John Cleese's biography

John Cleese is 83 years old actor born at Weston-super-Mare. He was born on Friday 27th of October 1939. He is often nicknamed as Cleesey. According to year of birth 1939 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 27th of October means he is Scorpio. Scorpio is a watery sign. These people are very intense in their thoughts. They always learn from the transformatory phase of their life.He was married 3 times.

He is citizen of United Kingdom. His primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as television actor, film actor, comedian, voice actor, screenwriter, writer, film producer, autobiographer, stage actor. He is recently known as film director. He received Primetime Emmy Award Cheers in 1987

John Cleese's family

John Cleese's ex spouses

Connie Booth

John Cleese and Connie Booth have been together since 1968 for 10 years. She is known as television actor. His ex spouse was born on Monday 2nd of December 1940 in Indianapolis.

Barbara Trentham

John Cleese and Barbara Trentham have been together since 1981 for 9 years. She is known as painter. His ex spouse was born on Sunday 27th of August 1944 in Brooklyn. His ex spouse died on Friday 2nd of August 2013 in Chicago. Barbara Trentham was 74 years old, when this happened.

Alyce Faye Eichelberger

John Cleese and Alyce Faye Eichelberger have been together since 1992 for 16 years. She is known as psychotherapist. His ex spouse was born on Saturday 28th of October 1944 in Frederick.

He has 1 daughter.

John Cleese's daughter: Cynthia Cleese

John Cleese's daughter's name is Cynthia Cleese. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Wednesday 17th of February 1971 in Croydon.

John Cleese's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Clifton College, Downing College, University of Cambridge.

John Cleese's career

His main focus is to be actor. You could see him also in Cheers, A Fish Called Wanda. He is also a member of Monty Python.

Awards and competitions

John Cleese's Awards

He received award for Primetime Emmy Award for work Cheers in 1987
He received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for work A Fish Called Wanda in 1989
He received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for work Cheers in 1987

John Cleese's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

What John Cleese has done for a first time

He claims he was to be the first person to say the F-word at a memorial service when he spoke at Graham Chapman's.
He has played the father of two of the Charlie's Angels. First he played Lucy Liu's father in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). The next year he played Cameron Diaz's father in Shrek 2 (2004).
When he first started acting his original goal was to be a classically trained Shakespearean actor.
Cleese first worked with Eric Idle and Graham Chapman after he joined the Footlights Revue as a Cambridge student. He later wrote for David Frost, who had been a Revue member before Cleese joined.
He and his first wife Conie Boioth were creators of Fawlty Towers.

John Cleese's quotes

[in 2001] I think there's much more fear now than there used to be, much more fear of failure.
[in 2001] You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.
It's lovely that Harry Potter and the Bond movies are still shot in England - that's a great pleasure, but it's true that most of the well-paid work is in America.
I never enjoyed The Meaning of Life (1983). I always regarded that entire film as a bit of a cockup.
In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
[about his move from England to California] At my age, I want to wake up and see sunshine pouring in through the windows every day.
I'm probably the worst singer in Europe. I won't compete for North America.
My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.
I don't think anyone should be educated sexually. There's far too many people on the planet. If we could hush it up for a few years, that would help.
If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
When people say "I'm not a prude, but..." what they mean is "I am a prude, and..."
Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.
I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damn well like.
I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her."
[on his divorce from Alyce Faye Eichelberger] This is the happiest I have ever been and I feel that at 68 now I want as many years as I can get.
Why anyone who has not committed a punishable offense would listen to country and western music is beyond me.
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
Some people ask me to do ads and I think, I don't really want to sell potato crisps.
Although my inclinations are slightly left-of-center, I was terribly disappointed with the last Labour government. Gordon Brown lacked emotional intelligence and was never a leader.
[in the book "To Wit: Skin and Bones of Comedy"] It's the people who try desperately to put a measured surface over secret anger seething away underneath who give you the sense of most violence.
Someone telephonically knowledgeable and I had a bit of an argument about that. He said that telephone booths didn't work because they were vandalized. I said they were vandalized because they didn't work.
[on the BBC in 2013] The people who became executives [in the Sixties and Seventies] had produced or directed a great deal of comedy. Now there seems to be an executive class and they have never written and never directed.
The thing you have to remember about critics is that they can't do it themselves.
[improvising during the Parrot Sketch for Monty Python's "One down, five to go" at the O2] I'm rather worried about David Beckham. You see him around all the time, but he never talks.
The thing about shock is not that it upsets some people, I think; I think that it gives others a momentary joy of liberation, as we realized in that instant that the social rules that constrict our lives so terribly are not actually very important.
[on a knighthood] I'll only have one if Python get one. We always thought it would be nice to actually have Sir Monty Python but not actually have knighthoods ourselves.
I don't think that you can edit humor because it may be misunderstood by idiots.
Piers Morgan writes that I didn't recognize him in a restaurant in New York. I did. I just didn't want to speak to someone I truly detest.
[on his surprise cameo in Doctor Who (1963) in 1979] It was lovely to do. It just took an hour and a half, so I enjoyed it. Douglas Adams suggested to the director that we should do it.
I think we're all born with a sense of humour. Creativity is another thing . . . The thing that mainly kills creativity and humour is anxiety. You need to be able to play. I think a lot of us lose this ability.
[about his home town] Childhood was very low key. Extremely little happened. Weston used to have a field-hockey festival, but that was stopped, as people were becoming too excited.
[on his years of depression] Life seemed almost pointless... The feeling was a kind of deadness... And the sense of humor was an early casualty. In fact, when I began to be able to laugh at all, it began to clear.
[on seeing himself acting on film for the first time] I looked like a giraffe on a hovercraft.
[on Rupert Murdoch, the person he said he most despises] He did irreparable damage to English culture.
[on how to reform the European Union] Give up the Euro, introduce accountability, and hang Jean-Claude Juncker.
If I thought there was any chance of major reform in the EU, I'd vote to stay in. But there isn't. Sad.
[on Theresa May] Margaret Thatcher with a sense of humour.
A lot of Americans do lack irony. Their fundamentalist attitude to words - the fact that words are true and can't be said with any detachment or with any ironic intent means that a lot of humour I do doesn't go down very well over there.
One of my ex-wives died, you know, that was really sad, 'cause it was the wrong one.
[on a YouTube comment below a Monty Python-related video] I think the problem with people like this is that they're so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.
[on Eric Idle's marriage] 40 years, that's a lack of imagination.
[2017; as Cleese explains why people should have cats instead of children, Eric Idle adds that "they are also the only ones you can really pussy-grab"] I've known him 53 years and there is no hope at all.
I do have mild regrets about the name change. I think it would have been much better to have been Cheese. Before I became well known, people could never make out what my surname was and I always had to spell it.
I genuinely think Monty Python was underrated in Britain and overrated in America.
Donald Trump still seems quite popular among many people but his supporters are some of the stupidest people you'll ever meet in your life.
I'm a Pirate! I've got a Hat, a Parrot, and a Hook! What should I be? A Management Consultant?
[on seeing Kevin Kline in Cry Freedom (1987)] I thought, I do not know this man!
[seeing Terry Gilliam for the first time] He had this big leather coat and a girlfriend. I hated him instantly.
I see Hillary Clinton says people are pressuring her to run for President. The trouble is, they're all Republicans.
Gutted to have missed out once again on the New Year's Honours List. But relieved HMG have not revealed my private information to the hordes of hackers, burglars and assassins lurking out there. I guess it evens out.
Murdoch is a truly disgusting human being - a man interested only in acquiring more power and money, in order to acquire more money and power. He is a cancer on our societies.
[on the Monty Python years] People said we were anti-authoritarian. I think the truth is we were anti-bad-authority. I mean, you have to have authority. You just can't dispense with traffic lights.
Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?
[on diversity] As you know Terry [Gilliam] has decided he's a black lesbian. And Graham Chapman - I'm not allowed to use the word poof, am I? What have I got to say? Right, Graham was homosexual and also dead. So that's a certain amount of diversity.
I love being down in Bath because it feels like the England that I grew up in.

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