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Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was one of the six members of the surrealist comedy group Monty Python. He portrayed authority figures such as The Colonel and the lead role in two Python films, Holy Grail (1975) and Life of Brian (1979).
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science · English actor, comedian and writer (1941–1989) · comedian · writer · actor · screenwriter · film actor · composer · autobiographer · physician · television actor · also Graham Chapman, Gray Chapman, Graham Arthur Chapman, Chapman
Born 8 January 1941 · Died 4 October 1989 · Q24962
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2018· 1 entry
Published “2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension” in European Heart Journal — cited 8,317 times.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Looks Like Another Brown Trouser Job”.
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The album and DVD release Looks Like Another Brown Trouser Job came out, featuring a college lecture recorded in April 1988
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2005· 1 entry
In association with the David Sherlock and John Tomiczek trust
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Chapman's play O Happy Day was performed by Dad's Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta, Georgia, with the assistance of Cleese and Palin
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1997· 1 entry
Sherlock allowed Jim Yoakum to start the "Graham Chapman Archives"
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1992· 1 entry
Tomiczek later became Chapman's business manager; he died of a heart attack in 1992 at age 35.
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1989· 5 entries
Died 1989-10-04.
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Chapman died of tonsil cancer which had spread to his spine
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“It's fear. … There's no point in it. We should just love each other, and do it in our own way. That's the only thing that's important.”
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“There was one occasion when John Cleese and myself actually felt guilty about laughing at something we were writing, because it was in incredibly bad taste. So bad was the taste that we just couldn't help laughing at it. It concerned a gentleman walking into … an undertaker's premises with his dead mother in a sack. And from there it got worse.”
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“[My parents] came to grips with the drinking … much more easily, I think, than [with my sexuality]. Yes. But, things are rather better now than in those days, of course. It was some time ago. And now, even the Church of England, I think, regards a homosexual as merely being handicapped.”
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1988· 3 entries
Chapman made a routine visit to a dentist, who found a small, malignant tumour on one of his tonsils, leading to both being removed via a tonsillectomy
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Chapman appeared in the Iron Maiden video "Can I Play with Madness"
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Also appeared on stage with three other Pythons (Gilliam, Jones and Palin) at the 41st British Academy Film Awards where Monty Python received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema
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1980· 1 entry
Choosing the title because he said "it's almost impossible to tell the truth"
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1978· 2 entries
And the work stalled, eventually being rewritten by McKenna, then by Peter Cook
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Chapman co-wrote the comedy film The Odd Job with Bernard McKenna and starred as one of the main characters
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1976· 1 entry
Chapman began writing a pirate film, Yellowbeard (1983), which came out of conversations between Chapman and Moon while in Los Angeles
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1975· 1 entry
Chapman and Douglas Adams wrote a pilot for a television series, entitled Out of the Trees, but it received poor ratings after being broadcast at the same time as Match of the Day and only the initial episode was produce
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1973· 1 entry
Chapman's drinking had begun to affect his performance, causing him to miss cues to go on stage, and he was known to suffer from delirium tremens (DTs)
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1972· 2 entries
On a television show hosted by English jazz and blues singer George Melly, Chapman first disclosed his homosexuality publicly, becoming one of the first celebrities to do so
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Chapman supported the newspaper Gay News, which listed him as one of the publication's "special friends" in recognition
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1971· 1 entry
Chapman and Sherlock adopted John Tomiczek as their son
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1969· 1 entry
Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam, for their sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus
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1968· 1 entry
And the pair enjoyed visiting gay clubs in Central London
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1959· 1 entry
Chapman began reading medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-01-08.
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