Graham Chapman

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Graham Chapman (January 8th 1941 - October 4th 1989) is a Acteur, Compositeur, British Scénariste , member of the Monty Python. He wrote Autobiographie of a liar and took part in the scenario of Barbe of gold and the pirates , The Odd Job .

Born the January 8th 1941, in Melton Mowbray, Leicester, Chapman made medical studies in Cambridge where it joined the troop of Footlight. One retains of Chapman his two great roles: king Arthur in Crowned Graal! and Brian Cohen in Life of Brian . Besides he plays these two parts with largest serious, contrary to his characters of Flying Circus, closer to his real nature of insane furious which tries to be controlled and to give a sizeable frontage. The perfect British gentleman by many sides - he smoked the pipe and practiced the alpinism and Rugby - he was in addition homosexual, and capable of amazing eccentricities. The author Douglas Adams, who collaborated with him, known as to have seen it with the pub of the corner drawing the attention of a barman by striking the zinc of its member!

Dice beginning of the year 70, the growing alcoholism of Chapman often irritated its partners, because he played drunk and forgot his counterparts. He had taken this practice towards the end of the televised series, and it culminated during the turning of Sacré Graal! , frequently stopped by its crises of Delirium tremens. However, when it accepted the role of Brian in the film éponyme, it undertook to cease drinking, and held word before the beginning of turning.

Chapman died of a cancer of the throat the October 4th 1989, and accepted memorable funeral. Cleese in particular broke out, using the series of euphemisms mild nutters of the “Dead Parrot” and other words of the English language usually little used in the funerary services. Michel Palin as for him, evoking his chronic delays of the time when it passed to take it for the meetings of writing, announced with the assistance: “Graham Chapman is among us of this moment even. Where if not in this moment even, in any case within twenty-five minutes. ”

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