Neil Innes
Biography
Neil Innes was an English musician, comedian and writer who began playing music while studying fine art at Goldsmiths College. He joined the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band during those years and helped shape its comedy rock sound, writing I'm the Urban Spaceman, which brought him an Ivor Novello Award in 1968, and Death Cab for Cutie, heard in the Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour (1967). He became a regular collaborator with Monty Python, sometimes described as the seventh Python, contributing songs to Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and taking small parts in Jabberwocky (1977) and Life of Brian (1979). With Eric Idle he created the Rutles, a Beatles parody for which he wrote the songs, seen in All You Need Is Cash (1978). He also made the BBC series The Innes Book of Records and wrote and voiced the children's cartoon The Raggy Dolls.
75years old at death
- Born Danbury
- Died Montcuq-en-Quercy-Blanc
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Neil James Innes (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 43 years1967 to 2010
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A first
Innes was one of only two people outside the Pythons to receive a writing credit on the TV series, alongside Douglas Adams.
First role
Innes was still attending Goldsmiths when he became a member of a semi-professional college band. It started out as the Bonzo Dog Dada Band and was renamed the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
Behind the camera
Innes wrote and voiced The Raggy Dolls, a 1980s children's cartoon about rejected toys from a factory. The 65 episodes for Yorkshire Television featured characters including Sad Sack, Hi-Fi, Lucy, Dotty, Back-to-Front, Princess and Claude.
Behind the camera
Innes's 1973 song "How Sweet to Be an Idiot" was directly lifted by Oasis for their 1994 song "Whatever", leading his music publisher to demand a co-writing credit.
Neil Innes movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail1975 Adventure, Comedy, Fantasyas First Monk / Singing Minstrel / Page Crushed by the Rabbit / Peasant #4
IMDb rating 8.1608K votes
Most often with
Terry Jones directed two of these films, Terry Gilliam two. Michael Palin appears in six of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Michael Palin's page
Eric Idle's page
Terry Gilliam's page
Terry Jones's page
Carol Cleveland's page
John Cleese's page
Also three films together1 more actor
- Graham ChapmanMonty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982), Life of Brian (1979) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.