John Marwood Cleese, born on 27th October 1939, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK, is an actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. His first significant success was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with the 1963 Cambridge Footlights Revue, A Clump of Plinths, followed by that as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, which created the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus followed by the 4 films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.