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Michael Palin: Biography

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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