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8 results found for '"Michael Palin"' in Person.
Dresser, The (1993 Radio)
- Series
- Monday Play, The
- Director
- David Blount
Radio adaptation of a play written by Ronald Harwood which is based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a Shakespearean company...
American Friends (1991 Film)
- Director
- Tristram Powell
- Producer
- Patrick Cassavetti; Steve Abbott
Feature film adapted by Michael Palin from the travel diaries of his greatgrandfather. Francis Ashby, a fellow of Oxford College, falls in love with Elinor, an American girl of 17, while on a walking...
Hamlet, Or, The Bogus Psychiatrists (1974 Television)
- Series
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Director
- Ian MacNaughton
British television comedy series. This episode includes a c5 minute sketch in which a large American car skids around a corner and stops at the side of the curb in a smart Harley Street-like location. Terry...
War Against Pornography, The (1972 Television)
- Series
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Director
- Ian MacNaughton
British television comedy series. Includes a sketch, presented in newsreel style, satirising Mary Whitehouse’s campaign against pornography. A coach load of ‘pepperpots’ (middle-class grey-haired women...
Man Who Speaks in Anagrams, The (1972 Television)
- Series
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Producer
- Ian MacNaughton
British television comedy series. This episode includes the sketch ‘The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams’. Part of the dialogue is as follows: Palin: And I believe you’re working on an anagram version of...
Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus, Episode 1 (1972 Television)
aka: Monty Python in Deutschland
- Series
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Director
- Ian MacNaughton
- Producer
- Thomas Woitkewitsch
In the first episode of the Monty Python special (performed in phonetic German), a documentary about Albrecht Dürer is interrupted by a condensed performance of The Merchant of Venice, starring ‘The Bad...
How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body (1970 Television)
- Series
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Producer
- Ian MacNaughton
British television comedy series. The episodes features a sketch which presents the first underwater production of Measure For Measure. Dubbed over an expanse of sea is muffled Shakespearean blank verse. The...
Spam (1970 Television)
- Series
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Director
- Ian MacNaughton
British television comedy series. Includes a sketch entitled ‘Hospital for Over-Actors’ which parodies Olivier. Dialogue is as follows: Specialist: Most of these cases are pretty unpleasant. Nurse......