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Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator, and actor. In a career spanning more than five decades, he has received various accolades including the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2009, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award.
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Born 22 November 1940 · Q25078
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2026· 3 entries
“made [him] cry: the idea that no longer six white Oxbridge men can make a comedy show. Now we need one of this, one of that, everybody represented... This is bullshit. I no longer want to be a white male, I don”
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“The Old Vic allowed itself to be intimidated into cancelling our production ... by a small group of closed-minded, humour-averse ideologues on their staff ... as if they are victims of some cruel injustice desperately fighting for their freedom! My unspeakable crime was recommending my Facebook followers to watch a Netflix special by a brilliant and provocative American comedian”
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2025· 6 entries
The Guardian: ‘He played with language better than anybody’: Terry Gilliam and John Boorman on Tom Stoppard
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The Guardian: Post your questions for Terry Gilliam
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The Guardian: ‘I said goodbye to Heath Ledger at this urinal’: a stroll round Terry Gilliam’s pivotal places
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Yahoo: Terry Gilliam on the Timeliness of ‘Brazil’ at 40, How Donald Trump “F***ed Up” His Next Film
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Yahoo: Terry Gilliam Reflects On ‘Brazil’ As Film Celebrates 40th Anniversary & The Challenges Of Getting Movies Made Today: “I Really Don’t Want Any More Fights”
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: Johnny Depp to play Satan opposite Jeff Bridges as God in Terry Gilliam biblical comedy
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The Guardian: Terry Gilliam: ‘Robin Williams was one of the most stunning people I’ve ever met’
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘Robert De Niro prepared to play a plumber by watching a brain surgeon’: Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce on making Brazil
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: Sarah Polley: ‘It took me years to see how responsible Terry Gilliam was for my terror’
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The Guardian: Lost in La Mancha review – landmark doc of Terry Gilliam’s cinematic nightmare
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2021· 3 entries
The Guardian: Musical to move after unrest at Old Vic over Terry Gilliam remarks
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The Guardian: He Dreams of Giants review – Terry Gilliam's inspiring La Mancha sequel
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His production of Into the Woods was set to play at The Old Vic, a prominent London theatre
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2016· 1 entry
It was confirmed that The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was going to be made, with Michael Palin and Adam Driver in starring roles
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2014· 1 entry
“Dreams of Don Quixote have begun again”
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Winsor McCay Award (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Award for Best Short Film for The Wholly Family (2011).
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Inkpot Award (2009).
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Became a board member of Videre Est Credere (Latin for "to see is to believe"), a UK human rights charity
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As well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award
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2008· 1 entry
With Johnny Depp still attached to the project
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2006· 1 entry
Gilliam made his debut as theatre director by directing the stage show Slava's Diabolo, created and staged by the Russian clown artist Slava Polunin
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2005· 1 entry
Gilliam released The Brothers Grimm, followed later in the year by Tideland
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Annual award ACFK presented by Association of Czech Film Clubs (2004).
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2002· 1 entry
Gilliam directed a series of television advertisements called "Secret Tournament"
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Time Machine Award (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Gilliam attempted to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which was budgeted at US$32
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1997· 1 entry
(in the introduction to their 2004 book Terry Gilliam: Interviews, David Sterrit and Lucille Rhodes claimed that the internet had overwhelmed the "computer-communications market" and gave this as the reason that the Anim
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1994· 1 entry
Which used many of Gilliam's animation templates, and the making of Gilliam's film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Gilliam was in negotiations with Enteractive, a software company, to tentatively release in the au
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1988· 1 entry
For Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
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1980· 5 entries
“Evil one: – Boga nie interesuje technologia. Nie ma pojęcia o potędze mikrochipów czy rewolucji krzemowej. Spójrzcie jak spędza czas. Czterdzieści trzy gatunki papug! Sutki u mężczyzn!”
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“The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work … Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.”
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“Opis: Jeliza Rose do swojego naćpanego do nieprzytomności ojca.”
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“The underground press was convinced that I was a junkie, an acid head. … But I don't do drugs. I don't like being fucked up. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.”
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“We read Dover Books, because you can steal from them. The medieval imagery and iconography is so good for the imagination. Trying to describe the world, trying to describe the cosmos, trying to put it down in neat orderly fashion, unlike reality. And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.”
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1978· 1 entry
Published Animations of Mortality, an illustrated, tongue-in-cheek, semi-autobiographical how-to guide to his animation techniques and the visual language in them
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1977· 1 entry
Directed his first film outside the group, Jabberwocky, also a comedy set in the Middle Ages
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1975· 1 entry
Gilliam began his career as a director by co-directing Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Jones
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1968· 3 entries
In 1968, Gilliam obtained British citizenship.
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Gilliam obtained British citizenship
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And formally renounced his American citizenship in 2006
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1962· 1 entry
Where he was a member of the California Epsilon chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, with a Bachelor of Arts in political science
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1952· 1 entry
The family moved to the Los Angeles neighborhood of Panorama City
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-11-22.
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