After Dinner Speakers: Terry Gilliam, Harry Carpenter, Michael J Fox

Terry was first known for the bizarre animation sequences in Monty Python's Flying Circus using cutout pictures and photographs.Gilliam had met Cleese when the latter toured the United States in another comedy troupe; finding that Gilliam had moved to England to work as a cartoonist, Cleese recruited him to do the bizarre cutout animation for the show. Heroes in his films often dream of a woman who they have not yet met, but will meet during the course of the film. In the dream, the woman's face is obscured. Often features people/animals bursting through walls or ceilings Often begins and ends his films with the same shot. He started to direct "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" in 2001 (in Spain) with Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis and Jean Rochefort but the shooting was unfortunately stopped a couple of days after it started because of Jean Rochefort's health problems (he couldn't ride a horse any more). But Terry Gilliam said that he won't give up and that he will try again later because he dreams about making this movie! During the filming of Brazil (1985) he became so stressed that he temporarily lost the use of his legs, which only returned to normal several weeks later. Has taken British citizenship. In 1977, Gilliam directed his first solo feature, the Middle Ages fantasy Jabberwocky he then helmed the sleeper hit Time Bandits (1981) and wrangled with studio heads over his futuristic satire Brazil (1985; which earned him an Oscar nomination for co-writing the screenplay). His spectacular, big-budget The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) fizzled, but Gilliam came back with a 1991 surprise hit, The Fisher King a more optimistic (and for Gilliam, conventional) project starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges. Idle acted in and cowrote a funny produced-for-TV Beatles sendup,All You Need Is Cash (1978, akaThe Rutles and has acted in numerous comedies, including National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985, as a Brit with a truly stiff upper lip), Gilliam's Baron Munchausen the minor hit Nuns on the Run (1990), and the terrible Mom and Dad Save the World (1992). He also cowrote and executive produced Splitting Heirs (1993.