Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.

107 mins
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.

Terry Gilliam

Various Roles

Graham Chapman

Various Roles

John Cleese

Various Roles

Eric Idle

Various Roles

Terry Jones

Various Roles

Michael Palin

Various Roles

Carol Cleveland

Various Roles

Patricia Quinn

Mrs. Williams

Judy Loe

Nurse #1

Andrew Bicknell

(Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Mark Holmes

Severed head

Angela Mann

Second guest's wife

Sydney Arnold

Pirate Captain (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Guy Bertrand

Chief Executive (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Matt Frewer

Cornered Executive who Jumps (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Michael Caine

British Soldier (uncredited) (segment "Fighting Each Other")

Jane Leeves

Dancer (uncredited)

Graham Chapman

Screenplay

Terry Jones

Director

Harry Lange

Production Design

Terry Gilliam

Screenplay

Michael Palin

Screenplay

Terry Jones

Screenplay

John Du Prez

Original Music Composer

Eric Idle

Screenplay

John Cleese

Screenplay

Peter Hannan

Director of Photography

Roger Pratt

Director of Photography

Sharon Cartwright

Set Decoration

James Acheson

Costume Design

Mary Hillman

Makeup Department Head

David Wimbury

Production Manager

Richard Dawking

Art Direction

John Beard

Art Direction

Simon Wakefield

Set Decoration

Arlene Phillips

Choreographer

David Appleby

Still Photographer

Callum McDougall

Third Assistant Director

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