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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure is a 1999 BBC television documentary presented by Michael Palin. It records Palin's travels as he visited many sites where Ernest Hemingway had been. The sites include Spain, Chicago, Paris, Italy, Africa, Key West, Cuba, and Idaho.
Website. themichaelpalin.com. Sir Michael Edward Palin KCMG, CBE, FRGS, FRSGS, FRSL (/ ˈpeɪlɪn /; born 5 May 1943 [1]) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. [2]
Join Michael Palin to experience Hemingway's world by virtually revisiting the places and passions that meant the most to one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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Attended Birkdale Preparatory School, Sheffield. First dramatic appearance as Martha Cratchit in school production of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. (Fell off stage.)
Joined Brightside and Carbrook Co-Operative Society Players whilst working in publicity department of Edgar Allen & Co. Steelmakers. Won Best Perf. Gent Award at Co-Op Drama Festival, Bradford. To Brasenose College, Oxford. Met Robert Hewison and wrote and performed first comedy material with him as cabaret at Oxford University Psychology Society C...
Wrote and performed material in Hang Down Your Head and Die, university production which transferred to Comedy Theatre, London. Appeared with Terry Jones and others in the Oxford Revue at Edinburgh Festival. Played McCann in ETC (Experimental Theatre Club) production of Pinter’s The Birthday Party. Read a bit of History.
Wrote, appeared in and directed The Oxford Line, university revue at Edinburgh Festival. 2nd Class Modern History Degree. Left Oxford, collaborated with Terry Jones on his theatrical documentary, The Love Show. Employed as co-compere of Now, a TV pop show produced in Bristol for TWW.
April: Married Helen Gibbins, a farmer’s daughter. Wrote with Terry Jones for various TV shows – Ken Dodd Show, Billy Cotton Bandshow, The Illustrated Weekly Hudd, and was in the team of writers which won the Golden Rose of Montreux for BBC with The Frost Report(John Cleese was in the cast).
Wrote for Frost Reports, Frost Programme. Wrote, appeared in and helped script-edit A Series of Birds (with John Bird for BBC Television). Wrote and appeared in short films for Twice a Fortnight, BBC Television. Wrote pantomime Aladdin for Palace Theatre, Watford. Teamed up with Eric Idle and Terry Jones to write and perform Do Not Adjust Your Set,...
Wrote for Marty Feldman (two BBC Television series). Wrote Beauty and The Beast pantomime for Watford Palace Theatre. Appeared with two Ronnies in Frost on Sunday. Appeared in special TV show, How To Irritate People, written by and starring Graham Chapman and John Cleese. Wrote and performed second series of Do Not Adjust Your Set. Wrote and perfor...
Joined up with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Terry Jones for the first series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, broadcast on BBC Television.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus – the second series, broadcast on BBC Television. And Now For Something Completely Different(first Python movie).
Pythons in Deutschland, 45-minute TV film set in Munich. All Pythons spoke German, fairly badly. Python won Silver Rose of Montreux Award. Monty Python’s Big Red Bookpublished.
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure is the book that Michael Palin wrote to accompany the BBC TV program Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure. This book, like the other books that Michael Palin wrote following each of his seven trips for the BBC, consists both of his text and of many photographs to illustrate the trip.
- Michael Palin
- 1999
Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin steps into the larger-than-life world of Ernest Hemingway in a two-part series airing Wednesday, May 3 and Wednesday, May 10, 2000 from 9 to 11 p.m....
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure is a 1999 BBC television documentary presented by Michael Palin. It records Palin's travels as he visited many sites where Ernest Hemingway had been. The sites include Spain, Chicago, Paris, Italy, Africa, Key West, Cuba, and Idaho.
