Eric Idle
Eric Idle was born on Mar 29, 1943 in UK. Eric Idle's big-screen debut came with Alice in Wonderland directed by Jonathan Miller in 1966, strarring Young Man (uncredited). Eric Idle is known for Monty Python Live (Mostly) directed by Eric Idle, John Cleese stars as Llama lecturer and Terry Gilliam as Spanish Dancer. Eric Idle has got 2 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award Eric Idle achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new tvshow Eric Idle plays is Monty Python's Flying Circus - Season 4 which will be released on Oct 02, 2018.
Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, playwright, director, and songwriter. co-creator of Monty Python on TV, stage, and five films, including The Life of Brian and The Holy Grail, which he later adapted for the stage with John Du Prez as Monty Python's Spamalot, winning the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2005, a Grammy, a Drama Desk Award, and playing for almost five years on Broadway. They also wrote the comic oratorio Not the Messiah, He's a Very Naughty Boy, in 2007, which played round the world and at The Hollywood Bowl and was filmed live at The Royal Albert Hall, and a musical play What About Dick? available soon on iTunes. He created and directed the first mockumentary The Rutles for NBC, starred as Ko-Ko in the English National Opera version of The Mikado in London and Houston, and appeared last year in The Pirates of Penzance in Central Park and in Not the Messiah at Carnegie Hall. He is also one of the conceivers of the musical Seussical. In 2012 he appeared live in front of a billion people worldwide singing his song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life at the Closing Ceremony of the London Olympics. Last year he created, directed, and appeared in the sold-out final Monty Python reunion show One Down Five to Go at London's O2 Arena for 10 nights, whose final performance was broadcast live round the world.He has also acted in several movies, including Nuns on the Run, Splitting Heirs, Casper, Shrek the Third, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; and written two novels, The Greedy Bastard Diary and Pass the Butler, a West End play.
Birthday
Mar 29, 1943Place of Birth
South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UKAlso known
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Known For
Awards
2 wins & 9 nominations
Movies & TV Shows
- 20156.0
- 20147.6
- 2010
Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy
actor, writer
as Baritonish / Stan aka Loretta / Bob Dylan / ...
7.1 - 20084.3
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- 2003
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch
actor, writer
as Narrator / Dirk McQuickly / Lady Beth Mouse-Peddler
5.7 - 20035.3
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- 20004.8
- 19996.0
- 19993.9
- 19997.7
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- 19896.8
- 19898.0
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- 19856.2
- 1985
Faerie Tale Theatre - Season 4
actor, writer
as The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning / Narrator
8.3 - 1984
Faerie Tale Theatre - Season 3
actor, writer
as The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning / Narrator
8.3 - 19835.9
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- 1983
Faerie Tale Theatre - Season 2
actor, writer
as The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning / Narrator
8.3 - 19827.8
- 1982
Faerie Tale Theatre - Season 1
actor, writer
as The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning / Narrator
8.3 - 19817.0
- 19798.0
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- 1976
Rutland Weekend Television - Season 2
actor, writer
as Various / RWT programme controller / Dirk McQuickly - Rutles Guitarist
7.4 - 1975
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
actor, writer
as Dead Collector / Peasant 1 / Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot / ...
8.2 - 1975
Rutland Weekend Television - Season 1
actor, writer
as Various / RWT programme controller / Dirk McQuickly - Rutles Guitarist
7.4 - 19748.8
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- 1972
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus - Season 1
actor, writer
as Spectator / Norbert Schulze / Host / ...
8.1 - 1971
And Now for Something Completely Different
writer, actor
as Prosecutor / Marriage Counselor / Arthur Nudge / ...
7.5 - 19708.8
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- 19666.8