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John Cleese

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John Marwood Cleese ( KLEEZ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Along with his Python costars Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and The Meaning of Life (1983). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Cleese is the 371st most popular actor (down from 369th in 2019), the 566th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 487th in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Actor.

John Cleese is most famous for his role as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, John Cleese ranks 371 out of 13,578. Before him are Rod Steiger, Salma Hayek, Bolo Yeung, Giancarlo Giannini, James Woods, and Mads Mikkelsen. After him are Larry Hagman, George Peppard, William Sadler, Stephen Collins, Telly Savalas, and Brandon Lee.

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Among people born in 1939, John Cleese ranks 31. Before him are Jackie Stewart, Romano Prodi, Michèle Mercier, Harry Kroto, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and Barbara Liskov. After him are George Lazenby, Junko Tabei, F. Murray Abraham, Sidney Altman, Clay Regazzoni, and Tzvetan Todorov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Cleese ranks 566 out of 8,785. Before him are Harold Wilson (1916), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), Adrian Smith (1957), George Everest (1790), Sid Vicious (1957), and Bobby Moore (1941). After him are John Hicks (1904), Eadweard Muybridge (1830), John Bowlby (1907), Jim Clark (1936), Stanley Matthews (1915), and Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, John Cleese ranks 61. Before him are Malcolm McDowell (1943), Colin Firth (1960), Kenny Baker (1934), Ian Holm (1931), Patrick Stewart (1940), and Sam Neill (1947). After him are Tim Curry (1946), Charles Dance (1946), Jonathan Pryce (1947), Daniel Craig (1968), Trevor Howard (1913), and Bob Hoskins (1942).

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