Eric Idle Biography

Eric Idle was born in March 1943 in South Shields County Durham U.K. As a young child he lived in Manchester and attended Pembroke College Cambridge to read English Literature in which he took his B.A. in 1965.
From 1964 - 1965 he was President of The Footlights Dramatic Club (founded in 1883) and changed the rules to accept women members the first of whom was Germaine Greer. After touring with her in the annual Footlights Revue My Girl Herbert which ran for a brief time at The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith he spent a season in Leicester Rep before moving to London appearing in two BBC TV Movies: Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland and Ken Russell’s Isadora and then starting to write professionally for BBC Radio’s I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again and BBC Television’s The Frost Report which won The Golden Rose of Montreux.
In 1968 he began writing and acting in two series of a children’s TV hit Do Not Adjust Your Set with Michael Palin Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam which won The Priz Jeunnesse Munich for Best Children’s Television. The success of this show led to four series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus for the BBC from July 1969 through 1973 with the addition of John Cleese and Graham Chapman. The Pythons made several stage appearances Monty Python’s First Farewell Tour (UK and Canada 1973) Monty Python Live at Drury Lane (1974) Monty Python Live at City Center (1976) and several movies And Now For Something Completely Different (1971) Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975) The Life of Brian (1979) Monty Python Live at The Hollywood Bowl (1982) and The Meaning of Life (1983).

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