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Eric Idle was born on 29 March 1943 in Harton Hospital, in South Shields. [1] His mother, Norah Barron Sanderson, [2] was a nurse, [1] and his father, Ernest Idle, [2] [3] served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, only to be killed in a road accident while hitchhiking home for Christmas in December 1945.
Splitting Heirs is a 1993 British black comedy film directed by Robert Young and starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese and Sadie Frost. It features music by Michael Kamen. It was entered in the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. [1]
It contained no new interviews with the Rutles; Rutle footage consisted of outtakes and unused film produced for the original 1978 mockumentary. Idle did new interviews with Hanks, Raitt, Williams, Shandling and Rushdie. Though he had declined to participate in the 1996 release of Archaeology, Idle used songs from the album in the film.
Idol on Parade (also known as Idle on Parade) is a 1959 British comedy film directed by John Gilling and starring William Bendix, Anthony Newley, Sid James and Lionel Jeffries. [1] The screenplay was by John Antrobus , based on the 1958 William Camp novel Idle on Parade [ 2 ] [ 3 ] which was inspired by Elvis Presley 's conscription into the US ...
Pages in category "Films with screenplays by Eric Idle" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Monty Python's Life of Brian (also known as Life of Brian) is a 1979 British black comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin).
The film was co-produced by the production companies of Eric Idle and Lorne Michaels, and it was directed by Idle and Gary Weis. It was first broadcast on 22 March 1978 on NBC, earning the lowest [2] [3] ratings of any show on American prime time network television that week, though those who did watch it gave almost unanimously good reviews. [2]
The Rutles (/ ˈ r ʌ t əl z /) were a rock band that performed visual and aural pastiches and parodies of the Beatles.This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for a sketch in Idle's mid-1970s BBC television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, later toured and recorded, releasing two studio albums and garnering two UK chart hits.