About
Eric Idle
Overview
Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer, and comedic composer who wrote and performed as a member of the popular British comedy group Monty Python.
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Known for
Acting |
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| 2021 | Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated | Actor | Self (archive footage)(uncredited) | N/A N/A |
| 2020 | A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion | Actor | The Impressive Clergyman | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2019 | An Accidental Studio | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2018 | The Admiral: Pub, Drums and Food | Actor | Dirk McQuickley (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind | Actor | Self | 65 Fair |
| 2017 | Terry Pratchett: Back in Black | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2016 | The Entire Universe | Actor | Self - Presenter | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Absolutely Anything | Actor | Salubrious Gat (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Actor | Self, others | 60 Fair |
| 2014 | Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2014 | 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2014 | The Comedy Vaults: BBC2's Hidden Treasure | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2014 | The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles | Actor | Self / Nigel Spasm | 59 Average |
| 2013 | The Meaning of Monty Python | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2012 | What About Dick? | Actor | The Piano | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Steve Martin: The Television Stuff | Actor | 60 Fair |
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| 2012 | London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2012 | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2010 | Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) | Actor | Baritonish / Stan / Loretta / Bob Dylan / Ben | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2009 | Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) | Actor | Self | 71 Good |
| 2008 | Delgo | Actor | Spig (voice) | 57 Average |
| 2008 | We Are Most Amused | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2008 | The Seventh Python | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen | Actor | Self - 'Berthold' | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Life Of Brian Screenplay | Actor | Mr. Cheeky, Stan aka Loretta, Harry the Haggler | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | Monty Python Conquers America | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | Actor | Merlin (voice) | 62 Fair |
| 2007 | Hitler: The Comedy Years | Actor | Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 2007 | The Secret Life of Brian | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 2007 | What the Pythons Did Next... | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | The South Bank Show: Spamalot | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2006 | Monty Python's Flying Circus - Eric Idle's Personal Best | Actor | Various Characters | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Monty Python's Flying Circus - Graham Chapman's Personal Best | Actor | Various Characters | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Monty Python's Personal Best | Actor | Self / Various Characters | 68 Fair |
| 2005 | The Roots of Monty Python | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Earth to America | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2005 | The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset | Actor | 62 Fair |
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| 2005 | The Aristocrats | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2004 | The Nutcracker and the Mouseking | Actor | Drosselmeier (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Ella Enchanted | Actor | Narrator | 63 Fair |
| 2004 | The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2 | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3 | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1 | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure | Actor | English Victim | 55 Average |
| 2003 | David Bowie - Sound and Vision | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2003 | The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2003 | The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch | Actor | Melvin/Dirk McQuickly/Lady Beth Mouse-Peddler | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Hollywood Homicide | Actor | Celebrity | 54 Average |
| 2002 | The Scream Team | Actor | Coffin Ed | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2001 | Brightness | Actor | Mr. Bix | 59 Average |
| 2000 | The Beatles Revolution | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2000 | The Life of Python | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2000 | 102 Dalmatians | Actor | Waddlesworth (voice) | 56 Average |
| 1999 | Pirates: 3D Show | Actor | Pierre | 58 Average |
| 1999 | The Monty Python Story | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | Monty Python: 30th Anniversary Sketches | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | Dudley Do-Right | Actor | Prospector | 54 Average |
| 1999 | Hercules: Zero to Hero | Actor | Parenthesis (voice) (archive sound) | 59 Average |
| 1999 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | Actor | Dr. Vosknocker (voice) | 70 Good |
| 1998 | The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue | Actor | Evil Martin (voice) | 57 Average |
| 1998 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie | Actor | Slyly (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Quest for Camelot | Actor | Devon (voice) | 64 Fair |
| 1998 | Monty Python: Live at Aspen | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1998 | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn | Actor | Alan Smithee | 57 Average |
| 1997 | State of Fear | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1996 | Bobcat Goldthwait Comedy Central "Pulp Comics" | Actor | Man in Bed | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | The Wind in the Willows | Actor | Rat | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Suddenly Susan | Actor | Ian Maxtone-Graham | 66 Fair |
| 1995 | Casper | Actor | Paul 'Dibbs' Plutzker | 62 Fair |
| 1993 | Splitting Heirs | Actor | Tommy Butterfly Rainbow Peace Patel | 57 Average |
| 1992 | Mom and Dad Save the World | Actor | King Raff | 57 Average |
| 1992 | Missing Pieces | Actor | Wendel | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Too Much Sun | Actor | Sonny | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Life of Python | Actor | Self / Various Roles | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Nuns on the Run | Actor | Brian Hope | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python | Actor | Self / Various Characters | 59 Average |
| 1989 | How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Actor | Male Love Bird (voice) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Around the World in 80 Days | Actor | Jean Passepartout | 67 Fair |
| 1989 | Around the World in 80 Days | Actor | Jean Passepartout | 61 Fair |
| 1989 | Nearly Departed | Actor | Grant Pritchard | 69 Fair |
| 1989 | The Movie Life of George | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1988 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Actor | Desmond / Berthold | 65 Fair |
| 1987 | The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | The Mikado | Actor | Ko-Ko | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | The Transformers: The Movie | Actor | Wreck-Gar (voice) | 65 Fair |
| 1985 | National Lampoon's European Vacation | Actor | The Bike Rider | 60 Fair |
| 1985 | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Actor | The Pied Piper / Robert Browning | 59 Average |
| 1983 | Yellowbeard | Actor | Commander Clement | 57 Average |
| 1983 | Group Madness | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1983 | The Crimson Permanent Assurance | Actor | Gunther (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 1983 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | Actor | Various Roles | 70 Good |
| 1982 | The Tale of the Frog Prince | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 1982 | Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | Actor | Various Roles | 62 Fair |
| 1981 | Steve Martin's Best Show Ever | Actor | Reporter | 59 Average |
| 1979 | Life of Brian | Actor | Mr. Cheeky / Stan 'Loretta' / Harry the Haggler / Culprit Woman / Warris / Intensely Dull Youth / Jailer's Assistant / Otto / Lead Singer Crucifee | 75 Good |
| 1979 | The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979 | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1978 | The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash | Actor | Dirk McQuickly/The Narrator/S.J. Krammerhead | 60 Fair |
| 1978 | Yellow Submarine Sandwich | Actor | Dirk McQuickly (dialogue voice) | 59 Average |
| 1975 | Rutland Weekend Television | Actor | Various Characters | 69 Fair |
| 1975 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Actor | Dead Collector / Peasant 1 / Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot / First Swamp Castle Guard / Concorde / Roger the Shrubber / Brother Maynard | 76 Good |
| 1974 | Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1973 | Monty Python In The Netherlands | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1972 | Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus | Actor | Various Characters | 69 Fair |
| 1971 | The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971 | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1971 | Euroshow '71: May Day Special | Actor | Various (as Montypython Flyingcircus) | N/A N/A |
| 1969 | Monty Python's Flying Circus | Actor | Various | 81 Very good |
| 1968 | We Have Ways Of Making You Laugh | Actor | Various | N/A N/A |
| 1967 | Do Not Adjust Your Set | Actor | Various Characters | 69 Fair |
| 1967 | At Last the 1948 Show | Actor | 70 Good |
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| 1966 | Alice in Wonderland | Actor | Young Man (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1966 | Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World | Actor | Jazz Band Chauffeur (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| Close-Up Toothpaste Relaunch | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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| 2014 | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Directing | Director | 60 Fair |
| 2012 | What About Dick? | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 2003 | The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
| 1982 | The Tale of the Frog Prince | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 1981 | Steve Martin's Best Show Ever | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 1978 | The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash | Directing | Director | 60 Fair |
Writing |
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| 2016 | The Entire Universe | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Writing | Writer | 60 Fair |
| 2012 | What About Dick? | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2012 | What About Dick? | Writing | Musical | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Life Of Brian Screenplay | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Spamalot | Writing | Book | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Spamalot | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Pirates: 3D Show | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
| 1993 | Splitting Heirs | Writing | Writer | 57 Average |
| 1989 | Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 1983 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | Writing | Screenplay | 70 Good |
| 1982 | The Tale of the Frog Prince | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 1982 | Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | Writing | Writer | 62 Fair |
| 1979 | Life of Brian | Writing | Screenplay | 75 Good |
| 1978 | The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash | Writing | Writer | 60 Fair |
| 1975 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Writing | Writer | 76 Good |
| 1971 | The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971 | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
Production |
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| 2003 | The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
| 1993 | Splitting Heirs | Production | Executive Producer | 57 Average |
Sound |
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| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | Sound | Songs | 65 Fair |
| 2004 | Spamalot | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |