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American Friends is a 1991 British film starring Michael Palin. ... Palin plays Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford professor on holiday in the Swiss Alps in 1861.
Palin was cast in a supporting role in the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan romantic comedy You've Got Mail, but his role was eventually cut entirely. [38] Palin has also appeared in serious drama. In 1991 Palin appeared in a film, American Friends, he wrote based upon a real event in the life of his great-grandfather, a fellow at St John's College, Oxford.
After Stella, Alvarado played the role of Elinor Hartley in American Friends, which Michael Palin both wrote and starred. Alvarado later worked alongside John Goodman on the 1992 biopic The Babe, playing the role of Helen Woodford Ruth. Alvarado worked with director Gillian Armstrong on the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women
[1] [6] [7] He founded Prominent Features and Prominent Television with John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin in 1985. [1] [7] Under Prominent Features, Steve Abbott produced A Fish Called Wanda, Brassed Off, American Friends, Blame It on the Bellboy and Fierce Creatures.
In 1997, Palin and Cleese rolled out a new version of the "Dead Parrot sketch" for Saturday Night Live. [99] Monty Python were the inaugural recipients of the Empire Inspiration Award in 1997. Palin, Jones and Gilliam received the award on stage in London from Elton John while Cleese and Idle appeared via satellite from Los Angeles. [108]
29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976 [84]; A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child [85]
He has also appeared in some of the solo film projects of the members of Monty Python: Privates on Parade (with John Cleese), [2] American Friends (1991) with Michael Palin. [5] He appeared in the Terry Gilliam film Brazil (1985) alongside Jonathan Pryce and Robert De Niro, [2] also worked alongside Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys ...
In the 1990s, then in his eighties, Jewel continued to make appearances in film and television. He appeared as Cannonball Lee, the boxing-loving grandfather of the Kray twins in the 1990 film The Krays, and as Michael Palin's father in American Friends (1991). [19]