# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cleese
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:07:19.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cleese"
name: "John Cleese"
slug: "john-cleese"
description: "John Marwood Cleese 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 the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and The Meaning of Life (1983)."
tagline: "English comedian and actor (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Cleese_Photo_Op_GalaxyCon_San_Jose_2024.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1939-10-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  90
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "JohnCleese"
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    handle:    "johncleeseofficial"
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    handle:    "nm0000092"
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    url:       "https://www.johncleese.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump