Cast: Michael Palin

Direction Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle

Synopsis TV series (1969-1974). 4 Seasons. 45 Episodes. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (also known as "Flying Circus", "MPFC" or just "Monty Python" during the fourth season) was a popular, surreal BBC sketch comedy show from Monty Python, and the group's initial...

Direction Terry Jones

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle

Synopsis The setting is Judea 33 A.D, a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some order. At the centre of it all is Brian Cohen...

Direction Terry Hughes · Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Carol Cleveland

Synopsis A collection of skits that made the Python troup famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor.

Direction Terry Jones

Cast John Cleese · Eric Idle · Graham Chapman · Michael Palin

Synopsis The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the sketch are Archimedes (John Cleese), Socrates (Eric Idle), Hegel (Graham...

Direction Harry K. Garvin

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2006). 6 Episodes. Each episode showcases the contributions of a particular Monty Python member. The five surviving members (Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and John Cleese) were invited to select favourite sketches they wrote or...

Direction Bill Jones · Alan G. Parker · Ben Timlett

Cast Danny Scheinmann · John Cleese · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Synopsis Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyers Cut) is a 2009 documentary that covers the members of the Monty Python comedy troupe from their birth to the present day. It highlights their childhood, schooling and university life, pre-Python work and...

Direction Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Synopsis Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with...

Direction Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Synopsis The Monty Python team are at it again in their second movie. This time we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy Grail. This isn't your average medieval knights and horses story - for a...

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Kim Greist · Michael Palin · Katherine Helmond

Synopsis The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world...

Direction Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones

Synopsis Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Monty Python's Flying Circus) consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972 and were shot entirely...

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Sydney Arnold · Guy Bertrand · Andrew Bicknell · Myrtle Devenish

Synopsis In the bleak days of 1983, the Crimson Permanent Assurance, an accountancy staffed by elderly workers much like a slave ship, has been taken over by efficiency-minded corporate types. When they sack an employee, there's an uprising, and the building...

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast John Cleese · Kevin Kline · Jamie Lee Curtis · Michael Palin

Synopsis Diamond-loving American Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) has come to London with her demented, self-loving, and Nietzsche-quoting boyfriend Otto (Kevin Kline) in hopes of pulling off an armed diamond heist. The couple team up with two Brits, George (Tom Georgeson) and...

Direction Will Yapp

Cast Richard Dillane · Jonathan Benson · John Beyer · Inayat Bunglawala

Synopsis A documentary about the making of the controversial La vida de Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.

Direction Roger Graef

Cast John Cleese · Brian Cox · Terry Gilliam · Stephen Hawking

Direction Ian Fordyce

Cast John Cleese · Tim Brooke-Taylor · Graham Chapman · Michael Palin

Synopsis In this mock-documentary, John Cleese narrates a series of sketches on irritation -- types and techniques. Included are parents irritating their children, old ladies irritating movie-goers in a theater, an overly subservient waiter, a car repairman denying obvious car trouble,...

Direction Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Synopsis A collection of re-filmed sketches from the first and second series of the cult TV comedy show "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Includes such classics as "Nudge, Nudge", "Hell's Grannies", "Killer Cars", "Dead Parrot", "Lumberjack Song", "Blackmail" and "Upper Class Twit...

Direction Francis Hanly

Cast George Martin · Giles Martin · Paul McCartney · Ringo Starr

Direction Eric Idle · Gary Weis

Cast Eric Idle · Ricky Fataar · Neil Innes · Michael Palin

Synopsis Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success....

Direction Neil Ferguson

Cast Michael Palin

Synopsis As diplomatic relations between DPRK and South Korea begin to slightly thaw after decades of hostility, comedian and world traveler Michael Palin is allowed to visit North Korea for two weeks and, to a limited extent, explore the country.

Direction Jim Franklin · Alan J.W. Bell · Terry Hughes

Cast Michael Palin · Charles McKeown · David Griffin · Michael Stainton

Synopsis TV Series (1976-1979). 2 Seasons. 9 Episodes. Wildly funny series featuring excellent writing by Monty Python members Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Palin is well cast in different roles as he romps through six vignettes that comically parody the socially...