Happy Happy to John Marwood Cleese....son of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.... the only child of Reginald Francis Cleese, an insurance salesman, and his wife Muriel Evelyn (née Cross). His familys surname was originally Cheese, but his father had thought it was embarrassing and changed it when he enlisted in the Army during World War I. Cleese was one of the script writers, as well as being a member of the cast, for the 1963 Footlights Revue A Clump of Plinths, which was so successful during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that it was renamed Cambridge Circus and taken to the West End in London and then on a tour of New Zealand and Broadway, with the cast also appearing in some of the revues sketches on The Ed Sullivan Show in October 1964. After Cambridge Circus, Cleese briefly stayed in America, performing on and Off-Broadway. While performing in the musical Half a Sixpence, Cleese met future Python Terry Gilliam, as well as American actress Connie Booth, whom he married on 20 February 1968. youtube/watch?v=LJmWQXxngwE
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 01:03:45 +0000
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