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Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam (born 1940)

film director, comedian, animator, film actor, actor, television actor, film producer, comics artist, director

  • Occidental College
The adventures of Baron Munchausen, the novel
The Pythons
Gilliamesque
Gilliam on Gilliam
The adventures of Baron Munchausen
Brazil
Time Bandits
Animations of mortality
Gilliamesque
Terry Gilliam
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons
Not the screenplay to Fear & loathing in Las Vegas
Dark knights and holy fools
Gilliam on Gilliam (Directors on Directors)
The adventures of Baron Munchausen
A Pocketful of Python
Gilliamesk
Gilliamismos
Dreams and Nightmares
Jabberwocky
The very best of Monty Python
Gilliamesque : A Pre-Posthumous Memoir : TG's Bio Autography : A Singular Person's First First Person Singular Palin-Dromic Biograph
The cocktail people
John Howe's Ultimate Fantasy Art Academy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil
Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Songbook
Michael Palin
Michael Palin (born 1943)

actor, comedian, diarist, singer, film actor, television presenter, television actor

  • University of Oxford, Shrewsbury School
The mirrorstone
The mirrorstone
Hemingway's chair
Sahara
Michael Palin's Hemingway adventure
Diaries 1969-1979
Pole to pole with Michael Palin
Himalaya
Full Circle
New Europe
Limericks
Around the World in Eighty Days
Brazil
Happy Holidays
More ripping yarns
Travelling to work
Time Bandits
Hemingway's chair
Diaries 1969-1979
The Perfect Journey? (Guardian Piccadilly Competitio)
Ripping yarns
North Korea Journal
The truth
The Weekend
The Perfect Journey?
Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday
Halfway To Hollywood Diaries 1980 To 1988
Himalaya
Erebus
The missionary
The truth
Halfway To Hollywood Diaries 19801988
The truth
Sackful of Limericks
The Complete Ripping Yarns
Michael Palin's Travel Compendium
The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons
Monty Python at work
The Brand new Monty Python papperbok [sic]
Oxtravels Meetings With Remarkable Travel Writers
New Europe
Michael Palin
Cyril and the House of Commons
The truth
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth
Discovering Kings Cross A Popup Book
Bert Feggs Nasty Book for Boys and Girls
Halfway to Hollywood
Cyril and the dinner party
A Pocketful of Python
Halfway to Hollywood
Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979
Time bandits
Michael Palin
Himalaya
Pole to Pole
The secret policeman's other ball
Halfway to Hollywood (Reissue) Vol. 2
Small Harry and the Toothache Pills (Magnet)
Cyril and the House of Commons
Golden Age of Railway Posters
Brazil
Travelling to Work
Great Railways Journey's of the World
Time bandits
Cyril and the House of Commons
Travelling to work
Jack and the Beanstalk (We All Have Tales S.)
Hemingway's Chair
Python Years
The very best of Monty Python
Mirā sutōn fushigina kagami
Diaries 1969-1979
New Europe
Time for a change
Diaries 1999-2010
Small Harry and the Toothache Pills
Complete Michael Palin Diaries
Around the World in Eighty Days
Van pool tot pool
Het nieuwe Europa van Michael Palin
Dr. Fegg's Encyclopeadia of All World Knowledge
D'un pôle à l'autre
De stoel van Hemingway
New Europe
Pole to Pole
Der Spiegelstein
Erebus
Ben Elton
Ben Elton (born 1959)

actor, comedian, playwright, lyricist, stand-up comedian, film actor, film director, stage actor, television actor, director, film producer

  • University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester
Blind faith
Popcorn
Gridlock
This other Eden
High society
Chart Throb
Inconceivable
Blast from the past
Gasping
Dead Famous
Stark
Meltdown
Black-Adder
Silly cow
Past Mortem
Time and Time Again
The First Casualty
The Gospel According to Ben Elton
"Blackadder"
The Man from Auntie (Canned Laughter)
Very Live
Ben Elton
Ben Elton Omnibus
Blackadder Goes Forth
Ben Elton Very Live Tour De For
Ben Elton Collection
Ben Elton Live
Blackadder the Third
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
The Blackadder Collection
Two Brothers / Dva brata
Blackadder the Third
Blackadder II
We Will Rock You
The Man from Auntie
Motormouth and Motorvation
Plays
Seitensprünge
Identity Crisis
Ben Elton Live
Bachelor Boys
Hartstikke beroemd
Filth!
Devine qui vient mourir ce soir?
Ben Elton Plays
Devine qui vient mourir ce soir ?
Un Nuevo Eden
Boem!
Kalt erwischt
Ben for Ten a d/Bx24 2 For 10
Ben Elton Mixed X36 D/B
Blast from the Past
Very Live, Tour De Force 1993
Doris Darling
Upstart Crow
Maybe Baby
Blackadder Goes Forth
Elton Plays : 1
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry (born 1957)

actor, comedian, television presenter, autobiographer, director, television actor, stage actor, film actor, journalist, film director, improviser, performing artist, narrator

  • University of Cambridge, Uppingham School
The Ickabog
The Art of Missing Link
More About Paddington CD
Die allerneueste klassische Sau
Moab Is My Washpot
Stephen Fry In America
The Fry Chronicles
The library book
Mythos
Revenge
Planet Word
Stephen Fry's imcomplete and utter history of classical music
Stars' Tennis Balls, The
Mrs Frys Diary
Paddington and the Tutti Frutti Rainbow
Paddington at the Fair
Troy
A bit more Fry and Laurie
Hippopotamus, The
Fry and Laurie bit no. 4
The liar
Making History (Airport Ed)
More fool me
Art of Faith
Frys English Delight
Geschichte Machen
Heroes
The Ode Less Travelled CD
The History Of The World Through Twitter
Liar
Paperweight
QI
Gudernes kastebold
Fry's English Delight
Mental and behavioural state examination
General Ignorance
Dérapages incontrôlables
Tim to the Rescue
Girl from Arles
Columbus War Ein Englander
Boy Called Christmas
Der Sterne Tennisbälle
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (Canned Laughter)
Seeing Things
Paddington Goes for Gold (Read Aloud by Stephen Fry)
Mensonges mensonges
Welcome to Biscuit Land
Fry's Ties
Amassed hysteria!
Haciendo Historia
Rescuing the Spectacled Bear
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage
Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages
Political Correctness Gone Mad?
The Honest Ulsterman No 83
L'île du Dr Malo
Wirtschaft. Englisch.
Loose Canon
What Was Shakespeare Really Like?
Fry's English Delight
Untitled Novel Two
Tim All Alone
Langenscheidts Lilliput Berlinerisch.
Buller's Birds of New Zealand
El Mentiroso
Untitled Novel 1 (Aus/Nz)
Some Limericks
Héroes
La corrección política
Untitled Novel Two
Party Animals
Persephone : Book 7- Early Myths
English Heritage Guide to London's Blue Plaques
Standee
The Magic Way to Learn Your Tables
Tim's Friend Towser
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
Cancelled Stephen Fry
How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage
Search for Spectacled Bear Blad
X18 Mixed Stephen Fry Rei Pack
Darling, fesselst du schon mal die Kinder?
Three bits of Fry and Laurie
3 Bits of Fry and Laurie
L'Hippopotame (French Edition)
Me and my girl
L'hippopotame
Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson (born 1958)

actor, comedian, singer, television actor

  • University of East Anglia, Sevenoaks School
Fighting Fantasy
SilverFin (Young Bond #1)
Hurricane gold (Young Bond #4)
Blood Fever (Young Bond #2)
The Enemy (The Enemy #1)
Double Or Die (Young Bond #3)
King of the Ants
The Sacrifice
The Fear (The Enemy #3)
Happy now
Getting rid of Mister Kitchen
Doctor Who
The fallen
Doctor Who
The end
The Young Bond Dossier Danger Society
The dead
The Fast Show book
The Hunted
Monstroso
The Fear Charlie Higson
Full whack
Danger Society The Young Bond Dossier
By Royal Command (Young James Bond #5)
The hunted
"Fast Show"
A Morte é Contagiosa
Penguin Readers Level 1
Silverfin
Complete Short Stories, 1944 -1953
The Fear
Hunted
Monstroso
Fear
Fear, The: The Enemy, Book 3
Fear (the Enemy Book 3)
Worst. Holiday. Ever
Olum
It Gets Worse
Poker fatal
DOUBLE OR DIE
Fear
Worst. Holiday. Ever
Hunted (the Enemy Book 6)
Dusman
Kanli Humma - Genc Bond 2. Kitap
Enemy Series, Books 1-3
Enemy - 3-Book Paperback Boxed Set
Fear
James Bond - GoldenBoy (German Edition)
Enemy Dumpbin
Doctor Who : the Beast of Babylon
Korku
On His Majestys Secret Service
The Hunted
Enemy Book Series Charlie Higson Collection 7 Books Set
Young Bond Silver Fin A2 Poster
Ennemis
Gumusyuzgec - Genc Bond 1. Kitap
Enemy Series, Books 4-6
Fighting Fantasy
Penguin Readers Level 1
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Freddy and the Pig
James Bond
Oyna Ya Da Ol - Genc Bond 3. Kitap -
James Bond
Freddy and the pig
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

comedian, journalist, stage actor, film actor, poet, actor, musician, television actor, playwright

William McGonagall, the truth at last
William McGonagall
The Looney
Mussolini
Puckoon
Milligan's War
Adolf Hitler
Goblins
The Bible
The Essential Spike Milligan
Depression and How to Survive It
Monty, His Part in My Victory
Silly Verse for Kids
Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall
The book of the Goons
The Lost Goon Shows
Frankenstein
The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Show scripts
"Rommel?"-"Gunner who?"
Dr. Who
Box 18
Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan
The Q Annual
Milligan's ark
Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
The Spike Milligan letters
Goodbye soldier
Badjelly the witch
Bible, the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan, a celebration
The Murphy
Where have all the bullets gone?
Unspun socks froma chicken's laundry
Black Beauty
Milligans Meaning of Life
Startling Verse for All the Family
Spike Milligan
Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan
More Goon cartoons
A dustbin of Milligan
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
It Ends With Magic
Milligans Meaning of Life
Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Goodbye Soldier (War Biography)
The Magical World of Milligan
Hidden Words
Scunthorpe revisited, added articles and instant relatives
D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane according to Spike Milligan
That's Amazing
Classic Adventures
More Spike Milligan letters
Open Heart University
A potboiling dustbin full of bits
The Goon Show Classics
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan
Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan
Indefinite articles
William McGonagall meets George Gershwin
Peace Work
Condensed animals
Dip the puppy , a fairy story ; with, The terrible monster jelly
The family album
The bald twit lion
A mad medley of Milligan
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Small dreams of a scorpion
More Goon Show scripts
The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (Poetry)
Sir Nobonk and the terrible, awful, dreadful, naughty, nasty dragon
Rommel? Gunner Who? ; Monty
Two Tales of Wonder
The Goon Show Classics Volume 21 "The Missing Battleship"
A book of bits or a bit of a book
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Spike Milligan at the Beeb
The 101 best and only limericks of Spike Milligan
Monty
Badjelly the witch
Dip the puppy
The Lost "Goon" Shows
Spike Milligan'sfurther transports of delight
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Spike Milligan's transports of delight
The little pot boiler
The Goon Show and More Guests, Vol. 18
There's a lot of it about!
The Compulsive Spike Milligan
Gunner Milligan, 954024
The Milligan book of records
The bedside Milligan
Fleas, Knees and Hidden Elephants
The mirror running
The Goon cartoons
A book of bits
Floored masterpieces with worse verse
Values
Spike's Poems
The mini Milligan collection
Lady Chatterley According to Spike Milligan
Silly verse for kids and animals
The great McGonagall scrap book
Spike Milligan's The melting pot
Black Beauty according to Spike Milligan
Poems
Spike Milligan Cut-Out
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Ifonly I were bald
The hound of the hound of Baskervilles according to Spike Milligan
Get in the Q annual
Puckoon. Eine irische Dorfgeschichte
Chill air
Milligan's ark
The bedsitting room
Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan (Penguin Modern Authors)
Wolf Tales: Wolves, Witches & Giants
World of Beachcomber (Comedy Club S.)
There's lot of it about!
M25
A book of bits, or
"Rommel
Milligan's War and Peace Memoirs
Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan
Lady Chatterley's lover according to Spike Milligan
Theb edsitting room
Milligan Preserved
D.H.Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane
A Book of Milliganimals
Rommel? Gunner Who? (Abridged - 2 Audio Cassettes)
For Lucy Gates
Esquimau
The Bible According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Again
He's Innocent of Watergate or Dick's Last Stand
Live at Cambridge University (Comedy Club S.)
Mussolini, his part in my downfall
In a jam
Twelve poems that made December colder
Monty His Part in My Victory and Rommel? Gunner Who?
The war memoirs
Monty (War Biography)
Sunday - midnight
The Goon Show Compendium
The bedside Milligan, or, Read yourself to insomnia
Tombstone Humour
A dustbin of Millgan
The Best of Milligan's Wake (Comedy Club S.)
The Bedside Milligan or Read Your Way to Insomnia
Teeth
My mother
Milligan's Meaning of Life
The dancer
Scunthorpe Revisited
Rommel?  Gunner Who?
Help I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Tube
Open Heart University
Giant Tales
The Completely Essential Spike Milligan
Box 18:The Unpublished Spike Milligan
A book of bits or a bit of a book
A Collection of Spikes
Help, I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Spike Milligan's Peace
Vivat Milligna
Letters
Poems for Toni Savage
Witch Tales
The Goon Shows
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais (born 1961)

actor, musician, comedian, radio personality, voice actor, film director, film actor, stand-up comedian, television presenter, film producer, television director, television actor, television producer

  • University College London
Flanimals
Flanimals of the Deep
More Flanimals
Extras
The world of Karl Pilkington
Office (Script Series, vol. 2)
The Office - The Scripts
Flanimals Popup
Flanimals pop-up
The Office
More Flanimals
Invention of Lying, The
Extras - The Complete First Season
The Ricky Gervais Guide To
Flanimales
The office
Extras - the Illustrated Scripts
Office, the Scripts
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)

actor, film director, television presenter, playwright, film producer, autobiographer, comedian, television actor

  • Westminster School
Photo finish
The Loser
Great humorous stories
The Old Man and Mr. Smith
Romanoff and Juliet
The love of four colonels
Life is an operetta and other short stories
The unknown soldier and his wife
Krumnagel
Ustinov in Russia
Monsieur René
Ustinov still at large
Halfway up the tree
Photo finish
The disinformer
Quotable Ustinov
Monsieur Rene
The frontiers of the sea
Five plays
Add a dash of pity and other short stories
My Russia
Beethoven's tenth
Add a Dash of Pity
Achtung! Vorurteile
We were only human
Die endlose Reise
Ustinov at Eighty
God & The State Railways
Die Reise geht weiter. Neue Geschichten von unterwegs
The Banbury nose
Monsieur Rene
Karneval der Tiere / Des Esels Schatten
Ustinov's diplomats
Der alte Mann und Mr. Smith
Achtung! Vorurteile
Halb auf dem Baum und andere Komödien
The Millennium Generation
Monsieur Rene
The frontiers of the sea: short stories
Ich und Ich. Jubiläumsausgabe
Dear Me CD
Rectorial address delivered at an academic ceremony in the Caird Hall, Dundee, on 17th October 1968
Beyond
Rectorial address delivered in the University [of Dundee] 3rd November 1972
The moment of truth
The Comedy Collection
House of regrets
The wit of Peter Ustinov
A mitad de camino
Ustinov
Photo finish, an adventure in biography in three acts
Die Heirat und andere Komödien
Le vieil homme et M. Smith
Love of Four Colonels
Peter Ustinovs geflügelte Worte
Der Intrigant. Zwei Novellen
Gott und die Staatlichen Eisenbahnen
Ich und Ich
Das UNICEF- Weihnachtsgeschichtenbuch
Was ich von der Liebe weiß. Großdruck. Beflügelte Weisheiten
The Loser
Neues aus der alten Welt
Romanoff and Juliet
The frontiers of the sea
Romanof ṿe-Yulyah
Viejo y Mister Smith, El
Ustinovs kleines Welttheater. Staatsmänner, Stars und andere Kollegen
Die endlose Reise
The Love of Four Colonels. A Play in Two Acts.
Sof ha-meruts
Photo Finish
Le Viel homme et monsieur Smith
The many voices of Peter Ustinov. Conversation with Cliff Michelmore
Orchestra
The unknown soldier and his wife
How to be terribly, terribly funny
Romanoff and Juliet
Der Verlierer
Le désinformateur
Still at Large
Plays about people. [The tragedy of good intentions : Blow your own trumpet
Quotable Ustinov
Krumnagel
Add a Dash of Pity
The love of four colonels, a play in two acts
The loser, a novel
Romanoff and Juliet..a Comedy in Three Acts
Über das Leben und andere Kleinigkeiten
THE BANBURY NOSE A Play in Four Acts.
We were only human
Loser
Happiness
Frontiers of the Sea by Peter Ustinov (1966-11-06)
James Thurber
Der Mann, der es leicht nahm. Erzählungen
The Methuen Book of Theatre Verse
Plays about people
Dear Me
C. S. S. Dear Me
Ustinov at Large
The Laughter Omnibus
Five Plays
Dear Me
Beyond, a play in one act
Halfway up the tree
Old Man and Mr. Smith
Für jedes Kind