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John Cleese: Biography

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  • Birth Place: Weston-super-Mare, England
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 10/27/1939, Scorpio
  • Profession: Actor; writer
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John Cleese Fast Facts:
  • Performed with the Cambridge Footlights comedy group while studying law at Cambridge University.
  • Wrote for Newsweek, the BBC and the comedy show The Frost Report.
  • Former wife Connie Booth costarred and cowrote the sitcom Fawlty Towers with him.
  • Wrote several books including Families and How to Survive Them (1984) and Life and How to Survive It (1993).
  • Served as a professor of comedy at Cornell University in New York.
  • John Cleese Relationships:
  • Alyce Faye Eichelberger - Ex-wife
  • Barbara Trentham - Ex-wife
  • Camilla Cleese - Daughter
  • Connie Booth - Ex-wife
  • Cynthia Cleese - Daughter
  • Muriel Cleese - Mother
  • Reginald Cleese - Father
  • John Cleese Awards:
  • 2002 Emmy: Outstanding Non-Fiction Special (Informational) - Nominee
  • 1987 Emmy: Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series - Winner
  • 1998 Emmy: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - Nominee
  • 2004 Emmy: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - Nominee
  • 1989 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Nominee
  • 1988 Oscar: Best Writing (Original Screenplay) - Nominee
  • College:
  • University of Cambridge, Downing College, Cambridge, England
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