Graham Chapman

Person · Open Library

Born

1941

Died

1989

Works

42

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Film & TV

Acting · Leicester, Leicestershire, England

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…

Known for

• Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated — Self (archive footage)(uncredited)2021
• Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails — Self (archive footage)2019
• Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) — Self (archive footage)2014
• A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman — Self (voice)2012
• Anatomy of a Liar — Self2012
• Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) — Self (archive footage)2009
• Life Of Brian Screenplay — Wise Man #2, Brian Cohen, Biggus Dickus2008
• Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus — Self (archive footage)2008
• Hitler: The Comedy Years — Joachim von Ribbentrop (archive footage) (uncredited)2007
• The Secret Life of Brian — Self / Brian (archive footage) (uncredited)2007

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1941

Active to

1989

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

625

Total plays

4,582

Graham Chapman was born on January 8, 1941 in Leicester, England while a Germain air raid was in progress. Graham's father was a chief police inspector and probably inspired the constables Graham often portrayed later in comedy sketches. Graham studied medicine in college and earned an M.D., but he practiced medicine for only a few years. At Cambridge, he took part in a series of comedy revues and shortly after completing his medical studies at St. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Graham+Chap

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,790x

2. Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R

   · 2009 · cited 12,783x

3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,205x

4. Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

   · 2021 · cited 9,950x

5. ASSESSMENT OF COMA AND IMPAIRED CONSCIOUSNESS

   · 1974 · cited 9,790x

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Quotes

• “It's fear. … There's no point in it. We should just love each other, and do it in our own way. That's the only thing that's important.”
• “Once the decision had been made, once I decided to stop [drinking], it was easy—except for the … three days of unpleasantness, of—well, of having things crawl all over me and hallucinating. … One of the worst things was not being able to remember if I'd slept or not, whether I was dreaming, or whether I was awake. I didn't know.”
• “[My parents] came to grips with the drinking … much more easily, I think, than [with my sexuality]. Yes. But, things are rather better now than in those days, of course. It was some time ago. And now, even the Church of England, I think, regards a homosexual as merely being handicapped.”
• “There was one occasion when John Cleese and myself actually felt guilty about laughing at something we were writing, because it was in incredibly bad taste. So bad was the taste that we just couldn't help laughing at it. It concerned a gentleman walking into … an undertaker's premises with his dead mother in a sack. And from there it got worse.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1941-01-08 ) 8 January 1941, Leicester , England

Died

4 October 1989 (1989-10-04) (aged 48), Maidstone, Kent , England

Other name

Gray Chapman

Alma mater

Emmanuel College, Cambridge , St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College

Occupations

Actor comedian writer

Years active

1960–1989

Known for

One of six members of Monty Python

Partner

David Sherlock (1966–1989)

Children

1 (adopted)

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