Eric Idle
March 29, 1943 (81 years old) in South Shields, County Durham, England, UK
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Idle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces as Self - Writer & Actor
- 2019 · Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · An Accidental Studio as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · GQ Presents: Iconic Characters as Self
- 2017 · Terry Pratchett: Back in Black as Self
- 2016 · The Entire Universe as Self - Presenter
- 2014 · Monty Python: The Meaning of Live as Self
- 2014 · Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · What About Dick? as The Piano
- 2012 · Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO as Self
- 2012 · London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music as Self
- 2012 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- 2010 · Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall as
- 2010 · Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) as Baritonish / Stan / Loretta / Bob Dylan / Ben
- 2008 · We Are Most Amused as Self
- 2008 · Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus as Self
- 2008 · Monty Python Conquers America as Self
- 2007 · Movie Connections as Self
- 2007 · What the Pythons Did Next... as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · The Roots of Monty Python as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live as Self
- 2004 · The Nutcracker and the Mouseking as Drosselmeier (voice)
- 2003 · David Bowie - Sound and Vision as Self
- 2003 · The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life' as Self
- 2003 · The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch as Melvin/Dirk McQuickly/Lady Beth Mouse-Peddler
- 1998 · Monty Python: Live at Aspen as Self
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as Rat
- 1990 · Too Much Sun as Sonny
- 1990 · Life of Python as Self / Various Roles
- 1989 · Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python as Self / Various Characters
- 1985 · The Pied Piper of Hamelin as The Pied Piper / Robert Browning
- 1983 · Group Madness as Self
- 1982 · The Tale of the Frog Prince as Narrator
- 1981 · Steve Martin's Best Show Ever as Reporter
- 1979 · The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979 as Self
- 1978 · Yellow Submarine Sandwich as Dirk McQuickly (dialogue voice)
- 1972 · Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus as Various Characters
- 1966 · Alice in Wonderland as Young Man (uncredited)
- 1966 · Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World as Jazz Band Chauffeur (uncredited)
- Future · Nuclear Bogeyheads as Bogeyhead
- 2021 · Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated as Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
- 2019 · The Masked Singer as Hedgehog
- 2019 · The Masked Singer as Hedgehog (archive footage)
- 2018 · The Admiral: Pub, Drums and Food as Dirk McQuickley (archive footage)
- 2018 · Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind as Self
- 2015 · Absolutely Anything as Salubrious Gat (voice)
- 2014 · Monty Python Live (Mostly) as Self, others
- 2014 · Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar as Self
- 2014 · 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy as Self
- 2014 · The Comedy Vaults: BBC2's Hidden Treasure as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles as Self / Nigel Spasm
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2013 · The Meaning of Monty Python as Self
- 2012 · Inside Comedy as Self
- 2009 · Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) as Self
- 2008 · Delgo as Spig (voice)
- 2008 · The Seventh Python as Self
- 2008 · The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen as Self - 'Berthold'
- 2008 · Life Of Brian Screenplay as Mr. Cheeky, Stan aka Loretta, Harry the Haggler
- 2007 · Shrek the Third as Merlin (voice)
- 2007 · Hitler: The Comedy Years as Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The Secret Life of Brian as Self
- 2006 · The South Bank Show: Spamalot as
- 2006 · The One Show as Self
- 2006 · Monty Python's Personal Best as Self / Various Characters
- 2006 · Monty Python's Flying Circus - Graham Chapman's Personal Best as Various Characters
- 2006 · Monty Python's Flying Circus - Eric Idle's Personal Best as Various Characters
- 2005 · Earth to America as Self
- 2005 · The Aristocrats as Self
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · The Tony Danza Show as Self
- 2004 · The Soup as
- 2004 · Ella Enchanted as Narrator
- 2004 · The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1 as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3 as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2 as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure as English Victim
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Hollywood Homicide as Celebrity
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2002 · The Scream Team as Coffin Ed
- 2002 · Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe as Self
- 2001 · Brightness as Mr. Bix
- 2001 · Disney's House of Mouse as Pluto Angel (voice)
- 2000 · The Beatles Revolution as Self
- 2000 · The Life of Python as Self
- 2000 · 102 Dalmatians as Waddlesworth (voice)
- 2000 · Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as Guzelian (voice)
- 1999 · Pirates: 3D Show as Pierre
- 1999 · Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm as Self
- 1999 · Monty Python: 30th Anniversary Sketches as Self
- 1999 · The Monty Python Story as Self
- 1999 · Dudley Do-Right as Prospector
- 1999 · Hercules: Zero to Hero as Parenthesis (voice) (archive sound)
- 1999 · South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut as Dr. Vosknocker (voice)
- 1998 · The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue as Evil Martin (voice)
- 1998 · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie as Slyly (voice)
- 1998 · Hercules as Parenthesis (voice)
- 1998 · Quest for Camelot as Devon (voice)
- 1998 · An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn as Alan Smithee
- 1997 · State of Fear as
- 1996 · Bobcat Goldthwait Comedy Central "Pulp Comics" as Man in Bed
- 1996 · Clive Anderson All Talk as Self
- 1996 · Suddenly Susan as Ian Maxtone-Graham
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · MADtv as Zookeeper
- 1995 · Pinky and the Brain as Mom & Dad (voice)
- 1995 · Casper as Paul 'Dibbs' Plutzker
- 1993 · Frasier as Chuck (voice)
- 1993 · Splitting Heirs as Tommy Butterfly Rainbow Peace Patel
- 1992 · Mom and Dad Save the World as King Raff
- 1992 · Missing Pieces as Wendel
- 1991 · Pebble Mill as Self
- 1990 · Nuns on the Run as Brian Hope
- 1990 · One Foot In the Grave as Mervyn Whale
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Declan Desmond (voice)
- 1989 · How to Get Ahead in Advertising as Male Love Bird (voice) (uncredited)
- 1989 · Around the World in 80 Days as Jean Passepartout
- 1989 · Nearly Departed as Grant Pritchard
- 1989 · The Movie Life of George as Self
- 1988 · The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as Desmond / Berthold
- 1987 · The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado as Self
- 1987 · Going Live! as Self
- 1987 · The Mikado as Ko-Ko
- 1986 · The Transformers: The Movie as Wreck-Gar (voice)
- 1985 · National Lampoon's European Vacation as The Bike Rider
- 1983 · Yellowbeard as Commander Clement
- 1983 · Monty Python's The Meaning of Life as Various Roles
- 1983 · The Crimson Permanent Assurance as Gunther (uncredited)
- 1982 · Faerie Tale Theatre as Narrator (voice)
- 1982 · Faerie Tale Theatre as The Pied Piper / Robert Browning
- 1982 · Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl as Various Roles
- 1979 · Life of Brian as Mr. Cheeky / Stan 'Loretta' / Harry the Haggler / Culprit Woman / Warris / Intensely Dull Youth / Jailer's Assistant / Otto / Lead Singer Crucifee
- 1978 · The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash as Dirk McQuickly/The Narrator/S.J. Krammerhead
- 1976 · Laverne & Shirley as Derek DeWoods
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self / Various
- 1975 · Rutland Weekend Television as Various Characters
- 1975 · Monty Python and the Holy Grail as 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 as Self
- 1974 · Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report as Self
- 1973 · Monty Python In The Netherlands as
- 1971 · The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971 as
- 1971 · And Now for Something Completely Different as 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 as Various (as Montypython Flyingcircus)
- 1969 · Monty Python's Flying Circus as Various
- 1968 · We Have Ways Of Making You Laugh as Various
- 1967 · Do Not Adjust Your Set as Various Characters
- 1967 · Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
- 1967 · At Last the 1948 Show as
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Close-Up Toothpaste Relaunch as