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John Cleese: Writing
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In 1986 John Cleese starred in and co-wrote (with director Charles Crichton) one of the most successful British films of all time, A Fish Called Wanda, with Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis, and Eric Idle. Cleese reunited the four stars of Wanda in 1996 to make Fierce Creatures.
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John Cleese has done a number of lecture tours and motivational speeches. In 1990, he spoke at Harvard Business School on the subject of "creativity and bureaucracy" (not an unfamiliar subject given his years at the BBC!). As a speaker, Cleese is something to be heard. His deliberate and brilliant use of the English vocabulary is what has made him such a successful sketch and comedy writer for so long.
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John Marwood Cleese was born on the 27th of October 1939 in Weston-super-Mare, son of Reg Cleese and Muriel Cross. The birth place was more exactly Number 6 Ellesmere road, which nowadays belongs to Stuart Harvey (who happens to be brother to Kevin Harvey, none of them famous for anything as far as I know....if you wonder where I get all these useless information, my main sources are the backsides of milk cartons and little notes I find in other peoples garbage cans).
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The January 22 issue of Entertainment Weekly reported that John Cleese had accepted a position as visiting professor at Cornell University. The legendary comedian will conduct seminars on psychology, comic acting, and his film A Fish Called Wanda.
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In 1978, Cleese appeared as guest star on The Muppet Show. Instead of singing along, he showed up with a pretend album, his own new vocal record John Cleese: A Man & His Music, and finally strangled Kermit the Frog. Cleese won the TV Times award for Funniest Man On TV - 1978 / 1979.
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Cleese spent much of his childhood at boarding schools, including Harrow. He was rarely visited by his mother, whom he virtually worshipped, despite his letters begging her to either come or let his father permit him to come home. He had a distant relationship with his father, despite keenly following his father's career. Once, in 1886, he is reported to have proclaimed "My daddy is Chancellor of the Exchequer and one day that's what I'm going to be." His desolate, lonely childhood stayed with him throughout his life. He was very close to his nurse, Elizabeth Ann Everest (nicknamed "Woom" by Cleese), and was deeply saddened when she died on 3 July 1895.
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