John Cleese

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1. Graham Chapman

   Author of The Pythons: Autobiography by The Pythons, The Fairly Incomplete & Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Songbook, Graham Crackers: Fuzzy Memories, Silly Bits, and Outright Lies

2. Peter Jackson

   Author of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [film - 2001], The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [film]

3. Gregor Verbinski

   Author of Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl [Film], Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest [Film], Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End [Film]

4. Chris Columbus

   Author of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [movie], Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [movie]

5. David Yates

   Author of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [movie], Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)

6. Monty Python

   Author of The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All The Words, Volume 2, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mnti Pythn Ik Den Hlie Grailen (Bk), Monty Python's Big Red Book

7. Terry Gilliam

   Author of Gilliam on Gilliam (Directors on Directors), 12 Monkeys [film name], Animations of Mortality

8. Andrew Adamson

   Author of Shrek, Shrek 2 [film]

9. John Glen

   Author of A View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy

10. Sam Raimi

    Author of Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2

11. Joss Whedon

    Author of Firefly [TV series], Serenity [Film]

12. The Wachowski Brothers

    Author of The Matrix Reloaded [film], The Matrix Revolutions [film]

13. Alfonso Cuarón

    Author of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [movie]

14. Tim Burton

    Author of Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Batman Returns [1992 movie]

15. Brad Bird

    Author of The Incredibles, Ratatouille [2007 film]

16. Gary Larson

    Author of The PreHistory of The Far Side, The Far Side Gallery 2, Unnatural Selections

17. Michael Palin

    Author of Hemingway's Chair, Ripping Yarns, A Pocketful of Python: Volume 3

18. Eric Idle

    Author of The Road to Mars, The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America, The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book

19. Terry Jones

    Author of Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, Dr. Fegg's Encyclopedia of All World Knowledge: (Formerly the Nasty Book, A Pocketful of Python: Volume 1

20. Guy Hamilton

    Author of Live and Let Die [film], Goldfinger [film], Diamonds are forever