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John Cleese

John Cleese · Photo credit: Robert Barker, University Photography

John Cleese

  • A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1998-06)
  • Provost’s Visiting Professor (beginning 2006)
  • Actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and singer
  • Co-founder, Monty Python comedy troupe (1969)
  • Co-writer and star, Fawlty Towers (1975)
  • Academy Award & Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter and star, A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
  • Emmy-nominated actor (1987, 1998 & 2004)
  • Author, “Professor at Large: The Cornell Years” (2018)

 

 

 

A Conversation with John Cleese – Cornell University (2017)