Description:
Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In the political turmoil in the 60's, Gilliam feared he would become a terrorist and decided to leave the USA. He moved to England and landed a job on the children's television show Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967) as an animator. There he met meet his future collaborators in Monty Python: Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin. In 2006 he renounced his American citizenship.
Birthday
November 22, 1940
Born In
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Alternative names
Montypython Flyingcircus
, Terry Spam Sausage Spam Egg Gilliam
, Terry Terry Whicker Alan Gilliam
, Terry Whicker Gilliam
, Terry [Egg on Face] Gilliam
, Terry C. Gilliamberg
, Monty Python
, Marty Rigelli
, The Usual Lot
Height
175 cm
Parents
Beatriz Vance
Trivia
As a result of renouncing his American citizenship, he is only permitted to spend 29 days a year in the United States, considerably less than the average U.K. Citizen.
Quotes
There's a side of me that always fell for manic things, frenzied,
cartoony performances. I always liked sideshows, freakshows. Jerry
Lewis was a freakshow...Absolutely grotesque, awful, tasteless. I like
things to be tasteless.
Nickname
Captain Chaos
Trademarks
Was first known for the bizarre animation sequences in Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) using cutout pictures and photographs.
