Happy Birthday: John Cleese

John Cleese

Born: October 27, 1939 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK

I think marriage should be like dog licences. I think you should have to renew marriage licences every five years, unless you have children. And I think before you have children you should have to go and pass various tests and get a licence to have a child. Because it’s the most transformative and difficult thing of your life. Far more important [than work]. People don’t understand this, and some people who are highly motivated by work, but when I worked I was always motivated, funnily enough, by the fear of being bad. Because it is so humiliating to make a joke and have no one laugh.

And Now For Something Completely Different 1971 dir. Ian MacNaughton

Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 dir. Terry Gilliam Terry Jones

Life of Brian 1979 dir. Terry Jones Starring Graham Chapman John Cleese

Time Bandits 1981 dir. Terry Gilliam Starring Craig Warnok David Rappaport

The Meaning of Life 1983 dir. Terry Jones Terry Gilliam Starring Cleese

Frankenstein 1994 dir. Kenneth Branagh Starring Robert DeNiro Kenneth Branagh

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 2001 dir. Chris Columbus Starring Richard Harris

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 dir. Chris Columbus starring Daniel Radcliffe

CHARLOTTE’S WEB 2006 dir. Gary Winick Stars: Dakota Fanning Julia Roberts

PLANES 2013 dir. Klay Hall Stars: Dane Cook Stacy Keach

Die Another Day 2002 dir. Lee Tamahori Starring Pierce Brosnan Halle Berry

Shrek The Third 2007 dir. C.B. Harding Voices by: Mike Myers Eddie Murphy Cameron Diaz

Igor dir. Anthony Leondis Voices by Cusack Steve Buscemi Jay Leno

The Day the Earth Stood Still 2008 dir. Scott Derrickson Starring Reeves Jennifer Connelly

Pink Panther 2 2009 dir. Harald Zwart Starring Steve Martin Jean Reno

Planet 51 dir. Jorge Blanco Javier Abad Stars: Dwayne Johnson Seann William Scott Jessica Biel

SHREK 2 2004 dir. Andrew Adamson Kelly Asbury Starring: Julie Andrews Cameron Daiz

WINNIE THE POOH dir. Stephen J. Anderson Don Hall Stars: Jim Cummings Craig Ferguson

MAN ABOUT TOWN 2006 dir. Mike Binder Stars: Ben Affleck Rebecca Romijn

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