Eric Idle

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Biography

Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer, and comedic composer who wrote and performed as a member of the popular British comedy group Monty Python.

Known For

The Simpsons

Declan Desmond (voice)

Shrek the Third

Merlin (voice)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Dead Collector / Peasant 1 / Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot / First Swamp Castle Guard / Concorde / Roger the Shrubber / Brother Maynard

Casper

Dibs

Life of Brian

Mr. Cheeky / Stan 'Loretta' / Harry the Haggler / Culprit Woman / Warris / Intensely Dull Youth / Jailer's Assistant / Otto / Lead Singer Crucifee

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Dr. Vosknocker (voice)

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Various Roles

Ella Enchanted

Narrator

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2024	STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces TV	Self - Writer & Actor
2021	Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated MOVIE	Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
2020	A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion MOVIE	The Impressive Clergyman
2019	Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	An Accidental Studio MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	The Masked Singer TV	Hedgehog
2019	The Masked Singer TV	Hedgehog (archive footage)
2018	GQ Presents: Iconic Characters TV	Self
2018	The Admiral: Pub, Drums and Food MOVIE	Dirk McQuickley (archive footage)
2018	Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind MOVIE	Self
2017	The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 MOVIE	Self - Audience Member
2017	Terry Pratchett: Back in Black MOVIE	Self
2016	The Entire Universe MOVIE	Self - Presenter
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV	Self - Guest
2015	Absolutely Anything MOVIE	Salubrious Gat (voice)
2014	Monty Python: The Meaning of Live MOVIE	Self
2014	Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) TV	Self (archive footage)
2014	Monty Python Live (Mostly) MOVIE	Self, others
2014	Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar MOVIE	Self
2014	50 Years of BBC Two Comedy MOVIE	Self
2014	The Comedy Vaults: BBC2's Hidden Treasure MOVIE	Self
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers TV	Self - Guest
2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon TV	Self
2014	The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles MOVIE	Self / Nigel Spasm
2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones TV	Self
2013	The Meaning of Monty Python MOVIE	Self
2012	What About Dick? MOVIE	The Piano
2012	London 2012 Olympic Games TV	Self
2012	Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO MOVIE	Self
2012	London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music MOVIE	Self
2012	The Secret Policeman's Ball MOVIE	Self
2012	Inside Comedy TV	Self
2011	George Harrison: Living in the Material World TV	Self
2010	Conan TV	Self - Guest
2010	Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall MOVIE	Self
2010	Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) MOVIE	Baritonish / Stan / Loretta / Bob Dylan / Ben
2010	Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release MOVIE	Self
2009	Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) TV	Self
2008	Delgo MOVIE	Spig (voice)
2008	We Are Most Amused MOVIE	Self
2008	Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus MOVIE	Self
2008	The Seventh Python MOVIE	Self
2008	The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen MOVIE	Self - 'Berthold'
2008	Life Of Brian Screenplay MOVIE	Mr. Cheeky, Stan aka Loretta, Harry the Haggler
2008	Monty Python Conquers America MOVIE	Self
2007	Movie Connections TV	Self
2007	Shrek the Third MOVIE	Merlin (voice)
2007	Hitler: The Comedy Years MOVIE	Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007	The Graham Norton Show TV	Self
2007	The Secret Life of Brian MOVIE	Self
2007	What the Pythons Did Next... MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2006	The One Show TV	Self
2006	Monty Python's Flying Circus—John Cleese's Personal Best MOVIE	Various Characters
2006	Monty Python's Flying Circus—Michael Palin's Personal Best MOVIE	Various Characters
2006	Monty Python's Flying Circus—Terry Gilliam's Personal Best MOVIE	Various Characters
2006	Monty Python's Flying Circus—Terry Jones' Personal Best MOVIE	Various Characters
2006	Monty Python's Flying Circus—Graham Chapman's Personal Best MOVIE	Various Characters
2006	Monty Python's Flying Circus—Eric Idle's Personal Best MOVIE	Various Characters
2006	Monty Python's Flying Circus—Graham Chapman's Personal Best MOVIE	Various Characters
2006	Monty Python's Personal Best TV	Self / Various Characters
2005	The Roots of Monty Python MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2005	Earth to America MOVIE	Self
2005	The Aristocrats MOVIE	Self
2005	Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live MOVIE	Self
2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson TV	Self
2004	The Nutcracker and the Mouseking MOVIE	Drosselmeier (voice)
2004	The Tony Danza Show TV	Self
2004	The Soup TV	Self
2004	Ella Enchanted MOVIE	Narrator
2004	The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2003	Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure MOVIE	English Victim
2003	David Bowie - Sound and Vision MOVIE	Self
2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show TV	Self
2003	The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life' MOVIE	Self
2003	Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles MOVIE	Melvin/Dirk McQuickly/Lady Beth Mouse-Peddler
2003	Hollywood Homicide MOVIE	Celebrity
2003	Real Time with Bill Maher TV	Self
2002	The Scream Team MOVIE	Coffin Ed
2002	Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe MOVIE	Self
2001	Brightness MOVIE	Mr. Bix
2001	Disney's House of Mouse TV	Pluto Angel (voice)
2000	The Beatles Revolution MOVIE	Self
2000	The Life of Python MOVIE	Self
2000	102 Dalmatians MOVIE	Waddlesworth (voice)
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command TV	Guzelian (voice)
1999	Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm MOVIE	Self
1999	Monty Python: 30th Anniversary Sketches MOVIE	Self
1999	The Monty Python Story MOVIE	Self
1999	Dudley Do-Right MOVIE	Prospector
1999	Hercules: Zero to Hero MOVIE	Parenthesis (voice) (archive sound)
1999	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut MOVIE	Dr. Vosknocker (voice)
1998	The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue MOVIE	Evil Martin (voice)
1998	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie MOVIE	Slyly (voice)
1998	Hercules TV	Parenthesis (voice)
1998	Quest for Camelot MOVIE	Devon (voice)
1998	Monty Python: Live at Aspen MOVIE	Self
1998	An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn MOVIE	Alan Smithee
1997	State of Fear MOVIE	Self
1996	Bobcat Goldthwait Comedy Central "Pulp Comics" MOVIE	Man in Bed
1996	The Wind in the Willows MOVIE	Rat
1996	Clive Anderson All Talk TV	Self
1996	Suddenly Susan TV	Ian Maxtone-Graham
1996	The Daily Show TV	Self - Guest
1995	MADtv TV	Zookeeper
1995	Pinky and the Brain TV	Mom & Dad (voice)
1995	Casper MOVIE	Dibs
1993	Frasier TV	Chuck (voice)
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien TV	Self - Guest
1993	Late Show with David Letterman TV	Self - Guest
1993	Splitting Heirs MOVIE	Tommy Butterfly Rainbow Peace Patel
1992	Mom and Dad Save the World MOVIE	King Raff
1992	Missing Pieces MOVIE	Wendel
1991	One Foot in the Grave: The Man In The Long Black Coat MOVIE	Mervyn Whale
1991	Pebble Mill TV	Self
1991	Too Much Sun MOVIE	Sonny
1990	Nuns on the Run MOVIE	Brian Hope
1990	Life of Python MOVIE	Self / Various Roles
1989	The Simpsons TV	Declan Desmond (voice)
1989	Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python MOVIE	Self / Various Characters
1989	How to Get Ahead in Advertising MOVIE	Male Love Bird (voice) (uncredited)
1989	Around the World in 80 Days TV	Jean Passepartout
1989	Nearly Departed TV	Grant Pritchard
1989	The Movie Life of George MOVIE	Self
1988	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen MOVIE	Desmond / Berthold
1987	The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado MOVIE	Self
1987	Going Live! TV	Self
1987	The Mikado MOVIE	Ko-Ko
1986	The Transformers: The Movie MOVIE	Wreck-Gar (voice)
1985	National Lampoon's European Vacation MOVIE	The Bike Rider
1985	The Pied Piper of Hamelin MOVIE	The Pied Piper / Robert Browning
1983	Yellowbeard MOVIE	Commander Clement
1983	Group Madness MOVIE	Self
1983	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life MOVIE	Various Roles
1983	The Crimson Permanent Assurance MOVIE	Gunther (uncredited)
1982	The Tale of the Frog Prince MOVIE	Narrator
1982	Faerie Tale Theatre TV	Narrator (voice)
1982	Faerie Tale Theatre TV	The Pied Piper / Robert Browning
1982	Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl MOVIE	Various Roles
1982	Late Night with David Letterman TV	Self - Guest
1981	Steve Martin's Best Show Ever MOVIE	Reporter
1979	Life of Brian MOVIE	Mr. Cheeky / Stan 'Loretta' / Harry the Haggler / Culprit Woman / Warris / Intensely Dull Youth / Jailer's Assistant / Otto / Lead Singer Crucifee
1979	The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979 MOVIE	Self
1978	The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash MOVIE	Dirk McQuickly/The Narrator/S.J. Krammerhead
1978	Yellow Submarine Sandwich MOVIE	Dirk McQuickly (dialogue voice)
1976	Laverne & Shirley TV	Derek DeWoods
1975	Saturday Night Live TV	Self - Host
1975	Saturday Night Live TV	Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975	Saturday Night Live TV	Self (uncredited)
1975	Saturday Night Live TV	Terry Halsey (uncredited)
1975	Rutland Weekend Television TV	Various Characters
1975	Monty Python and the Holy Grail MOVIE	Dead Collector / Peasant 1 / Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot / First Swamp Castle Guard / Concorde / Roger the Shrubber / Brother Maynard
1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche TV	Self
1974	Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report MOVIE	Self
1973	Monty Python In The Netherlands MOVIE	Self
1972	Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus TV	Various Characters
1971	The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971 MOVIE	Self
1971	And Now for Something Completely Different MOVIE	Prosecutor / Marriage Counselor / Arthur Nudge / Self-defence student #4 (interested in pointed sticks) / 'Hell's Grannies' analyst / Arthur Wilson / Arthur Wilson Two / Nightclub Emcee / Linkman / First General / Restaurant Manager / Lingerie Shop Owner / Accountant #1 (falling past the window) / Fairy Godmother / Rita Fairbanks / Simon Zinc Trumpet Harris / Mountie / Lady With Cookbook
1971	Euroshow '71: May Day Special MOVIE	Various (as Montypython Flyingcircus)
1969	Monty Python's Flying Circus TV	Various
1968	We Have Ways Of Making You Laugh TV	Various
1967	Do Not Adjust Your Set TV	Various Characters
1967	Titel, Thesen, Temperamente TV	Self
1967	At Last the 1948 Show TV	Self
1966	Alice in Wonderland MOVIE	Young Man (uncredited)
1966	Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World MOVIE	Jazz Band Chauffeur (uncredited)
1956	Tony Awards TV	Self - Nominee
	Close-Up Toothpaste Relaunch MOVIE	Self
	The Philosophers' Football Match MOVIE	Sokrates

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