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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

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Time Bandits
The adventures of Baron Munchausen, the novel
Brazil
The Pythons
Gilliamesque
Gilliam on Gilliam
The adventures of Baron Munchausen
Brazil
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
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

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Time Bandits
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
Hemingway's chair
Diaries 1969-1979
The Perfect Journey? (Guardian Piccadilly Competitio)
Ripping yarns
The mirrorstone
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
The mirrorstone
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

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Stark
Time and Time Again
Popcorn
Gridlock
This other Eden
High society
Chart Throb
Inconceivable
Blast from the past
Gasping
Dead Famous
Meltdown
Black-Adder
Silly cow
Past Mortem
The First Casualty
Blind faith
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

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Making History (Airport Ed)
Welcome to Biscuit Land
The Ickabog
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
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)
The Art of Missing Link
Mensonges mensonges
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
Ellis Weiner
Ellis Weiner (born 1951)

comedian

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Howard the Duck
The joy of worry
Drop dead, my lovely
Decade of the year
The big boat to bye-bye
Yiddish with Dick and Jane
Letters from Cicely
How to profit from the coming Rapture
Santa lives!
Cat-echisms
The big Jewish book for Jews
National Lampoon's Doon
Yiddish with George and Laura
The Northern Exposure Cookbook
Los mellizos Templeton tienen una idea
The Templeton twins have an idea
How to raise a Jewish dog
The Great Muppet Caper!
Santa Lives!
The Joy of Worry Notecards
Arffirmations
Northern Exposure
The Templeton twins make a scene
The Northern exposure cookbook
Ausgerechnet Alaska
Oy! Do this, not that!
The Dream team
Templeton twins make a scene
Los mellizos Templeton tienen una idea
Cat-echisms
The Templeton twins have an idea
Northern Exposure - Header
Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson (born 1958)

actor, comedian, singer, television actor

  • University of East Anglia, Sevenoaks School

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Doctor Who
Doctor Who
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
The fallen
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
Fighting Fantasy
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
Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette (born 1955)

radio personality, actor, circus performer, jongleur, television actor, podcaster, comedian, musician, magician, illusionist, film actor, film director

  • Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College

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In Darkness, Delight
Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic
God, No!
Sock
Penn & Teller's cruel tricks for dear friends
Penn and Teller's How to Play With Your Food
How to cheat your friends at poker
Every Day Is An Atheist Holiday More Magical Tales From The Author Of God No
How to Play with Your Food
Presto!
Random
Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!
How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker
Spider-Man/Deadpool Vol. 2
Presto! How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
My Name is James Randi and Today I Die
George Takei
George Takei (born 1937)

comedian, singer, voice actor, blogger, film actor, television actor, actor, director, opinion journalist

  • University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

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Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe
To the stars
To the stars
To the Stars Autobiography George Takei
They Called Us Enemy
Mirror friend, mirror foe
Éramos el enemigo
To the stars
Oh Myyy! (There Goes The Internet)
My Lost Freedom
They Called Us Enemy
Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 3, Episodes 6 & 7
Lions and Tigers and Bears
My Lost Freedom 9-Copy Floor Display and Authorless Storytime Kit
To the Stars
Oh myyy!
Nos Llamaron Enemigo (They Called Us Enemy Spanish Edition)
To the Stars the Autobiography of Star Trek's Mr. Sulu