FROM THE SKETCH ARCHIVE
A face you won’t forget
Nelson Bedowes
Played by John Cleese
John Cleese’s bewigged defence counsel in the courtroom continuation of Monty Python’s Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook. He sits beside the policeman during Alexander Yalt’s case. The continuous television scene later identifies him as Nelson…
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John Cleese’s bewigged defence counsel in the courtroom continuation of Monty Python’s Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook. He sits beside the policeman during Alexander Yalt’s case. The continuous television scene later identifies him as Nelson Bedowes QC while parodying newspaper captions.
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