Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with Terry Jones. Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as The Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set. Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including "Argument Clinic", "Dead Parrot", "The Lumberjack Song", and "The Spanish Inquisition".
Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns. He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
After Python, he began a new career as a travel writer and travel documentarian. His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas and, most recently, Eastern Europe. In 2000 Palin was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to television.
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Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns. He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
After Python, he began a new career as a travel writer and travel documentarian. His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas and, most recently, Eastern Europe. In 2000 Palin was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to television.
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Known for
Time Bandits
Michael Palin in Nigeria
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
Michael Palin: Into Iraq
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
Jeepers Creepers
Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
Staged
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
Worzel Gummidge
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
An Accidental Studio
Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes
Michael Palin in North Korea
Vanity Fair
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
The Death of Stalin
Generation '66
Attenborough at 90
Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia
Absolutely Anything
A Life on Screen
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
Remember Me
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything
Michael Palin In Wyeth's World
The Meaning of Monty Python
The Wipers Times
Frost on Sketch Shows
Anatomy of a Liar
Brazil with Michael Palin
Produced By George Martin
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Arthur Christmas
Making Qi
The Jonathan Ross Show
ZULU Comedy Galla
Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
Monty Python in Aberystwyth
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Around the World in 20 Years
Get Up and Go: The Making of 'The Rutles'
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
The Seventh Python
What Is Brazil?
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Monty Python Conquers America
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
Michael Palin's New Europe
Hitler: The Comedy Years
The Graham Norton Show
The Secret Life of Brian
The South Bank Show: Spamalot
The One Show
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Michael Palin's Personal Best
Monty Python's Personal Best
John Peel's Record Box
Michael Palin & the Mystery of Hammershøi
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Himalaya with Michael Palin
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
Concert for George
The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life'
Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse
Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television
Sahara with Michael Palin
The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations
The Unknown Peter Sellers
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Monty Python: Pythonland
Monty Python: Live at Aspen
Palin on Redpath
Full Circle with Michael Palin
Fierce Creatures
The Willows in Winter
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows
The Frank Skinner Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Pole to Pole
The South Bank Show: Terry Gilliam
G.B.H.
American Friends
The Witches
Viz: The Documentary
Life of Python
The Simpsons
Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python
Michael Palin: The Art of Travel
Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
The Movie Life of George
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
A Fish Called Wanda
Consuming Passions
Going Live!
East of Ipswich
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Brazil
A Private Function
Comic Roots: Michael Palin
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
The Missionary
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Wogan
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Time Bandits
The Box
Great Railway Journeys - Confessions of a Train Spotter
Great Railway Journeys
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Life of Brian
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Jabberwocky
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Ripping Yarns
Three Men in a Boat
Saturday Night Live
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report
Henry Cleans Up
Secrets
Is This a Record?
Pebble Mill at One
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971
And Now for Something Completely Different
The Two Ronnies
Monty Python: Who's There?
Ending It All
Clangers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
How to Irritate People
The Complete and Utter History of Britain
Do Not Adjust Your Set
Acting
Life of Brian
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Wise Man #3 / Mr. Big Nose / Francis / Mrs. A / Ex-Leper / Announcer / Ben / Pontius Pilate / Boring Prophet / Eddie / Shoe Follower / Nisus Wettus
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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First Swallow-Savvy Guard / Dennis / Peasant 2 / Right Head / Sir Galahad the Pure / Narrator / King of Swamp Castle / Brother Maynard's Brother / Leader of The Knights Who Say NI!
And Now for Something Completely Different
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Gumby / Man with tape recorder / Phrasebook Author / Arthur Pewtey / Second self - defence student / Second Tenant / Lost His Wallet / Shrill Petrol Announcer / Milkman / Ernest Scribbler / Pet shop employee / Lumberjack / Headwaiter Gilberto / Herbert Anchovy / Blackmail Presenter / Gervais Brookhamster / Town Guild Lady