
Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with Terry Jones. Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as The Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set. Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including "Argument Clinic", "Dead Parrot", "The Lumberjack Song", and "The Spanish Inquisition". Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns. He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. After Python, he began a new career as a travel writer and travel documentarian. His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas and, most recently, Eastern Europe. In 2000 Palin was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to television.

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Graham Chapman's Personal Best

The Magic Faraway Tree

ZULU Comedy Galla

Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs

Tomkinson's Schooldays

Escape from Stalag Luft 112B

Whinfrey's Last Case

The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1

The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2

Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails

Travels with Palin

Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television

When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain

50 Films to See Before You Die

Frost on Sketch Shows

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

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

空飛ぶモンティ・パイソン

Michael Palin: Into Iraq

Himalaya with Michael Palin

Concert for George

ザ・シンプソンズ

Around the World in 20 Years

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Attenborough at 90

The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life'

Murder at Moorstones Manor

Golden Gordon

Roger of the Raj

The Unknown Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy

John Peel's Record Box

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Eric Idle's Personal Best

Innes Lloyd: The Producer

A Life on Screen

Staged

モンティ・パイソン・アンド・ホーリー・グレイル

Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation

Pole to Pole

モンティ・パイソン ライフ・オブ・ブライアン

The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations

Michael Palin in North Korea

未来世紀ブラジル

The Secret Life of Brian

The Secret Policeman's Ball

The Meaning of Monty Python

Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus

Do Not Adjust Your Set

Ripping Yarns

Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

Full Circle with Michael Palin

Michael Palin's New Europe

The Frank Skinner Show

Produced by George Martin

Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live

モンティ・パイソン ライブ・アット・ザ・ハリウッド・ボウル

人生狂騒曲

Michael Palin In Wyeth's World

Sahara with Michael Palin

Brazil with Michael Palin

ヴァニティ・フェア ~燃ゆる欲望~

Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus

Michael Palin in Nigeria

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・コナン・オブライエン

ワンダとダイヤと優しい奴ら

モンティ・パイソン・アンド・ナウ

グレアム・ノートン・ショー

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979

Monty Python: Live at Aspen

Monty Python Live (Mostly)

スターリンの葬送狂騒曲

The Wind in the Willows

Generation '66

Michael Palin & the Mystery of Hammershøi

The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia

Michael Palin: A Life on Screen

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

The Complete and Utter History of Britain

Great Railway Journeys

The Secret Life of Trees

サタデー・ナイト・ライブ

Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python

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

ジム・ヘンソンのウィッチズ 大魔女をやっつけろ!

Remember Me

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

アーサー・クリスマスの大冒険

バンデットQ

How to Irritate People

The Willows in Winter

Pleasure at Her Majesty's

Monty Python Conquers America

What Is Brazil?

An Accidental Studio

A Private Function

The Wipers Times

Worzel Gummidge

American Friends

G.B.H.

Fierce Creatures

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Jabberwocky

Is This a Record?

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

Three Men in a Boat

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

Anatomy of a Liar

Monty Python In The Netherlands

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

The Dress

Monty Python: Who's There?

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

Going Live!

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Clangers

ミラクル・ニール!

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

Michael Palin in Venezuela

The Grand Knockout Tournament

The Wind in the Willows

The Missionary

Monty Python's Personal Best

The Jonathan Ross Show

Life of Python

Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind

Hitler: The Comedy Years

The Box

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Legends

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

Wogan

The One Show

Jeepers Creepers

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)

The Academy of Armando

Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report

Inside Shabby Road: The Music of 'The Rutles'

Get Up and Go: The Making of 'The Rutles'

Close-Up Toothpaste Relaunch

Ending It All

Palin on Redpath

The Seventh Python

The Movie Life of George

The Fringe, Fame and Me

Euroshow '71: May Day Special

Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace

Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute

Tracey Ullman: A Class Act

Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse

Timewatch: The Last Day of World War One

Monty Python in Aberystwyth

Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall

The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything

Comic Roots: Michael Palin

Making Qi

Across the Andes by Frog

The Curse of the Claw

Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns

The Art Of Travel With Michael Palin

The Broken Bottle

Comedians Do It On Stage

The Roots of Monty Python

What the Pythons Did Next...

Henry Cleans Up

The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3

The Monty Python Story

Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm

Monty Python: 30th Anniversary Sketches

Monty Python: Pythonland

Viz: The Documentary

Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Michael Palin's Personal Best

The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971

Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated

Rabbit Ears - Jack and the Beanstalk

Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release

Monty Python's Flying Circus—John Cleese's Personal Best

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Graham Chapman's Personal Best

New Tales from Around the World in 80 Days

Joke

Pebble Mill at One

Movie Connections

Michael Palin: The Art of Travel

Parkinson

Perspectives

Remembers…