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John Cleese Trivia
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- Co-owns the Christine Schell Fine Objects antique shop in Montecito, CA.
- The inspiration for Fawlty Towers came from a hotel stay he had with the other Pythons in the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, England. The hotel manager was called Donald Sinclair, someone Cleese considered to be the rudest man he had ever encountered. He later played a character by the name of Donald P. Sinclair in Rat Race (2001).
- Who's Who lists his recreations as "gluttony, sloth."
- Went to the United States with the Footlights stage show "Cambridge Circus" in 1964, and appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show".
- His mother, Muriel Cleese (b. Cross, 11 November 1899 - 11 November 2000) died on her 101th birthday.
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