FROM THE SKETCH ARCHIVE
A face you won’t forget
The Hungarian
Played by John Cleese
John Cleese's Hungarian visitor in Monty Python's Flying Circus whose wildly mistranslated English phrasebook turns ordinary requests into baffling innuendo, first at a tobacconist's and later at the Green Midget Cafe.
2sketches in the archive
1performer in the role
In character. On screen.
A little more of their character.
Behind the character
The people in the part.
A little character study
More to the story.
Seen in the same sketches
They’re in good company.
One great character.
A whole cast to discover.