Acting

Eric Idle

Career: Active from 1967 to 2018, busiest in 2006 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 30
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Monty Python's Flying Circus
92/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 57 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Eric Idle Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.7, average 5.4
Melancholy
2.1, average 4.7
Psychological
3.0, average 5.5
Tension
3.7, average 6.0

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Movies and TV shows

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

as The Impressive Clergyman

2010s

8 titles · average score 63

as Dirk McQuickley (archive footage)

Writer

as Salubrious Gat (voice)

Original Story

Writer, Director

Songs

as The Piano

Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)

as Baritonish / Stan / Loretta / Bob Dylan / Ben

2000s

21 titles · average score 51

as Merlin (voice)

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Terry Gilliam's Personal Best

as Various Characters

as Drosselmeier (voice)

as Narrator

Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles

as Melvin / Dirk McQuickly / Lady Beth Mouse-Peddler

as Celebrity

Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure

as English Victim

as Coffin Ed

as Mr. Bix

TV show · as Pluto Angel (voice)

as Waddlesworth (voice)

TV show · as Guzelian (voice)

1990s

22 titles · average score 53

The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue

as Evil Martin (voice)

as Prospector

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

as Alan Smithee

as Devon (voice)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie

as Slyly (voice)

as Rat

as Dibs

as Tommy Butterfly Rainbow Peace Patel

TV show · as Chuck (voice)

as Wendel

as King Raff

as Brian Hope

1980s

17 titles · average score 69

TV show · as Jean Passepartout

TV show · as Declan Desmond (voice)

Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python

Writer

TV show · as Grant Pritchard

as Desmond / Berthold

as The Bike Rider

as Various Roles

as Commander Clement

TV show · as The Pied Piper / Robert Browning / Narrator (voice)

as Various Roles

as Narrator

as Reporter

1970s

13 titles · average score 79

as Mr. Cheeky / Stan 'Loretta' / Harry the Haggler / Culprit Woman / Warris / Intensely Dull Youth / Jailer's Assistant / Otto / Lead Singer Crucifee

as Dirk McQuickly/The Narrator/S.J. Krammerhead

as Dirk McQuickly (dialogue voice)

TV show · as Derek DeWoods

TV show · as Self (uncredited) / Terry Halsey (uncredited)

as Dead Collector / Peasant 1 / Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot / First Swamp Castle Guard / Concorde / Roger the Shrubber / Brother Maynard

TV show · as Various Characters

as Pie Face 1

TV show · as Various Characters

as Sokrates

And Now for Something Completely Different

as Prosecutor / Marriage Counselor / Arthur Nudge / Self-defence student #4 (interested in pointed sticks) / 'Hell's Grannies' analyst / Arthur Wilson / Arthur Wilson Two / Nightclub Emcee / Linkman / First General / Restaurant Manager / Lingerie Shop Owner / Accountant #1 (falling past the window) / Fairy Godmother / Rita Fairbanks / Simon Zinc Trumpet Harris / Mountie / Lady With Cookbook