Cleese

British  

/ kliːz /

noun

1. John ( Marwood ). born 1939, British comedy writer and actor, noted for the TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–74) and Fawlty Towers (1975, 1978). His films include A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Fierce Creatures (1997)

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Example Sentences

She later remembered that Cleese was a hard taskmaster.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

At first, John Cleese and his wife and fellow writer Connie Booth were unsure about the treatment.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

Co-written by Gilliam and Michael Palin, with appearances by Palin as a luckless dweeb through the ages and John Cleese as a posh Robin Hood, “Time Bandits,” the film, was very much a Python work.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024

"The Palace", a comedy set in a Swiss hotel peopled with a cast of grotesque characters, stars Mickey Rourke, John Cleese, Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant and Joaquim De Almeida.

From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2023

“Of course that was long before I invented wine and became an immortal. I fought side by side with the gods and some other demigod...Harry Cleese, I think.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan