Having been awarded a CBE for services to television in the 2000 New Year Honours, Palin received a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to travel, culture and geography. ==Early and personal life== Palin was born in Ranmoor, Sheffield, the second child and only son of Edward Moreton Palin (1900–1977) and Mary Rachel Lockhart (née Ovey; 1903–1990).
The DVD Michael Palin on Art contains all these documentaries except for the Matisse programme. In November 2008, Palin presented a First World War documentary about Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, when thousands of soldiers lost their lives in battle after the war had officially ended.
His maternal grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lockhart Ovey, DSO, was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1927. Palin was educated at Birkdale and Shrewsbury School.
Sir Michael Edward Palin (; born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, television presenter and public speaker.
He also performed and wrote in the Oxford Revue (called the Et ceteras) with Jones. In 1966, Palin married Helen Gibbins, whom he first met in 1959 on holiday in Southwold in Suffolk.
He moved to Gospel Oak, London in the 1960s. ==Early career== After finishing university in 1965 Palin became a presenter on a comedy pop show called Now! for the television contractor Television Wales and the West.
After leaving Shrewsbury in 1962, he went on to read modern history at Brasenose College, Oxford.
He moved to Gospel Oak, London in the 1960s. ==Early career== After finishing university in 1965 Palin became a presenter on a comedy pop show called Now! for the television contractor Television Wales and the West.
He also performed and wrote in the Oxford Revue (called the Et ceteras) with Jones. In 1966, Palin married Helen Gibbins, whom he first met in 1959 on holiday in Southwold in Suffolk.
They had earlier collaborated on the play Secrets from the BBC series Black and Blue in 1973.
His solo musical compositions included "Decomposing Composers" and "Finland". ==Other work== After the Monty Python television series ended in 1974, the Palin/Jones team worked on Ripping Yarns, an intermittent television comedy series broadcast over three years from 1976.
His solo musical compositions included "Decomposing Composers" and "Finland". ==Other work== After the Monty Python television series ended in 1974, the Palin/Jones team worked on Ripping Yarns, an intermittent television comedy series broadcast over three years from 1976.
He starred as Dennis the Peasant in Terry Gilliam's 1977 film Jabberwocky.
Since 1980 he has made a number of travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with fellow Python member Terry Jones.
In 1980, Palin co-wrote Time Bandits with Terry Gilliam.
The tribe I visited simply want to carry on living in the villages that they and their ancestors have always lived in." ==Television documentaries== ===Travel=== Palin's first travel documentary was episode 4 of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, entitled "Confessions of a Trainspotter".
Diaries 1980–1988: Halfway to Hollywood – The Film Years.
He also acted in the film. In 1982, Palin wrote and starred in The Missionary, co-starring Maggie Smith.
He co-starred with Maggie Smith again in the 1984 comedy film A Private Function.
In 1984, he reunited with Terry Gilliam to appear in Brazil.
His sister Angela was nine years his senior; despite the age gap the two had a close relationship until her suicide in 1987.
This meeting was later fictionalised in Palin's teleplay for the 1987 BBC television drama East of Ipswich.
Diaries 1988–1998: Travelling to Work.
The series is a trip along the Palin family line. Starting in 1989, Palin appeared as presenter in a series of travel programmes made for the BBC.
In 1991 Palin appeared in a film, American Friends, he wrote based upon a real event in the life of his great-grandfather, a fellow at St John's College, Oxford.
Palin filmed on the battlefields of Northern France and Belgium for the programme, called the Last Day of World War One, produced for the BBC's Timewatch series. ==Awards and honours== Palin was instrumental in setting up the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in 1993.
Also in 1993, each member of Monty Python had an asteroid named after them.
In 1994, Palin narrated the English language audiobook version of Esio Trot by children's author Roald Dahl. In 1997, Palin had a small cameo role in Australian soap opera Home and Away.
At the Kyle of Lochalsh, Palin bought the station's long metal platform sign and is seen lugging it back to London with him. In 1994, Palin travelled through Ireland for the same series, entitled "Derry to Kerry".
(John Cleese had turned down a CBE in 1996, calling it "too silly", and declined a life peerage in 1999). == Legacy == In 2017 the British Library acquired Palin's archive consisting of project files relating to his work, notebooks, and his personal diaries.
In 1994, Palin narrated the English language audiobook version of Esio Trot by children's author Roald Dahl. In 1997, Palin had a small cameo role in Australian soap opera Home and Away.
The first, on Scottish painter Anne Redpath, was Palin on Redpath in 1997.
(John Cleese had turned down a CBE in 1996, calling it "too silly", and declined a life peerage in 1999). == Legacy == In 2017 the British Library acquired Palin's archive consisting of project files relating to his work, notebooks, and his personal diaries.
Having been awarded a CBE for services to television in the 2000 New Year Honours, Palin received a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to travel, culture and geography. ==Early and personal life== Palin was born in Ranmoor, Sheffield, the second child and only son of Edward Moreton Palin (1900–1977) and Mary Rachel Lockhart (née Ovey; 1903–1990).
In October 2018, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society awarded Palin the first Louie Kamookak Medal for advances in geography, for his book on the history of the polar exploration vessel HMS Erebus. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours.
In 2002, Virgin Trains' new £5 million high speed Super Voyager train number 221130 was named Michael Palin it carries his name externally and a plaque is located adjacent to the onboard shop with information on Palin and his many journeys.
In 2003, inside the Globe a commemorative stone was placed – Palin has his own stone, to mark donors to the theatre, but it is misspelled as "Michael Pallin".
His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe, Brazil, and in 2018, he visited North Korea; documenting his visit to the isolated country in a series broadcast on Channel 5. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedians' Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
In November 2005, he appeared in the John Peel's Record Box documentary. In 2013, Palin appeared in a First World War drama titled The Wipers Times written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
The DVD Michael Palin on Art contains all these documentaries except for the Matisse programme. In November 2008, Palin presented a First World War documentary about Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, when thousands of soldiers lost their lives in battle after the war had officially ended.
(He is a model railway enthusiast.) In 2008, he received the James Joyce Award of the Literary and Historical Society in Dublin.
From 2009 to 2012 he was President of the Royal Geographical Society.
In recognition of his services to the promotion of geography, Palin was awarded the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in March 2009, along with a Fellowship of this Society (FRGS). In June 2013, he was similarly honoured in Canada with a gold medal for achievements in geography by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
In June 2009, Palin was elected for a three-year term as President of the Royal Geographical Society.
In July 2015, he signed an open letter and gave an interview to support "a strong BBC at the centre of British life" at a time the government was reviewing the corporation's size and activities. In July 2010, Palin sent a message of support for the Dongria Kondh tribe of India, who are resisting mining on their land by the company Vedanta Resources.
From 2009 to 2012 he was President of the Royal Geographical Society.
On 12 May 2013, Palin was made a BAFTA fellow, the highest honour that is conferred by the organisation.
In November 2005, he appeared in the John Peel's Record Box documentary. In 2013, Palin appeared in a First World War drama titled The Wipers Times written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
In recognition of his services to the promotion of geography, Palin was awarded the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in March 2009, along with a Fellowship of this Society (FRGS). In June 2013, he was similarly honoured in Canada with a gold medal for achievements in geography by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
In a 2018 poll for Yorkshire Day he was named the greatest Yorkshireman ever, ahead of Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart. In September 2013, Moorlands School, Leeds, named one of their school houses "Palin" after him.
In July 2015, he signed an open letter and gave an interview to support "a strong BBC at the centre of British life" at a time the government was reviewing the corporation's size and activities. In July 2010, Palin sent a message of support for the Dongria Kondh tribe of India, who are resisting mining on their land by the company Vedanta Resources.
At the Cannes Film Festival in 2016, it was announced that Palin was set to star alongside Adam Driver in Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
After filming for Fierce Creatures finished, Palin went on a travel journey for a BBC documentary and, returning a year later, found that the end of Fierce Creatures had failed at test screenings and had to be reshot. After Fierce Creatures and a small part in The Wind in the Willows, a film directed by and starring Terry Jones, it would be twenty more years until Palin's next film role, as Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov in the 2017 satirical black comedy The Death of Stalin.
The University of St Andrews awarded Palin an [degree|honorary] Doctor of Science degree during their June 2017 graduation ceremonies, with the degree recognising his contribution to the public's understanding of contemporary geography.
(John Cleese had turned down a CBE in 1996, calling it "too silly", and declined a life peerage in 1999). == Legacy == In 2017 the British Library acquired Palin's archive consisting of project files relating to his work, notebooks, and his personal diaries.
His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe, Brazil, and in 2018, he visited North Korea; documenting his visit to the isolated country in a series broadcast on Channel 5. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedians' Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
Son William is Director of Conservation at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, and oversaw the 2018–19 restoration of the Painted Hall.
The documentary was broadcast in September 2018, in two one-hour segments on Channel 5 in the UK and in a single two-hour programme on National Geographic in the United States.
In a 2018 poll for Yorkshire Day he was named the greatest Yorkshireman ever, ahead of Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart. In September 2013, Moorlands School, Leeds, named one of their school houses "Palin" after him.
In October 2018, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society awarded Palin the first Louie Kamookak Medal for advances in geography, for his book on the history of the polar exploration vessel HMS Erebus. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours.
Having been awarded a CBE for services to television in the 2000 New Year Honours, Palin received a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to travel, culture and geography. ==Early and personal life== Palin was born in Ranmoor, Sheffield, the second child and only son of Edward Moreton Palin (1900–1977) and Mary Rachel Lockhart (née Ovey; 1903–1990).
Palin was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2019 New Year Honours for "services to travel, culture and geography".
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