Terry Gilliam, Esq's Biography
- Forename(s)
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Terry Vance
- Sex
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Male
- Date of Birth
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22/11/1940
- Surname
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GILLIAM
- Style
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Terry Gilliam, Esq
- Recreations
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sitting extremely still for indeterminate amounts of time
Terry Gilliam, Esq's Professional Career
- Career
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actor, director, writer, animator; assoc ed Help! magazine 1962-64, freelance illustrator 1964-65, advertising copywriter and art dir 1966-67; exec prodr Complete Waste of Time (Monty Python CD-Rom) 1995; contrib to Spellbound Hayward Gallery 1996; visiting prof RCA 1997; govr BFI 1997-; Hon DFA: Occidental Coll 1987, RCA 1989; Hon Dr Wimbledon Sch of Art 2004; fell BAFTA 2009; Television resident cartoonist We Have Ways of Making You Laugh 1968, animator Do Not Adjust Your Set 1968-69, animator, actor and co-writer Monty Python's Flying Circus 1969-76 and 1979; animator: The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine 1971-72, The Do-It-Yourself Film Animation 1974; presenter The Last Machine (BBC series) 1995; Film co-writer, actor and animator: And Now For Something Completely Different 1971, Monty Python and The Holy Grail 1974 (also co-dir), Monty Python's Life of Brian 1978, Monty Python Live at The Hollywood Bowl 1982, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983; animator and writer The Miracle of Flight 1974; co-writer/dir: Jabberwocky 1976, Time Bandits (also prodr) 1980, Brazil 1985, The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen 1988, The Fisher King 1991, Twelve Monkeys 1995, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas 1998, The Brothers Grimm 2005, Tideland 2005, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus 2009, The Wholly Family 2011; subject of Lost in La Mancha 2002; Albums Monty Python's Flying Circus (jtly, 1970), Another Monty Python Record (jtly, 1971), Monty Python's Previous Record (jtly, 1972), The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief (jtly, 1973), Monty Python Live at Drury Lane (jtly, 1974), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (jtly, 1975), Monty Python Live at City Centre (jtly, 1976), The Monty Python Instant Record Collection (jtly, 1977), Monty Python's Life of Brian (jtly, 1979), Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (jtly, 1980), Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (jtly, 1981), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (jtly, 1983), Monty Python The Final Rip Off (jtly, 1987), Monty Python Sings (jtly, 1989), Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (soundtrack, produced jtly, 1998); Opera The Damnation of Faust (ENO) 2011
Terry Gilliam, Esq's Publications
- Books and Publications
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The Cocktail People (1966), Monty Python's Big Red Book (jtly, 1977), Monty Python's Papperbok (jtly, 1977), Monty Python and The Holy Grail (jtly, 1977), Monty Python's Life of Brian (jtly, 1979), Animations of Mortality (1979), Time Bandits (jtly, 1981), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (jtly, 1983), The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen (jtly, 1989), Monty Python's Just the Words (jtly, 1989), Not the Screenplay of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (jtly, 1998), Dark Knights and Holy Fools (1998), Gilliam on Gilliam (1999), The Pythons: An Autobiography (2003), Dreams & Nightmares: Terry Gilliam & The Brothers Grimm
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