John Cleese

It was during his studies at Cambridge that John Cleese found his vocation: he began to write sketches for the BBC in 1963 and began on the boards in the musical Half a Sixpence . From this time, he developed in his texts an absurd and offbeat style which would be his trademark. In 1969, he founded the comic troupe of Monty Python which is illustrated first on television ( Monty Python flying circus ), then in the cinema in cult works like Monty Python, sacred Grail, Monty Python, the life of Brian or Monty Python, the meaning of life.

After the separation of the group in the 80s, John Cleese is that of Monty Python who illustrates himself the most on the big screen, in films such as Bandits, bandits (for which he finds his accomplice "python" Terry Gilliam), Frankenstein or The World Is Not Enough, episode of the James Bond saga in which he embodies "R", the man with gadgets.

In 1988, he won the British Academy Award for best actor as well as an Oscar nomination for his role in the famous comedy A Fish Names Wanda, of which he is also a screenwriter and producer. In 1996, he found the same team for Créatures feroces, for which he again wrote and produced.

After being part of the Rat race of Jerry Zucker in 2001, John Cleese takes on the features of the ghost Sir Nick Near-Headless in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, rubs shoulders with Eddie Murphy in Pluto Nash, then is a part again. of the James Bond adventure in Die Another Day. In 2002, he continued to haunt the halls of Hogwarts for the second part of the adventures of the young wizard, Harry Potter, still under the direction of Chris Columbus. The following year, he joined the Charlie's Angels team - the angels were unleashed by becoming Mr Munday, went Around the World in 80 Days and made a foray into the world of animation by joining Vaillant's carrier pigeons. .

He did not forget his profession as a traditional actor, however, and played small roles in films as diverse as L'Entente Cordiale alongside Christian Clavier or in the American blockbuster The Day the Earth Stood. Always irresistibly attracted to comedy, we naturally find him in La Panthère Rose 2 in 2009.