Denis O’Brien Dies: Producer With George Harrison For ‘Monty Python’s Life Of Brian’ Was 80
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deadline.comDenis O’Brien, best known for producing the comedy Monty Python’s Life of Brian with former Beatle George Harrison, died Dec.
3 in a Swindon, UK hospital. He was 80 and passed from intra-abdominal sepsis, his daughter said.O’Brien and Harrison’s Handmade Films had a hit right out of the box with the 1979 comedy Monty Python’s Life of Brian, a semi-blasphemous story of a young Jewish-Roman man who is born on the same day and next door to Jesus, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.
It was banned in several locations or slapped with an X for its outrageous stunts, including a closing sing-a-long on the cross.With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and MIchael Palin in the cast, the producers thought the
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