Terry Gilliam - Biography

Terry Gilliam Director, screenwriter and producer

Born in 1940 in Minneapolis, Terry Gilliam first came to recognition in 1969 as the only American member of the wildly popular television show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, for which he crafted the animated sequences.

In 1975, he co-directed, with Terry Jones, his first feature, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, which was soon followed by his solo directorial debut “Jabberwocky” (1977). His subsequent films include “Time Bandits” (1981), “Brazil” (1985), starring Jonathan Pryce and Robert De Niro, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, a Los Angeles Film Critics award for Best Film and widespread critical praise, “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (1988), a return to historical fantasy and “The Fisher King” (1991), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director and the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Returning to the director’s chair with the star-studded science fiction epic “Twelve Monkeys” (1995), notably starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, he then went on to make “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1998), an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. In 2000, Gilliam started production on his lifelong dream, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”. Unfortunately, severe problems led to the production being shut down within the first week of m filming – against his wishes.

In 2005, Gilliam released “The Brothers Grimm”, starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, followed, a year later, by “Tideland” starring Jeff Bridges, Jodelle Ferland and Janet McTeer. Last year, he wrote, produced and directed “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”, starring Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer and Tom Waits.

Filmography

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SELECTIVE FILMOGRAPHY
Director & screenwriter

2009 THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (L’imaginarium du Docteur Parnassus)
2005 TIDELAND
1998 FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (Las Vegas Parano)
1988 THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Les aventures du Baron de Munchausen)
1985 BRAZIL
1981 TIME BANDITS (Bandits, bandits)
1977 JABBERWOCKY
1975 MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Monty Python, sacré graal)