People
Graham Chapman
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
Graham Arthur Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, physician, writer, and actor and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Brian in Monty Python's Life of Brian. He co-authored and starred in the film Yellowbeard. Chapman was born in Leicester but was raised in nearby Melton Mowbray. After graduating from Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Medical College, he turned down a career as a doctor to be a comedian.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Life of Brian
As Wise Man #2 / Brian Cohen / Biggus Dickus
Yellowbeard
As Captain Yellowbeard
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
As Various Roles
And Now for Something Completely Different
As Brother / Policeman / Defence attorney / British pedestrian / Mr. Harrison (Apricot) / The Colonel / 'Hell's Grannies' policeman / Jimmy Blankensop / Sir Edward Ross / Restaurant patron #1 / Letter Writer / Oliver St. John Mollusk / Mountie / Town Guild L
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
As Various Roles
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Breaking the Frame: A Journey Through the Fourth Wall
It began with a gun, a bullet, and an audience leaping out of their seats. When Justus D. Barnes leveled his revolver at the camera in The Great Train Robbery (...
8 films
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
Yellowbeard
1983 · Captain Yellowbeard
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1983 · Various Roles
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
1982 · Various Roles
Life of Brian
1979 · Wise Man #2 / Brian Cohen / Biggus Dickus
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 · King Arthur / Voice of God / Middle Head / Hiccoughing Guard
And Now for Something Completely Different
1971 · Brother / Policeman / Defence attorney / British pedestrian / Mr. Harrison (Apricot) / The Colonel / 'Hell's Grannies' policeman / Jimmy Blankensop / Sir Edward Ross / Restaurant patron #1 / Letter Writer / Oliver St. John Mollusk / Mountie / Town Guild L