A multi-talented actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer, John is a legend of British comedy. He initially found success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded comedy troupe Monty Python alongside Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Graham Chapman, starring in four Monty Python films; And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and The Meaning of Life.
In the mid-1970s, he co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Fawlty Towers, alongside his first wife, Connie Booth; it resulted in him receiving the 1980 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance and topped the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes.
In the 1980s and 1990s, John co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures, both of which he wrote. He also starred in Clockwise and a host of other Hollywood films, including two James Bond installments, two Harry Potter films, and three Shrek editions. He has been offered both a knighthood and a life peerage but has declined both.
Watch John Cleese speak at the 2019 Pendulum Summit in Dublin's Convention Centre in the video above.
