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Eric Idle
Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer and composer of comic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python.
Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear) in Harton Village, the son of Nora Barron ...
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The Rutles
All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious British rock group called The Rutles. As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to The Beatles is ...
And Now For Something Completely Different
And Now For Something Completely Different is a film spin-off from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons. The title was used as a catchphrase in the TV show.
The film,...
Casper
Casper is a 1995 drama feature film starring Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman and based on the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons and comic strips. The ghosts featured in the film were created through computer-generated imagery.
The film was merely...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin), and directed by Gilliam and Jones. It was conceived...
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Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a 1982 concert film in which the Monty Python team perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl. The show also included filmed inserts which were mostly taken from two Monty Python specials...
Life of Brian
Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team. It tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Graham Chapman), a young Jewish man who is born in...
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a 1999 American animated satirical comedy/musical film based on the animated television series South Park. The film was directed by Trey Parker, and stars the regular television cast of Parker, Matt Stone, Mary...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, and Robin Williams.
The film begins in an unnamed and war-torn European city in...
The Meaning of Life
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a 1983 musical comedy film by the Monty Python comedy team. Unlike the two previous films they had made, which had each told a single, more or less coherent story, The Meaning of Life returns to the sketch...
The Scream Team
The Scream Team is a Disney Channel Original Movie. The movie was aired October 4 , 2002 in the U.S.
Two children move into a town where their grandfather has just died. They later discover that a society of ghosts are searching for their...
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (the onscreen title is simply Burn Hollywood Burn) was made in 1997 and released in 1998. It was regarded as one of the worst films of all time, and scooped five awards (including Worst Picture) at the 1998...
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Splitting Heirs
Splitting Heirs is a 1993 British film starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese and Sadie Frost. The film was directed by Robert Young, and features music by Michael Kamen. It was entered into the 1993...
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows, released on video in the U.S. as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, is a 1996 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic novel The Wind in the Willows (which shows the ever changing world of the British countryside through the eyes of...
Yellowbeard
Yellowbeard is a 1983 comedy film by Graham Chapman, along with Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna and David Sherlock. It was directed by Mel Damski. The film included Marty Feldman in his last film appearance.
The pirate Yellowbeard (Chapman) was...
Nuns on the Run
Nuns on the Run is a 1990 British comedy film, starring Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle. It was written and directed by Jonathan Lynn and produced by HandMade Films. Many of the outdoor scenes were shot in Chiswick. The soundtrack was composed and...
Shrek the Third
Shrek the Third (sometimes known as Shrek 3 or Shrek the 3rd) is a 2007 animated film, and the third film in the Shrek series, following Shrek and Shrek 2. It was produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg for DreamWorks Animation, and is distributed by...
Mom and Dad Save The World
Mom and Dad Save the World is a 1992 adventure, family romantic comedy movie which stars Jon Lovitz, Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, Eric Idle, Thalmus Rasulala and other actors. Jon Lovitz plays Emperor Tod Spengo who is the cruel, silly and over...
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch is a modern re-telling of the 1978 mockumentary All You Need is Cash, in a modern setting.
Twenty three years after the original, documentarist Melvin Hall (Eric Idle) interviews mainstream artists, actors, and...
Quest for Camelot
Quest for Camelot is an animated feature film from Warner Bros. Animation, released in 1998. It is based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman and was shot in Austin, Texas.
The movie is about a young woman named Kayley who wants to be a...
Dudley Do-Right
Dudley Do-Right is a live action romantic family comedy, based on Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right, produced by Davis Entertainment for Universal Pictures, and released to theatres in 1999. The motion picture stars Brendan Fraser as the cartoon's title...
Ella Enchanted
Ella Enchanted is a 2004 fairy tale-comedy film loosely based on Gail Carson Levine's 1997 novel of the same name. The film stars Anne Hathaway as Ella and Hugh Dancy as Prince Charmont. It was released to North American cinema on April 9, 2004 and...
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Who is Harry Nilsson?
Who is Harry Nilsson, with the complete title Who is Harry Nilsson (and why is everybody talking about him?), is a documentary about the musician Harry Nilsson that premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2006.
David Leaf and...
Delgo
Delgo is a 2008 computer-animated fantasy film. The film was produced by Fathom Studios, a division of Macquarium Intelligent Communications, which began development of the project in 1999.
Despite the film's festival appeal, winning the coveted...
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue is a 1998 direct-to-video animated film and the sequel to The Secret of NIMH produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation. In the film, Timothy Brisby, the youngest son of Johnathan and Mrs. Brisby, goes to...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie is a 1998 animated film based on the Christmas song of the same name by Robert May.
This was the first theatrical feature from GoodTimes Entertainment, long known as a home video company. It received a...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin), and directed by Gilliam and Jones. It was conceived...
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin), and directed by Gilliam and Jones. It was conceived...
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Life of Brian
Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team. It tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Graham Chapman), a young Jewish man who is born in...
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Life of Brian
Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team. It tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Graham Chapman), a young Jewish man who is born in...
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National Lampoon's European Vacation
National Lampoon's European Vacation (originally given the working title Vacation '2' Europe) is a 1985 comedy film. The second film in National Lampoon's Vacation film series, it was directed by Amy Heckerling and stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D...
Shrek Ever After
Shrek Forever After is a 2010 action animated film written by Tim Sullivan and Josh Klausner and directed by Mike Mitchell.
