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Michael Palin
  • Birth Name: Michael Edward Palin
  • Birth Place: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/05/1943, Taurus
  • Profession: Actor; screenwriter; TV host
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Michael Palin Fast Facts:
  • Fell off the stage during his first public performance as a child, when he played Martha Cratchit in a school production of A Christmas Carol.
  • Formed a comedy-writing team while attending Brasenose College with fellow future Monty Python member Terry Jones.
  • Along with Jones, was hired to write for the Frost Report, a BBC sketch comedy show that also employed future Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle.
  • Proposed titles for what became Monty Python's Flying Circus included The Algy Banging Hour, Wither Canada and Owl Stretching Time.
  • Based his character in the comedy A Fish Called Wanda (1988) on his father Edward, who stuttered.
  • Lent his name to London's Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children, which opened in 1993.
  • Serves as the president of Transport 2000, which lobbies for sustainable transportation, such as bikes, buses and trains.
  • Michael Palin Relationships:
  • Edward Moreton Palin - Father
  • Mary Rachel Lockhart Ovey - Mother
  • Helen Gibbins - Wife
  • Thomas Palin - Son
  • William Michael Palin - Son
  • Rachel Palin - Daughter
  • Richard Lockhart Ovey - Grandfather
  • College:
  • University of Oxford, Brasenose College, Oxford, England (1965)

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