"Fawlty Towers" star

• "Splitting Heirs" actor
• He played Basil Fawlty
• Monty Python co-founder
• Idle collaborator?
• His website bio says "Writer, Actor & Tall Person"
• Q player in "Die Another Day"
• "How to Irritate People" comedian John
• Monty Python alumnus John
• Six-foot-five funny fellow

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cleese is a surname from Britain; an English surname, and a Scottish surname originating from MacCleese/McCleese.