won the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux in the 1960s. Hosted by Sir David Frost, it was highly influential and proved to be the launch pad for the likes of Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, John Cleese, Michael Palin, ..read more »
 
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Michael Palin's New Europe
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Michael Palin
Certificate: 
Michael Palin starts his journey high in the Julian Alps on the border between Slovenia and Italy, where the Iron Curtain once ran. Travelling through the Balkans, the Black Sea and the Baltic States, he explores countries which may be newly formed but have rich and deep histories. In Poland, ..read more »
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from 611 members
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Michael Palin's Great Railway Journeys
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Includes both his 1980 and 1994 railway journeys. In the first, Michael travels the length of Britain by train. In the second, he travels Ireland whilst tracing the 'family line' of his great grandmother
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from 2,548 members
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Palin follows in the footsteps of author Ernest Hemingway, offering insights into the quirky, eccentric and less well-known areas of Hemingway's life.
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from 1,641 member
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Spike Milligan - I Told You I Was Ill
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Harry Enfield, Eddie Izzard, Terry Jones
Certificate: 
It's a mystery how a man who called Prince Charles a 'groveling little bastard' on live TV would somehow end up on the Prince's list of favorite comedians, but that was the beauty of Spike Milligan. When the man Eddie Izzard called the founder of modern comedy died in 2002, he was mourned the world ..read more »
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from 522 members
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Around The World In 80 Days
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Michael Palin
Director: Roger Mills, Clem Vallance
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Witty intrepid traveller Michael Palin attempts to recreate the fictional voyage of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg. Not only that, he accepts the challenge to use only those modes of transportation that would have been available to Fogg. He encounters many strange and unexpected things while racing ..read more »
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from 3,585 members
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Michael Palin - Sahara
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Michael Palin
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There is no easy way to cross the Sahara by land and Michael Palin encounters the same problems and difficulties faced by travellers for centuries.
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from 2,383 members
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BBC Great Comedy Moments
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: David Jason, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett
Certificate: 
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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from 541 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 4,617 members
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Full Circle With Michael Palin
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Michael Palin
Certificate:
Travel 50,000 miles around the Pacific Rim with Michael Palin. His entertaining wit and incredible capacity to experience the unknown, guides you FULL CIRCLE around the globe along the Pacific rim from Alaska, through Russia, Japan, China, Vietnam, Australia, South America and Mexico. But these ..read more »
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from 2,818 members
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The Wind In The Willows
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Terry Jones, Steve Coogan, Eric Idle
Director: Terry Jones
Certificate: 
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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from 486 members
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Pole To Pole With Michael Palin
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Join Monty Python's Michael Palin on his second globetrotting adventure from Pole to Pole. Travelling from the North to the South Poles using only land and sea transport, he dodges polar bears, consults with doctors, and watches his luggage melt in the African sun.
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from 2,488 members
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G.B.H.
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Julie Walters
Director: Robert Young
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Alan Bleasdale's GBH is an epic, darkly humorous story of power, corruption and madness played out in the conflict between the enigmatic politician, Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay) and his nemesis, schoolteacher Jim Nelson (Michael Palin). Nelson accidentally defies a Murray-inspired 24-hour strike ..read more »
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The Secret Policeman's Ball - The Comple...
(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 198 members
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A Fish Called Wanda - Blu-ray
(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 10 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 24,165 members
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Brazil - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an ..read more »
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from 35 members
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Brazil
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an ..read more »
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from 19,755 members
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The Secret Policeman's Ball - Private Parts
(1984)
Starring: Connie Booth, Graham Chapman, John Cleese
Director: Roger Graef
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This film is a selection of highlights from the previous Policeman's Ball stage benefits for Amnesty International. The show includes sketches by the members of Monty Python with noted comedian Peter Cook, as well as musical numbers by Pete Townshend, Phil Collins and Bob Geldof.
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from 6 members
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A Private Function
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott
Director: Malcolm Mowbray
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A British couple's attempts to circumvent local food-rationing regulations trigger a chaotic series of events in this satirical comedy set in post-World War II England. The couple's scheme centers on a massive hog which has been illegally raised by a local farmer. Seeing a chance to capitalize on ..read more »
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from 1,533 member
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The Missionary
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard
Director: Richard Loncraine
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In this low-key comedy, a missionary (Michael Palin) who is trying to save the souls of prostitutes admits an ever increasing number of them into his "private fold." Soon the priest's "mission" looks more like a brothel. The cast includes Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, and many other ..read more »
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Time Bandits - Blu-ray
(1980)
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Katherine Helmond
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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from 770 members
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Time Bandits
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Katherine Helmond
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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from 12,663 members
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The Complete Ripping Yarns
(2 discs)
(1979)
Starring: Michael Palin, Eric Orthwaite
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The complete series from the pens of Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Episode titles: Tomkinson's Schooldays, The Testing of Eric Olthwaite, Escape From Stalag Luft 112 B, Murder at Moorstones Manor, Across the Andes by Frog, The Curse of the Claw, Whinfrey's Last Case, Golden Gordon, Roger of the Raj.
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from 2,893 members
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Monty Python's Life Of Brian
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland, Gwen Taylor
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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Jabberwocky
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: John Le Mesurier, Rodney Bewes, Brenda Cowling
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Opening with a quote from Lewis Carroll's classic nonsensical poem, Terry Gilliam's JABBERWOCKY is a darkly comic medieval masterpiece about a monster wreaking havoc on helpless villages. Michael Palin stars as Dennis Cooper, a happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well stock taker who becomes the unlikely hero ..read more »
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from 3,088 members
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Three Men In A Boat
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen Moore
Director: Stephen Frears
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Popular from the very start and never out of print, Three Men in a Boat remains as fresh and funny today as when it was first published in 1889. This adaptation is by a modern master of comedy, playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, The Russia House, Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and ..read more »
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Saturday Night Live - 25 Years Of Music ...
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Mariah Carey, Metallica, Alanis Morissette
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Featuring the tracklist: Mariah Carey - 'Butterfly', Alanis Morissette - 'Hand In My Pocket', Garbage - 'Special', Spice Girls - 'Wannabe', Metallica - 'Fuel' and Garth Brooks - 'Two Pina Coladas'. Comedy performances feature Paula Abdul and Will Ferrell and Garth Brooks.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1969)
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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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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American Friends
Starring: Michael Palin, Trini Alvarado, Connie Booth
Director: Tristram Powell
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Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back ..read more »
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Palin On Art
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Michael Palin
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Wilhelm Hammershoi, Anne Redpath and the four men known as the Scottish Colourists share one thing. None is as well-known as they deserve to be. What drew me to them all was my admiration and delight in their superb control of colour and their ability to use it to create a dazzling array of moods. ..read more »
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Michael Palin facts
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...Like the other entire travel documentaries Michael Palin has made, this series I found very enjoyable as he blends light humour with the excitement of exploring this planet ...
