This Was Only One of the Many Occasions on Which He Met His Death
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A Well-Manicured Corpse
John Neville, who slummed it with Shakespeare before being discovered by Python, has died at the age of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 86. Neville was brilliant as Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen, either the world’s greatest liar or its first superhero in wildly entertaining, if dubiously accurate tales, in Terry Gilliam’s vastly underappreciated The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. A financial flop, the film launched Neville into a late-career resurgence that netted appearances in The Road to Wellville and Urban Legend and distanced him from early career floundering that saw him play Romeo to Claire Bloom’s Juliet, Hamlet to Judi Dench’s Ophelia and Othello to Richard Burton’s Iago on stage.
A Well-Manicured Corpse
John Neville, who slummed it with Shakespeare before being discovered by Python, has died at the age of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 86. Neville was brilliant as Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen, either the world’s greatest liar or its first superhero in wildly entertaining, if dubiously accurate tales, in Terry Gilliam’s vastly underappreciated The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. A financial flop, the film launched Neville into a late-career resurgence that netted appearances in The Road to Wellville and Urban Legend and distanced him from early career floundering that saw him play Romeo to Claire Bloom’s Juliet, Hamlet to Judi Dench’s Ophelia and Othello to Richard Burton’s Iago on stage.
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