Although, originally conceived as a children's programme, it quickly acquired a cult crossover following amongst many adults, including future Pythons John Cleese and Graham Chapman ( as mentioned by Cleese himself in the " Paying my ex-wife " stage performance tour, October 2010 ).

Graham Arthur Chapman ( 8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989 ) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python.

In the years since Chapman's death, despite the existence of the " Graham Chapman Archive ", only a few of his projects have been released.

" In his book Graham Crackers, Chapman said that this took place just before Cleese left the show, and he wondered what the woman thought about his disappearance after getting Idle's response.

In 1997, Sherlock allowed Jim Yoakum to start the Graham Chapman Archives.

Ojril: The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman, a collection of previously unpublished material, was released in 1999.

Its website is no longer online and the Internet Movie Database page has been deleted ; the Graham Chapman Archive's website has disappeared as well.

* 1941 – Graham Chapman, British comedian ( d. 1989 )

* Graham Chapman ( as " Ron Vibbentrop ") in the 1970 British television comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Naked Ant

In a bar about 1975, Moon asked comedian Graham Chapman and writer Bernard McKenna to do a " treatment " for a " mad movie ".

It tells the story of Brian Cohen ( played by Graham Chapman ), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.

* Graham Chapman – Brian, Biggus Dickus, 2nd wise man

Graham Chapman, still suffering from alcoholism, was so determined to play the lead role – at one point coveted by Cleese – that he dried out in time for filming, so much so that he was also able to act as the on-set doctor on top of his acting duties.

It mostly contains scenes from the movie with brief linking sections performed by Eric Idle and Graham Chapman.

Terry Jones ( behind counter ), Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and the Vikings in the Monty Python sketch " Spam "

It was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman and first performed in the eighth episode of the show's first series, " Full Frontal Nudity " ( 7 December 1969 ).

At Graham Chapman's memorial service, John Cleese began his eulogy by reprising euphemisms from the sketch, stating that Graham Chapman was no more, that he had ceased to be, that bereft of life he rests in peace, that he had expired and gone to meet his maker, and so on, finally calling him an ex-Chapman.

During the drive back, Graham Chapman said that Cleese should eat something and asked him whether he fancied anything ; Cleese replied that he fancied a piece of cheese.

A Scotland Yard inspector ( Graham Chapman ) retrieves the joke, but despite the playing of sombre music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to create a depressing mood, also dies laughing.

One of the Nazi officers ( Graham Chapman ) erupts in laughter and dies.

Later in that episode during the " Police Constable Pan Am Sketch ", the policeman tells a chemist " one more peep out of you and I'll do you for heresy ", with the chemist ( played by Palin ) responding that he " didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition "; except that instead of the Spanish Inquisition arriving, PC Pan Am ( played by Graham Chapman ) simply tells the chemist to shut up.

They were also in the team of writers working for The Frost Report, whose other members included Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Monty Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle.

Graham Chapman gave him a minor part in Yellowbeard.

Other portrayals include Malcolm Keen ( Sixty Glorious Years, 1938 ), Stephen Murray ( The Prime Minister, 1941 ), Arthur Young ( The Lady with the Lamp, 1951 ), Ralph Richardson ( Khartoum, 1966 ), Graham Chapman ( Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1969 ), Michael Hordern ( Edward the Seventh, 1975 ) and Martin Wady ( Queen Victoria's Empire, 2001 ).

As Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Graham opposed the War in Iraq for fear it would divert U. S. attention from the fight in Afghanistan.

As a result of his service as the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in 2004 Bob Graham authored the book Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia and the Failure of America's War on Terror.

He was a Third-class Clerk, Treasury Department, Lagos ( 1921 – 1924 ); Recruit, Gold Coast Police Force ( Jul .- September 1924 ); Solicitor Clerk to the late Mr. Justice Graham Paul at Calabar ( Jan .- Aug. 1925 ); Instructor in Political Science, Lincoln University ( 1931 – 34 ); University Correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American ( 1928 – 34 ); General and Sports Correspondent for the Philadelphia Tribune ( 1928 – 34 ); Editor-in Chief of the West African Pilot ( 1937 – 45 ); Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press ( 1944 – 47 ); Correspondent for Reuters ( 1944 – 46 ); Managing Director of Zik ’ s Press Limited printers and publishers of the West African Pilot ( Lagos ), Eastern Guardian ( Port Harcourt ), Nigerian Spokesman ( Onitsha ), Southern Nigeria Defender ( Ibadan ), Daily Comet ( Kano ), and Eastern Sentinel ( Enugu ); Managing Director of Comet Press Limited ( 1945 – 53 ); Chairman of West African Pilot Limited and the Associated Newspapers of Nigeria Limited and six other limited liability companies ( 1952 – 53 ); Chairman, Nigerian Real Estate Corporation Limited ( 1952 – 53 ); etc.

Manager Graham Evans resigned shortly afterwards, three months into the job, citing a breakdown in relations with the Chairman.

The current members of the Board of Directors of Loblaw Companies Limited are: Galen G. Weston ( Executive Chairman ), Stephen E. Bachand, Paul M. Beeston, Gordon A. M. Currie, Anthony S. Fell, Christiane Germain, Anthony R. Graham, John S. Lacey, Nancy H. O. Lockhart, Thomas C. O ' Neil, and John D. Wetmore.

The Rover Group plc was formed by renaming BL plc in 1986, soon after the appointment by Margaret Thatcher of Canadian Graham Day to the position of Chairman and Managing Director of BL.

Meyer left that position only six months later ; he was Chairman of the Washington Post Company until his death in 1959, when Philip Graham took that position and the company expanded with the purchases of television stations and Newsweek magazine.

* Graham Taylor, former England Football Team Manager and former Manager and Chairman of Watford F. C.

* George G. Graham ( born 1931 ), former Chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party

Graham Taylor OBE ( born 15 September 1944, Worksop, Nottinghamshire ) is the former Chairman of Watford Football Club, having formerly been a football pundit, ex-football manager, and a former player.

* Nationalist Party Chairman :: Graham Sparks, Minnesota

It is rumoured that the new addition to the campus will be named the Graham Hughes Music School, after the Chairman of the Governors who commissioned the project.

Meyer remained a close adviser to his son-in-law until his death in 1959, at which time Graham assumed the titles of President and Chairman of the Board of the Post company.

* Sir Graham Hearne-Deputy Chairman of Gallaher Group ; Chairman and CEO of Enterprise Oil

According to the Washington Post, " on the morning of Sept. 11, Goss and Graham were having breakfast with a Pakistani general named Mahmud Ahmed -- the soon-to-be-sacked head of Pakistan's intelligence service " On September 12 and 13, Lt. Gen. Mahmood met with United States Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Senator Joseph Biden, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Donald E. Graham ( born April 22, 1945 ) is chief executive officer and Chairman of The Washington Post Company.

It was created in 1997 largely from Altrincham and Sale, and has been held since then by the Conservative Graham Brady, the Chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee since 2010.

The other members of the Advisory Council are: Mr. Nils Bruzelius, Executive Editor and Vice-President for Publications, Environmental Working Group, Dr. Gail H. Cassell, Ph. D., vice president of scientific affairs and distinguished research scholar for infectious diseases, Eli Lilly and Company ; Mr. Vinton G. Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google ; Ambassador James Franklin Collins, director and senior associate and diplomat in residence, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dr. Rita Colwell, Chairman and President of CosmosID ; Dr. Loren R. Graham, professor of history and science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Dr. William V. Harris, president and CEO of the Science Foundation Arizona ; Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, senior fellow and former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Dr. Najmedin Meshkati, Professor of Civil / Environmental Engineering and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California ; Dr. Richard Murphy, Ph. D., former president and CEO of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies ; and Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

In late 2005 Chisholm became Executive Chairman of QinetiQ, being replaced as CEO by Graham Love.