John Cleese, Esq

Career: comedian, writer and actor; started making jokes professionally 1963, started on British TV 1966; fndr and former dir Video Arts Ltd; Hon LLD Univ of St Andrews, A D White prof-at-large Cornell Univ 1999-; Television series incl: The Frost Report 1966, At Last the 1948 Show 1967, Monty Python's Flying Circus 1969-73, Fawlty Towers 1975, Look at the State We're In! (BBC) 1995, The Human Face 2001; Films incl: Interlude 1968, The Magic Christian 1969, And Now For Something Completely Different 1971, Romance with a Double Bass 1974, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975, Life of Brian 1979, Privates on Parade 1982, The Meaning of Life 1983, Silverado 1985, Clockwise 1986, A Fish Called Wanda 1988, Erik the Viking, Frankenstein 1993, Jungle Book 1994, The Wind In The Willows 1996, Fierce Creatures 1997, George Of The Jungle 1997, Parting Shots 1998, The Out-of-Towners 1999, The World is Not Enough 1999, Isn't She Great 2000, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2001, Rat Race 2001, Die Another Day 2002, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002

Books and Publications: Families and How to Survive Them (with Dr Robin Skynner, 1983), The Golden Skits of Wing Commander Muriel Volestrangler FRHS and Bar (1984), The Complete Fawlty Towers (with Connie Booth, 1989), Life and How to Survive It (with Dr Robin Skynner, 1993), The Human Face (with Brian Bates, 2001)