Terry Gilliam

Terence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is a film director and a member of the Monty Python comedy group. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he now lives in England and has dual American/British citizenship.

Animation

Terry Gilliam started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist; one of his early photographic strips for Harvey Kurtzman's Help! featured John Cleese. Moving to England, he animated features for Do Not Adjust Your Set and then joined Monty Python's Flying Circus at its formation, as the only non-British member. He was the principal artist-animator of the surreal cartoons which frequently linked the show's sketches together, and defined the group's visual language in other mediums. He also appeared in several sketches and played side parts in the films.

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Photographic strips - Harvey Kurtzman - Help! - John Cleese - Do Not Adjust Your Set - Monty Python's Flying Circus - Surreal

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Gilliam's Monty Python animations have a distinctive style. He mixed his own art, characterized by soft gradients and odd bulbous shapes, with backgrounds and moving cutouts from antique photographs, mostly from the Victorian era. The style has been mimicked repeatedly throughout the years: in the children's television cartoon Angela Anaconda, a series of television commercials for Guinness Beer, the Nickelodeon series You Can't Do That On Television, the Jibjab political cartoons, and the television history series Terry Jones' Medieval Lives.

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Antique - Photograph - Victorian era - Cartoon - Angela Anaconda - Guinness - Beer - Nickelodeon - You Can't Do That On Television - Jibjab - Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

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