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Cleese based Basil Fawlty on a real person, Donald Sinclair, whom he had encountered in 1970 while the Monty Python team were staying at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay while filming inserts for their television series.
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At Cambridge, Cleese joined the Cambridge Footlights, where he met upcoming comedians, such as Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graham Chapman. Cleese began writing material for the Footlights Revue and appearing in performances. Cleese was a key member of the Footlights Review (as writer and performer) who gained rave reviews at the 1963 Edinburg...
In 1969, Thames TV commissioned a new comedy programme, which would be called Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The key members were Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Chapman and Michael Palin. Building on the new wave of absurd and satirical comedy of the 1960s, Monty Python is widely regarded to be a seminal comedy programme, introducing new concepts and appro...
Cleese has been married four times and admitted he always had difficulties in relationships with women. Cleese stated he felt an awkwardness with women. He says he was: He attributed this difficult relationship with women to his mother. In 1968, he married Connie Booth, together they had one child – Cynthia. Together they wrote the script for Fawlt...
Cleese based Basil Fawlty on a real person, Donald Sinclair, whom he had encountered in 1970 while the Monty Python team were staying at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay while filming inserts for their television series. [51]
Jan 1, 2014 · Cleese is probably best known for his various roles in the British comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus, his role as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers and his various roles in the British comedy The Frost Report.
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Cleese and then-wife Connie Booth collaborated in the legendary television series Fawlty Towers (1975), as the sharp-tongued, rude, bumbling yet somehow lovable proprietor of an English seaside hotel. Cleese based this character on a proprietor he had met while staying with the other Pythons at a hotel in Torquay, England.
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Basil Fawlty is the main character of the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese. The proprietor of the hotel Fawlty Towers, he is a cynical and misanthropic snob , desperate to attract hotel guests from the British upper class .
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Oct 23, 2024 · John Cleese, British comic actor best known for his television work on Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers. He appeared in such notable films as A Fish Called Wanda and had recurring roles in the Harry Potter, James Bond, and Shrek film series.
