John Cleese (1939)
55.6 TOPICAL actor score · #453 of 1,977 actors
John Cleese (1939) has a TOPICAL actor score of 55.6 - ranked 453 of the 1,977 actors TOPICAL ranks. Their strongest parts are credits and career standing. They've won 1 acting honour from 1 nomination, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Their best ten-year run was 1975-1984. Best films: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Life of Brian (1979).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours70
Prime72
Their movies69
Credits81
Career standing78
- Acting honours1 win, 1 nomination - incl. BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Prime1975-1984
- Credits83 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 21 scored films (4 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 77 languages
“In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe that created the surreal sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974).”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 6/10
John Cleese's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 418 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | 2 |
| 644 | Life of Brian | 1979 | 2 |
| 742 | A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | 2 |
| 929 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | 6 |
| 1,630 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | 3 |
| 2,486 | Silverado | 1985 | 7 |
| 2,659 | Charlotte's Web | 2006 | 4 |
| 3,113 | And Now for Something Completely Different | 1971 | 2 |
| 3,287 | Shrek Forever After | 2010 | 7 |
| 3,687 | Shrek the Third | 2007 | 7 |
| 3,730 | Clifford the Big Red Dog | 2021 | 4 |
| 3,780 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 1994 | 8 |
| 3,885 | The Swan Princess | 1994 | 5 |
| 4,141 | The World Is Not Enough | 1999 | 8 |
| 4,283 | Die Another Day | 2002 | 7 |
| 4,687 | The Jungle Book | 1994 | 5 |
| 5,615 | Planes | 2013 | 7 |
| 5,652 | George of the Jungle | 1997 | 4 |
| 5,664 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 2008 | 6 |
| 5,952 | Planet 51 | 2009 | 6 |
| 6,220 | The Pink Panther 2 | 2009 | 8 |