IN CHARACTER
A face you won’t forget
Alexander Yalt
Played by Michael Palin
Michael Palin’s fictional phrasebook publisher in Monty Python’s Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook and its courtroom continuation. Also spelled Alexander Yahlt in the television script, he is prosecuted over the misleading translations in his…
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Michael Palin’s fictional phrasebook publisher in Monty Python’s Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook and its courtroom continuation. Also spelled Alexander Yahlt in the television script, he is prosecuted over the misleading translations in his company’s English–Hungarian phrasebook.
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