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Actor · 1943–

Michael Palin

Michael Palin is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. Born on 5 May 1943, this profile follows Michael Palin through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include A Fish Called Wanda. The location trail reaches Old Bailey, Maida Vale and London Docklands, with existing stories in London. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

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Michael Palin
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CHAPTER 01

Life and work

Michael Palin is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. Born: 5 May 1943. Citizenship recorded in the biographical source: United Kingdom.

Michael Palin — biographical record ↗︎

THE PLACES BEHIND THE STORY

A life on the map.

Explore 9 connections. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.

IN THE STORY

Explore a shared connection.

Browse all people →

WORKS

Culture, connected.

Follow the work through its real places.

KEEP EXPLORING

Cities and Worlds.

CITY

London ↗︎

From the West End to the streets beyond it: cinema, music and the layers of a changing city.

WORLD · Movies

A Fish Called Wanda ↗︎

Follow A Fish Called Wanda through 9 real London locations recorded by an official city dataset or open production-location source.

PEOPLE IN THE STORY

Creative connections.

Follow collaborators through their work and the real places tied to it.

Actor

Jamie Lee Curtis ↗︎

Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress and author. Born on 22 November 1958, this profile follows Jamie Lee Curtis through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Halloween (1978), True Lies (1994) and A Fish Called Wanda. The location trail reaches Hollywood Reservoir · Mulholland Dam, The Biltmore Los Angeles and Westin Bonaventure Hotel, with existing stories in London. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

Actor

Kevin Kline ↗︎

Kevin Kline is an American actor. Born on 24 October 1947, this profile follows Kevin Kline through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Chaplin (1992) and A Fish Called Wanda. The location trail reaches The MacArthur · Park Plaza, Old Bailey and Maida Vale, with existing stories in London. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

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