IN CHARACTER
A face you won’t forget
Henry Wensleydale
Played by Michael Palin
Henry Wensleydale is the cheerful proprietor of the cheese emporium in Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch, played by Michael Palin, who has an excuse for every cheese he cannot supply (Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1972).
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