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Graham Chapman
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Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 4 October

1989) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of
the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty
Python. He played authority figures such as the Colonel
and the lead role in two Python films, Holy Grail and Life
of Brian.
Chapman was born in Leicester and was raised in Melton
Mowbray. He enjoyed science, acting and comedy, and
after graduating from Emmanuel College, Cambridge and
St Bartholomew's Medical College, he turned down a
career as a doctor to be a comedian. Chapman established
a writing partnership with John Cleese, which reached its
critical peak with Monty Python during the 1970s.
Chapman left Britain for Los Angeles in the late 1970s,
attempting to be a success on American television,
speaking on the college circuit and producing the pirate
film Yellowbeard, before returning to Britain in the early
1980s.
Chapman was openly homosexual and a strong supporter
of gay rights, and was in a relationship with David
Sherlock for most of his adult life. He suffered from
alcoholism during his time at Cambridge and the early
Python years, quitting shortly before working on Life of
Brian. Chapman died of tonsil and spinal cancer on 4
October 1989, on the eve of Monty Python's 20th
anniversary, and his life and legacy were commemorated
at a private memorial service at St Bartholomew's with the
other Pythons.

Contents

Graham Chapman

Born

Graham Arthur Chapman

8 January 1941
Leicester, England

Died

4 October 1989 (aged 48)

Maidstone, Kent, England

Cause of death Tonsil and spinal cancer

Other names

Gray Chapman

Alma mater

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

St Bartholomew's Medical College

Occupation

Comedian writer actor

Years active

19601989

Notable work

Monty Python

Partner(s)

David Sherlock (19661989)

1 Early life and education

2 Career
2.1 Pre-Python career
2.2 Monty Python
2.3 Other work
2.4 Final years
3 Personal life
4 Death
4.1 Memorial service
5 Legacy
6 Filmography
7 References
8 Bibliography
9 External links

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Early life and education

Graham Arthur Chapman was born on 8 January 1941 at the Stoneygate Nursing Home, Stoneygate,
Leicester, the son of policeman Walter Chapman and Edith Towers.[1] He had an elder brother, John, who
was born in 1936.[2] One of Chapman's earliest memories was seeing the remains of Polish airmen who had
suffered an aeroplane accident near Leicester, later saying the horrific sights of this remained in his
memory.[3]
Chapman was educated at Melton Mowbray Grammar School. He showed a strong affinity for science,
sports and amateur dramatics, and was singled out for attention when a local paper reviewed his
performance of Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.[4] Graham and John Chapman were both avid
fans of radio comedy, being especially fond of The Goon Show[5] and Robert Moreton's skill of telling jokes
the wrong way round and reversing punchlines. Biographer Jim Yoakum said "the radio shows didn't
necessarily make him laugh."[6]
In 1959, Chapman began to study medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[7] He joined the Cambridge
Footlights, where he first began writing with John Cleese.[8] Following graduation, Chapman joined the
Footlights show "Cambridge Circus" and toured New Zealand, deferring his medical studies for a year.[9]
After the tour, he continued his studies at St Bartholomew's Medical College,[10] but became torn between
whether to pursue a career in medicine or acting. His brother John later said, "He wasn't ever driven to go
into medicine ... it wasn't his life's ambition."[11]

Career
Pre-Python career
Following their Footlights success, Chapman and Cleese began to write professionally for the BBC, initially
for David Frost but also for Marty Feldman. Frost had recruited Cleese, and in turn Cleese decided he
needed Chapman as a sounding board.[12] Chapman also contributed sketches to the radio series I'm Sorry,
I'll Read That Again and wrote material on his own and with Bill Oddie.[13] He wrote for The Illustrated
Weekly Hudd (starring Roy Hudd), Cilla Black, This is Petula Clark, and This Is Tom Jones.[14] Chapman,
Cleese, and Tim Brooke-Taylor later joined Feldman in the television comedy series At Last the 1948
Show.[15] It was Chapman's first significant role as a performer as well as a writer[15] and he displayed a gift
for deadpan comedy (such as in the sketch "The Minister Who Falls to Pieces") and imitating various British
dialects.[16] The series was the first to feature Chapman's sketch of wrestling with himself.[15]
Despite the show's success, Chapman was still unsure about abandoning his medical career. In between the
two series of At Last the 1948 Show he completed his studies at St Bartholomew's, and became
professionally registered as a doctor.[17] Chapman and Cleese also wrote for the long-running television
comedy series Doctor in the House,[18] and both appeared on a one-off television special, How to Irritate
People alongside Brooke-Taylor and Michael Palin.[19] One of Cleese and Chapman's sketches, featuring a
used car salesman refusing to believe a customer's model had broken down, became the inspiration for the
Dead Parrot sketch.[20] Chapman also co-wrote several episodes of Doctor in the House's follow up, Doctor
in Charge, with Bernard McKenna.[21]

Monty Python
Main article: Monty Python
In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and

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Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus.[23] The group's
writing was split into well-defined teams, with Chapman
collaborating almost exclusively with Cleese.[24] Chapman was
particularly keen to remove stereotypical punchlines in sketches[25]
and created The Colonel, who would stop them in mid-flow by saying
they were "too silly".[22]
Although the pair were officially equal partners, Cleese later thought
that Chapman contributed comparatively little in the way of direct
writing, saying "he would come in, say something marvellous and
then drift off in his own mind."[26] The other Pythons have said that
Chapman's biggest contribution in the writing room was an intuition
Chapman ended several Monty
for what was funny.[26] Gilliam later recalled that "Graham would do
Python's Flying Circus sketches
the nudge that would push it into something extraordinary."[27] The
mid-flow dressed as The Colonel,
show was an immediate success, and Chapman was delighted to learn
complaining they were "too silly".[22]
that medical students at St Bartholomew's crowded round the
television in the bar to watch it.[28] Chapman was frequently late for
rehearsing or recording,[29] leading to the other Pythons calling him "the late Graham Chapman".[30]
Chapman's main contribution to the Dead Parrot sketch, derived from the How to Irritate People piece and
involving a customer returning a faulty toaster, was "How can we make this madder?"[31] He decided to
replace the toaster with a dead Norwegian Blue parrot. Cleese said that he and Chapman believed that "there
was something very funny there, if we could find the right context for it".[31] The group felt that Chapman
had the best acting skills in the group. Cleese complimented Chapman by saying that he was "particularly a
wonderful actor".[32]
Chapman played the lead role in two Python films, Holy Grail and Life of Brian. He was chosen to play the
lead in Holy Grail because of the group's respect towards his straight acting skills, and because the other
members wanted to play lesser, funnier, characters themselves.[33] Chapman did not mind being filmed fully
nude in front of a crowd in Life of Brian, but the scene, filmed in Tunisia, caused problems with the female
Muslim extras.[34]

Other work
Chapman and Douglas Adams wrote a pilot for a TV series in 1975, Out of the Trees, but it received poor
ratings after being broadcast at the same time as Match of the Day and only this initial episode was
produced.[35] In 1978, Chapman co-wrote the comedy film The Odd Job with McKenna, and starred as one
of the main characters. Chapman wanted his friend Keith Moon to play a co-lead role alongside him, but
Moon could not pass an acting test, so the part went to David Jason who had previously appeared on Do Not
Adjust Your Set with Pythons Idle, Jones, and Palin. The film was only moderately successful.[36]
During the 1970s, Chapman became increasingly concerned about the Python's income and finances. He
moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s to avoid British income tax.[37] He guest-starred on several
television series including The Big Show.[38]
In 1976, Chapman began writing a pirate film, Yellowbeard, which came out of conversations between
Chapman and Moon while in Los Angeles. Moon had always wanted to play Long John Silver, so Chapman
began to write a script for him.[39] Moon died in 1978 and the work stalled, eventually being rewritten by
McKenna, then by Peter Cook.[40] The film, which starred Chapman as the eponymous pirate, also featured
appearances from Cook, Marty Feldman, Cleese, Idle, Spike Milligan, and Cheech & Chong.[41] It marks the
last appearance of Feldman, who suffered a fatal heart attack in December 1982.[42] The project was fraught
with financial difficulties, and at times there was not enough money to pay the crew.[43] It was released in
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1983 to mixed reviews. David Robinson, reviewing the film in The Times said "the Monty Python style of
comic anarchy requires more than scatology, rude words and funny faces."[44]
Chapman published his memoirs, A Liar's Autobiography, in 1980, choosing the title because he said "it's
almost impossible to tell the truth".[45] He returned to Britain full time after Yellowbeard was released. He
became involved with the extreme sports club Dangerous Sports Club, which popularised bungee jumping.
Chapman was scheduled to perform a bungee jump himself, but it was cancelled due to safety concerns. [46]

Final years
After reuniting with the other Pythons in The Meaning of Life, Chapman began a lengthy series of U.S.
college tours, talking about the Pythons, the Dangerous Sports Club and Moon, among other subjects.[46]
Saturday Night Live creator and Python fan Lorne Michaels persuaded Chapman to star in The New
Show.[47]
In 1988, Chapman appeared in the Iron Maiden video "Can I Play with Madness".[48] He starred in a pilot of
a proposed television series Jake's Journey, but financial problems prevented a full series from being
made.[49] Chapman was intended to be cast in the Red Dwarf episode "Timeslides", but died before filming
started.[50]

Personal life
Chapman first met his long term partner, David Sherlock in Ibiza in
1966.[51] He later described realising he was homosexual as "an
important moment in my life".[52] He told close friends about his
relationship, including Cleese and Feldman the following year.[53]
Chapman and Sherlock moved to Belsize Park in 1968,[54] and the
pair enjoyed visiting gay clubs in Central London.[55]
Chapman first disclosed his homosexuality in public on British jazz
musician George Melly's television show, becoming one of the first
Chapman lived in this house in
celebrities to do so.[56] He was a vocal spokesman for gay rights,
[57]
Highgate with his partner David
supporting the Gay Liberation Front. In 1971, Chapman and
Sherlock during the late 1960s.
Sherlock adopted John Tomiczek as their son. Chapman met
Tomiczek when the adolescent was a run-away from Liverpool aged
14. After discussions with Tomiczek's father, it was agreed that Chapman would become Tomiczek's legal
guardian.[58] Tomiczek later became Chapman's business manager and died of a heart attack in 1992.[59] In
1972, Chapman supported the newspaper Gay News, which listed him as one of the publication's "special
friends" in recognition.[60]
Later, during his college tour, Chapman mentioned that a television audience member had written to the
Pythons to complain about having a gay group member, adding that the Bible said any man who lies with a
man should be taken out and stoned. With other Pythons already aware of his sexual orientation, Idle
jokingly replied that they had found the perpetrator and killed him.[61] Both Sherlock and Tomiczek
remained a constant in Chapman's life. In the mid-1980s, having resettled in Britain, the three moved to
Maidstone, Kent.[62]
Chapman took up pipe smoking aged 15, which continued for the remainder of his life.[63] He began drinking
heavily during his time at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's, favouring gin. By the time Monty Python went
on tour in 1973, Chapman's drinking had begun to affect performances, missing cues to go on stage.[64] He
stopped drinking in Christmas 1977, concerned he would not be able to play the lead role in Life of Brian

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successfully. He remained sober during the final years of his life.[65]

Death
In 1988, Chapman made a routine visit to a dentist, who found a small but malignant tumour on one of his
tonsils, leading to both being removed via a tonsillectomy.[66] The following year, the cancer spread into
Chapman's spinal cord, where another tumour was surgically removed. Chapman had several chemotherapy
treatments and surgeries during the final months of his life, but ultimately the cancer was declared
inoperable.[67] According to his brother, Chapman was visibly upset by the death of his mother that July, by
which time he was terminally ill.[62] Shortly afterwards, Chapman filmed scenes for the 20th anniversary of
the first broadcast of Flying Circus, the final time he appeared on television.[68][69]
Chapman died on 4 October 1989 in Maidstone Hospital.[70] At the time of his death, he was being visited by
Sherlock, brother John and his sister-in-law, and fellow Pythons Palin and Cleese, the latter of whom had to
be led out of the room to deal with his grief.[70][71] Peter Cook had intended to visit, but arrived too late and
was visibly shaken by the news.[70] Chapman's death occurred on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the
first broadcast of Flying Circus, and Jones called it "the worst case of party-pooping in all history".[71]

Memorial service
The five surviving Python members had
decided to stay away from Chapman's
private funeral to prevent it from
becoming a media circus and to give his
family some privacy. They sent a wreath
in the shape of the famous Python foot
with the message: "To Graham from the
other Pythons with all our love. PS: Stop
us if we're getting too silly".[72] The
Rolling Stones also sent a floral
arrangement, saying "Thanks for all the
laughs".[72]

"I guess we're all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, of such
capability for kindness, of such unusual intelligence, should now so
suddenly be spirited away .... Well, I feel that I should say, "Nonsense.
Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries!" And
the reason I feel I should say this is he would never forgive me if I didn't,
if I threw away this glorious opportunity to shock you all on his behalf.
Anything for him, but mindless good taste.
John Cleese at Graham Chapman's memorial service[71]

A private memorial service for Chapman was held at St Bartholomew's on 3 December. The service began
with a chorus of the hymn "Jerusalem" sung in Engrish with a mock Chinese accent.[73] Cleese delivered a
memorable eulogy to Chapman with a shock humour that he believed Chapman would have wanted,[71] and
became the first person at a televised British memorial service to say "fuck". [74] Palin delivered a eulogy to
Chapman, as did Idle, quipping that Chapman had decided to die rather than listen to Palin once again. Idle
also led the other surviving Pythons and Chapman's close friends and family in a rendition of the song
"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from The Life of Brian. He closed by saying, "I'd just like to be
the last person at this meeting to say 'fuck'."[73]
Ten years after Chapman's death, his ashes were first rumoured to have been "blasted into the skies in a
rocket" with assistance from the Dangerous Sports Club.[75] In a second rumour, Chapman's ashes had been
scattered on Snowdon, North Wales.[76]

Legacy
Since Chapman's death, the speculation of a
Python revival has been inevitably diminished.
Subsequent gatherings of the Pythons have

"We would only do a reunion if Chapman came back from the

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dead. So we're negotiating with his agent."

included an urn said to contain Chapman's ashes.
At the 1998 Aspen Comedy Arts festival, the urn
Eric Idle on speculation of a Monty Python reunion.[77]
was "accidentally" knocked over by Terry
Gilliam, spilling the "ashes" on-stage. The
apparently cremated remains were then removed with a dust-buster.[78] Idle recalled meeting Sherlock saying
"I wish he [Chapman] was here now" and Sherlock replied "Oh, but he is. He's in my pocket!"[79] Asteroid
9617 Grahamchapman, named in Chapman's honour, is one of six asteroids named after the Python
members.

In 1997, Sherlock allowed Jim Yoakum to start the Graham Chapman Archives. Later that year, the novel
Graham Crackers: Fuzzy Memories, Silly Bits, and Outright Lies was released. It is a semi-sequel to A
Liar's Autobiography, with Chapman's works compiled by Jim Yoakum.[80] A compendium of writings,
Calcium Made Interesting: Sketches, Letters, Essays & Gondolas, also compiled and edited by Yoakum was
published in 2005 in association with the David Sherlock and John Tomiczeck trust.[81] In 2000, Chapman's
play O Happy Day was performed by Dad's Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta, Georgia, with assistance of
Cleese and Palin.[82]

A blue plaque has been placed at The

Angel, Highgate, North London in
commemoration of Chapman.

In June 2011, it was announced that Cleese, Jones, Gilliam and Palin
would perform in a 3-D animated version of Chapman's memoir A
Liars Autobiography: Volume VI.[83] Co-director Jeff Simpson
worked closely with Chapman's estate and the surviving Python
members to "get this exactly right".[84] The film, titled A Liar's
Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham
Chapman, was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in
September 2012 and premiered in the UK the following month as part
of the BFI London Film Festival. The voices of Cleese, Gilliam,
Jones, and Palin were spliced into commentary recorded by Chapman
reading from his memoir and taped shortly before his death. The
film's official trailer quotes Chapman saying, "This is the best film
I've been in since I died."[85]

In September 2012, a British Comedy Society blue plaque, to commemorate Chapman, was unveiled at The
Angel pub in Highgate, North London, by Jones, Palin, Barry Cryer, Ray Davies and Carol Cleveland.[86]
Palin said, "This was Graham's manor .... Highgate was his patch and he should be celebrated because he
was a very good, brilliant, funny, nice, wise, kind man, who occasionally drank too much."[87] In December
2014 a green plaque funded by Leicestershire County Council was placed on Chapman's former home in
Burton Road, Melton Mowbray.[88]

Filmography

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Year

Film

1969 The Magic Christian

1970
1971

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Role
Oxford Crew

Notes
Uncredited
Also Writer

Doctor in Trouble

Roddy

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

Fromage

Also Writer

And Now for Something Completely Different

Various Roles

Also Writer

The Statue

News Reader

1974 Monty Python and the Holy Grail

King Arthur, Various Roles

Also Writer

1978 The Odd Job

Arthur Harris

Also
Writer/Producer

1979 Monty Python's Life of Brian

Brian, Various Roles

Also Writer

1982 Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Various Roles

Also Writer

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Various Roles

Also Writer

Clerk

Short Film
Uncredited

Captain Yellowbeard

Also Writer

1987 Still Crazy like a Fox

Detective Inspector Palmer

TV Film

1988 Jake's Journey

Sir George/Queen

TV Film
Also Writer

1989 Stage Fright

Smart Alec

Uncredited

Himself (Archive footage)

Voice
Also Writer

The Colonel and other

characters (archive footage)

Also writer

1983 The Crimson Permanent Assurance

Yellowbeard

2012

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of

Monty Python's Graham Chapman

2014 Monty Python Live (Mostly)

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External links
Graham Chapman at PythOnline Pythons Page (http://pythonline.com/meet/chapman)
Graham Chapman (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/515111) at the British Film Institute's
Screenonline
Graham Chapman (http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=79107) at the Internet Broadway Database
Graham Chapman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001037/) at the Internet Movie Database
Graham Chapman at the BBC Comedy Guide (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent
/c/chapman_graham.shtml)
Graham Chapman at the Comedy Zone (http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/c/chapmangraham.htm)
Graham Chapman at Gay Greats (http://www.fyne.co.uk/index.php?item=461)
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