Actor: Michael Palin

Michael Palin won a BAFTA for A Fish Called Wanda, playing a stammering assassin, a performance that drew complaints and which he defended by pointing out his own father stammered severely.

Brazil and Time Bandits gave him work with Terry Gilliam, and he wrote the screenplay for The Missionary. His travel documentaries for the BBC have run for more than thirty years and are the work most British audiences now know him for.