formances, and make movies, such asMonty Python and the Holy Gail (1975), a spoof on the legend of King Arthur and hisquest for the Holy Grail, and The Meaning of Life (1983), which was Monty Python'sview on the stages of life (TFUMPS).At the emerging point of his career that was his BBC works, he met Americanactress Connie Booth, who he would wed in 1968 (TLOMP). The couple would write andstar in a small motion picture in 1974 but would have great success in the televisionseries Fawlty Towers. Fawlty Towers was about an incompetent innkeeper and hisstruggles to run his business. The show also stared Andrew Sachs and Prunella Scales.The couple divorced in 1976 but kept working together on the series (CurrentBiography).After Towers, Cleese continued working in both writing and performing. He didnumerous television and radio commercials using his company Video Arts Ltd., which hefounded in 1976. Other works through his company were business training films, whichhe both produced and acted in. Video Arts Ltd. won the Queen's Award for Exports in1982 (Current Biography).His most successful movie after the Python fame was A Fish Called Wanda, co-written by Cleese and Charles Chrichton. Wanda was a comedy that trailers described as"A tale of murder, greed, lust, revenge and seafood." (TLOMP) Wanda had Cleese alongwith old Python member Michael Palin, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline as the maincast. A movie called Fierce Creatures followed in 1997, Cleese was majorly involved inthe writing of this, too. Creatures contained the same cast, and had the same theme, butwas not necessarily a sequel.Another of Cleese's great works is a collaborative book with his formerpsychotherapist Robin Skynner in 1983. The book was called Families and How toSurvive Them. The book was a serious discussion of relationships, based on tapedconversations between Skynner and Cleese over a three-and-a-half year period. (CurrentBiography, TLOMP)In conclusion, John Clee...
