Strange animations between sketches were crafted in the final episodes by the then-unknown Terry Gilliam, who also graduated to Python – part of his " Christmas cards " animation reappeared there in the " Joy to the World " segment.

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

Contemporary filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Girish Kasaravalli, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, and Juraj Jakubisko have cited Fellini's influence on their work.

In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus.

At the 1998 Aspen Comedy Arts festival, the urn was " accidentally " knocked over by Terry Gilliam, spilling the " ashes " on-stage.

It also made a brief appearance in the 1977 film Jabberwocky where it was being held by King Bruno the Questionable ( the latter film was directed by Terry Gilliam, starred Michael Palin, and featured a cameo by Terry Jones, all members of Monty Python ).

Each Python ( especially Terry Gilliam ) also played various bystanders and hangers-on.

* Terry Gilliam – Another person further forward ( at Mount – " Do you hear that?

Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam, while promoting Holy Grail in Amsterdam, had come up with a sketch in which Jesus ' cross was falling apart because of the idiotic carpenters who built it and he angrily tells them how to do it correctly.

Terry Gilliam later said, " They pulled out on the Thursday.

Directing duties were handled solely by Terry Jones on this project, having amicably agreed with Gilliam ( who co-directed Holy Grail ) that Jones ' approach to film-making was better suited for Python's general performing style.

Afterwards, George Lucas met Terry Gilliam in San Francisco and praised Gilliam for his work.

The logo of the Judean People's Front, designed by Terry Gilliam, was a Star of David with a small line added to each point so it resembled a swastika, most familiar in the West as the symbol of the anti-Semitic Nazi movement.

Midway through the interview, Terry Gilliam put his feet up on the table and knocked the urn off, spilling the ashes and prompting a frantic, slapstick attempt to clean him up with a dustpan and brush, and subsequently a dustbuster.

Another captor ( Terry Gilliam ) notices the two deceased officers and points his gun at Palin, who recites the joke to the captor, who also dies laughing.

" At this point, the Inquisition — consisting of Cardinal Ximénez ( Michael Palin ), and his assistants Cardinal Biggles ( Terry Jones ), and Cardinal Fang ( Terry Gilliam )— burst into the room to the sound of a jarring musical sting.

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.

Although the members of Monty Python had already encountered each other over the years, The Frost Report was the first time all the British members of Monty Python ( its sixth member, Terry Gilliam, was at that time an American citizen ) worked together.

The animations for Do Not Adjust Your Set were made by Terry Gilliam.

In 1980, Palin co-wrote Time Bandits with Terry Gilliam.

In 1984, he reunited with Terry Gilliam to appear in Brazil.

La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles ( and, later for, parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well ) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ).

( The VHS version of the 1980s, sharing the removal of the Scarecrow's laugh from Terry Gilkyson's title song, was expanded to include the story material from all three TV episodes, while retaining feature film structure and credits ; it was available for a relatively short amount of time.

Moreover, film adaptations of some novels are in preproduction, such as David Farland's The Runelords, and also Terry Brooks ' Magic Kingdom of Landover as well as The Elfstones of Shannara.

In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth was finally lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones and Michael Palin alongside mayor Sue Jones-Davies ( who portrayed Judith Iscariot in the film ).

In the section where Life of Brian is being discussed, Terry Jones says, " I think the film is heretical, but it ’ s not blasphemous ".

He starred as Dennis the Peasant in Terry Gilliam's 1977 film Jabberwocky.

Apart from Fierce Creatures, Palin's last film role was a small part in The Wind in the Willows, a film directed by and starring Terry Jones.

* In Terry Bisson's Voyage to the Red Planet ( 1990 ), the first expedition to Mars is organized by a Hollywood producer so he can film a science fiction movie on location.

The semi-autobiographical film was written and directed by former Rolling Stone columnist Cameron Crowe and featured portrayals of publisher Jann Wenner ( Eion Bailey ), editor Ben Fong-Torres ( Terry Chen ), David Felton ( Rainn Wilson ) and others in Rolling Stones 1970s San Francisco offices.

A feature film version of Bellbird entitled Country Town was produced in 1971 not by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation but by two of the show's stars, Gary Gray and Terry McDermott.

The term is taken from the title of Terry Sanders ' 1987 film Slow Fires: On the preservation of the human record.

Raimi is slated to direct a film adaptation of The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett.

Terrence Vance " Terry " Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940 ) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

* Terry Gilliam awarded the Fellowship of the Kermodes, by film critic Mark Kermode.

In late 2009, Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was released, with Waits in the role of Mr. Nick.

In one of the most famous scenes in film history, Terry reminds Charley that if it had not been for the fixed fight, " I coulda been a contender.

To some critics, Brando gives the " best performance in American film history ," playing an ex-boxer, Terry Malloy, who is persuaded by a priest to inform on corrupt unions.

The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

The director, Terry Jones, issued the following riposte to this criticism: " Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly ".

He was the third director to join the project after Antoine Fuqua and Terry George.

Gilliam's long-time director of photography Nicola Pecorini has said, " with Terry and me, a long lens means something between a 40mm and a 65mm.

In the 2000 Channel 4 programme The 100 Greatest TV Ads, Terry Lovelock, the director of several of these commercials, revealed that he found Rossiter difficult to work with, and that he used to jokingly refer to Collins as " The Prop ".

Jones co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Gilliam, and was sole director on two further Monty Python movies, Life of Brian and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

He also starred in the 2005 Terry Gilliam film Tideland, his second with the director ( the first being 1991's The Fisher King ).

In the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the character of Tony, played by Heath Ledger, is found hanging ( alive ) under Blackfriars Bridge, described by director Terry Gilliam as " an homage to Roberto Calvi ".

The result was Tomkinson's Schooldays ( a title loosely inspired by Tom Brown's Schooldays, and suggested by BBC director Terry Hughes ).

* Rawson Marshall Thurber, director of Dodgeball: a True Underdog Story and " Terry Tate " commercials for Reebok

* Terry McDermott, LA Dodgers, TV sports reporter / director.

This short film was selected by director and animator Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time, and critic Jonathan Romney included it on his list of the ten best films in any medium ( for Sight and Sound's 2002 critics ' poll ).

Production designer Ferretti afterwards compared Gilliam to his former director, saying, " Terry is very similar to Fellini in spirit.

Terry isn't a director so much as a film author.

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and found that it was " told with a cheerfulness and a light touch that never betray the time and money it took to create them ", appreciating " the sly wit and satire that sneaks in here and there from director Terry Gilliam and his collaborators, who were mostly forged in the mill of Monty Python ".

Nunn ( who had been appointed to follow Hall's tenure at the National Theatre in 1986 ) ceded his RSC executive directorship to his co-artistic director Terry Hands, who took the brunt of media hostility during a difficult few years for the company.

La Jetée was the inspiration for 12 Monkeys, ( 1995 ) director Terry Gilliam's film about time travel, memory, and madness.

They had four children, Elizabeth (" Betsy "), John Terry, Charles White, and Edward Stettinius Trippe, who now resides in Tucker's Town, Bermuda, where he is executive director of the Tucker's Point Club and serves on Bermuda International Airport's advisory board.

Skulls feature prominently, as well as gothic architecture, absurdly large weapons and shoulder-armor, and bizarre imagery reminiscent of director Terry Gilliam's work, as well as a strong dose of black comedy.

Perkins ' first husband was Chicago actor and director Terry Kinney ; the couple divorced.

* Terry Zwigoff, American documentary and feature film director

His other son, Terry McDonough, is director of player personnel for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the National Football League.

Ronnie Corbett, producers James Gilbert, Terry Hughes ( film director ) and Michael Hurll as well as writers Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent, David Renwick and Barry Cryer all spoke about the making of the series.

* Terry Marcotte-sports director ; weeknights at 11: 30 p. m.