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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Terry Gilliam, Lotte Reiniger, Gerald Potterton, Phil Mulloy, Max Hattler, Jan Pinkava, John Ryan, Gordon Murray, Martyn Pick, Andy Frain, Errol Le Cain, Joel Veitch, Peter Foldes, James Baxter, Alastair Swinnerton, Howard Read, Richard C. Jack, Simon J. Smith, George Dunning, Suzie Templeton, Darren Walsh, Gary Chapman, Richard Cullen, Sam Fell, John Wayne Stevenson, John W. Dunn, David Sproxton, Adam Shaheen, Phil McNally, Mark Taylor, Chris Tulloch, David Anderson, John Halas, Gordon Langley, Gary Carpenter. Excerpt: Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam ( ; born 22 November 1940) is an American-British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). He is the only "Python" not born in Britain; he took British citizenship in 1968. Gilliam was born in Medicine Lake, Minnesota, the son of Beatrice (née Vance) and James Hall Gilliam, who was a traveling salesman for Folgers before becoming a carpenter. Gilliam has two siblings: a sister two years younger, and a brother ten years younger. The family moved to Panorama City, California, in 1952 because of his sister's bout of pneumonia. Gilliam attended Birmingham High School where he was class president and senior prom King, was voted "Most Likely to Succeed", and achieved straight A's. During high school, he discovered Mad magazine, which was then edited by Harvey Kurtzman; this later influenced his work. Following high school, he attended Occidental College, studying physics and fine arts before finally majoring in political science. Gilliam contributed to the college magazine, Fang, becoming the editor during his junior year and turning it into a tribute to Kurtzman, to whom he later sent copies. While in college, Gilliam was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. After finishing college, Gilliam worked briefly for an advertising agency before Kurtzman offered him a job at Help! magazine. Gilliam later spoke to Salman Rushdie about defining experiences in the 1960s that would set the foundations for his views on the world, later influencing his art and career: Terry Gilliam started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist. One of his early photographic strips for ''Help!'' featured future Python cast-member John Cleese.