Michael Palin

Known for ActingBorn 1943-05-05 (age 83)Broomhill, Sheffield, England, UK

Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with Terry Jones. Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as The Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set. Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including "Argument Clinic", "Dead Parrot", "The Lumberjack Song", and "The Spanish Inquisition". Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns. He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. After Python, he began a new career as a travel writer and travel documentarian. His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas and, most recently, Eastern Europe. In 2000 Palin was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to television.Read more

Movies & web series

ZULU Comedy Galla

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Graham Chapman's Personal Best

Tracey Ullman: A Class Act

Euroshow '71: May Day Special

Whinfrey's Last Case

Escape from Stalag Luft 112B

Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs

Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails

The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2

The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1

Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute

When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain

Number 27

Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television

Travels with Palin

Around the World in 20 Years

Tomkinson's Schooldays

Small Prophets

A Series of Bird's

Michael Palin: Into Iraq

Frost on Sketch Shows

50 Films to See Before You Die

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Terry Jones' Personal Best

The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

Murder at Moorstones Manor

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

Innes Lloyd: The Producer

Consuming Passions

The Unknown Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy

Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Himalaya with Michael Palin

Attenborough at 90

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

A Life on Screen

Concert for George

Michael Palin in North Korea

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Eric Idle's Personal Best

Staged

John Peel's Record Box

Michael Palin in Nigeria

The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life'

The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations

Monty Python's Flying Circus

The Simpsons

Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation

Michael Palin In Wyeth's World