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      Eric Idle

      Eric Idle

      Highest Rated: 96% Life of Brian (1979)

      Lowest Rated: 8% An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1997)

      Birthday: Mar 29, 1943

      Birthplace: South Shields, England, UK

      Eric Idle was born on March 29, 1943 in South Shields, County Durham, England. After a childhood spent in boarding school, Idle enrolled in Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1965, where he began his love affair with performance by way of the renowned Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club. Through the program, Idle met John Cleese and Graham Chapman, with whom he'd eventually go on to form the comedy troupe Monty Python. Idle met further future fellow Python members Terry Jones and Michael Palin while working on the comedy television series "Do Not Adjust Your Set" (ITV 1967-69) while still enrolled in college. Upon his graduation in '69, Idle and the others, along with Terry Gilliam, formed Monty Python, taking form early on with the sketch series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (BBC One/BBC Two 1969-1974). Despite the success of the program, the team opted at the point of the show's termination to pursue individual projects; Idle experimented first with a radio show, "Radio Five" (BBC Radio One 1973-74), and then with a new sketch show, "Rutland Weekend Television" (BBC Two 1975-76), which spawned his best-known project outside Monty Python, "All You Need Is Cash" (NBC 1978), a satirical film based on the career of The Beatles that Idle wrote and starred in as both the narrator and Paul McCartney stand-in Dirk McQuickly, with songs by longtime collaborator Neil Innes of the Bonzo Dog Band, whom he first met on "Do Not Adjust Your Set." These aspirations notwithstanding, Monty Python did reunite for feature films like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975), "Life of Brian" (1979) and "The Meaning of Life" (1983). Going forward, Idle appeared in movies like "The Transformers: The Movie" (1986), the Gilliam-directed "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1986), "Casper" (1995), "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn" (1997), and "Ella Enchanted" (2004). In 2005, Idle adapted "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" as a Broadway musical called "Spamalot," originally directed by Mike Nichols.

      Highest rated movies

      Life of Brian Monty Python and the Holy Grail
      All You Need Is Cash
      The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
      And Now for Something Completely Different
      Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
      The Wind in the Willows
      Casper

      Photos

      Eric Idle Eric Idle at arrivals for SNATCHED Premiere, The Regency Village Theatre, Los Angeles, CA May 10, 2017. Photo By: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection Eric Idle at arrivals for BILLY CRYSTAL 700 SUNDAYS Premiere on HBO, Ray Kurtzman Theater at CAA in Century City, Los Angeles, CA April 17, 2014. Photo By: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection Eric Idle at arrivals for MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL Anniversary Screening at Tribeca Film Festival 2015, The Beacon Theatre, New York, NY April 24, 2015. Photo By: Derek Storm/Everett Collection at arrivals for MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL Anniversary Screening at Tribeca Film Festival 2015, The Beacon Theatre, New York, NY April 24, 2015. Photo By: Derek Storm/Everett Collection MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, 1975 MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, Graham Chapman as King Arthur (crown), Eric Idle (front), 1975 MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, Eric Idle (front), Michael Palin (second from front), 1975 THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Eric Idle, 1996, © Columbia CASPER, Eric Idle, 1995, (c)Universal MONTY PYTHON LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, Eric Idle, as Bruce, the Australian professor, 1982. ©Columbia Pictures. AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, Eric Idle, as a restaurant manager, 1971. NUNS ON THE RUN, Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, 1990, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. CASPER, Eric Idle, Cathy Moriarty, Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, 1995, (c)Universal NUNS ON THE RUN, Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, 1990, (c)20th Century Fox THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Eric Idle, 1996, © Columbia NUNS ON THE RUN, Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, 1990, (c)20th Century Fox SPLITTING HEIRS, Eric Idle, 1993, ©Universal Pictures MISSING PIECES, Eric Idle (left), 1991. ©Orion Pictures Corp DELGO, Eric Idle, 2008. ©Freestyle Releasing

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      20% 37% Absolutely Anything Extraterrestrial (Voice) - 2015
      78% 63% The Boxtrolls Original Song $50.8M 2014
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Boxtrolls 3D Original Song - 2014
      No Score Yet 77% Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy Writer - 2010
      No Score Yet 87% Monty Python Almost the Truth Obligatory Making of Special Unknown (Character) - 2009
      12% 26% Delgo Spig (Voice) $511.9K 2008
      42% 52% Shrek the Third Merlin (Voice) $320.7M 2007
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Shrek the Third 3D Merlin (Voice) - 2007
      51% 57% Ella Enchanted Narrator $22.9M 2004
      No Score Yet 12% National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure English Victim (Character) - 2003
      30% 27% Hollywood Homicide Celebrity (Character) $30.0M 2003
      No Score Yet 55% The Scream Team Coffin Ed (Character) - 2002
      No Score Yet 34% The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch Narrator/Dirk McQuickly/Lady Beth Mouse-Peddler (Character),
      Director
      - 2002
      30% 32% 102 Dalmatians Waddlesworth (Voice) $66.9M 2000
      16% 24% Dudley Do-Right Prospector Kim Jay Darling (Character) $9.8M 1999
      80% 88% South Park: The Movie Dr. Vosknocker (Voice) $52.0M 1999
      No Score Yet 25% The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue Evil Martin (Voice) - 1998
      40% 58% Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie Slyly the Fox (Voice) $106.3K 1998
      43% 60% Quest for Camelot Devon (Voice) $22.7M 1998
      8% 15% An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn Alan Smithee (Character) $43.9K 1997
      75% 61% The Wind in the Willows Szczur (Character) $72.8K 1996
      52% 50% Casper Paul 'Dibbs' Plutzker (Character) $100.3M 1995
      8% 37% Splitting Heirs Tommy Butterfly Rainbow Peace Patel (Character) $3.0M 1993
      12% 44% Mom and Dad Save the World King Raff (Character) $1.8M 1992
      No Score Yet 33% Missing Pieces Wendel (Character) - 1992
      14% 28% Too Much Sun Sonny (Character) $44.5K 1991
      42% 53% Nuns on the Run Brian Hope/Flight Attendant 1 (Character) $9.7M 1990
      90% 82% The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Desmond/Berthold (Character),
      Original Music
      $8.6M 1989
      62% 88% The Transformers: The Movie Wreck-Gar (Voice) $5.8M 1986
      37% 49% National Lampoon's European Vacation The Bike Rider (Character) - 1985
      86% 83% Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Fish #3 / Singer / Mr. Moore / Mrs. Blackitt / Watson / Atkison / Perkins / Victim #3 / Front End / Mrs. Hendy / Man in pink / Noel Coward / Gaston / Angela (Character),
      Writer,
      Original Music
      - 1983
      22% 64% Yellowbeard Commander Clement (Character) - 1983
      No Score Yet 92% Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl Unknown (Character),
      Writer
      - 1982
      96% 93% Life of Brian Wiseguy/Stan (Loretta)/Harry the Haggler/Culprit Woman/Warris/Intensely Dull Youth/Jailer's Assistant/ Otto/ Lead Singer Crucifee (Character),
      Writer,
      Original Music
      $150.2K 1979
      No Score Yet 100% The Rutles Dirk McQuickly/The Narrator/Stanley J. Krammerhead III, Jr. (Character),
      Director
      - 1978
      92% 82% All You Need Is Cash Dirk McQuickly/The Narrator/Stanley J. Krammerhead III, Jr. (Character) - 1978
      96% 95% Monty Python and the Holy Grail Dead Collector/Mr Blint/Sir Robin/The Guard Who Doesn't Hiccough but Tries to Get Things Straight/Concorde/Roger the Shrubber/Brother Maynard (Character),
      Writer
      $1.8M 1975
      88% 87% And Now for Something Completely Different Prosecutor/Marriage Counselor (Character),
      Writer
      - 1972

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet 47% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2023
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Graham Norton Show Unknown (Guest Star),
      Guest
      2010 2022
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Jeopardy! Contestant 2020
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Real Time With Bill Maher Guest 2012 2019
      No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2018
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2016
      No Score Yet 20% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2015
      No Score Yet 100% The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Guest 2014
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside Comedy Unknown (Character) 2014
      85% 76% The Simpsons Declan Desmond (Guest Voice) 2003-2004 2007 2012
      No Score Yet No Score Yet George Harrison: Living in the Material World Self 2011
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Monty Python's Personal Best Unknown (Character),
      Creator
      2006
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Comedy Connections Unknown (Guest Star) 2005
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Guest 2000 2003 2005
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Suddenly Susan Ian Maxtone-Graham (Character) 1999-2000
      95% 94% Frasier Chuck (Guest Voice) 1996
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Around the World in 80 Days Unknown (Character) 1989
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Laverne & Shirley Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
      No Score Yet 58% Saturday Night Live Host 1976-1979
      100% 83% Monty Python's Flying Circus Unknown (Character),
      Writer
      1969-1970 1972-1974
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Do Not Adjust Your Set Unknown (Character) 1967-1969