HandMade Films HandMade Films HandMade Films is a British film production and distribution company. Notable films from the studio include "Monty Python's Life of Brian", "Time Bandits" and "Withnail and I". HandMade Films was formed by former Beatle George Harrison and business partner Denis O'Brien in 1978 to finance the Monty Python film "Life of Brian". Harrison had first been introduced to O'Brien by actor Peter Sellers in 1973. Soon after, the two went into business together. When the original financiers of "Brian", EMI Films, pulled out of the project less than a week before filming was to commence, the creators had
British comedy films comedies passes through television. Monty Python team, created in 1969, is composed of six members : Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. Even if most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including "Dad's Army" and "On the Buses", the greatest successes, however, came with the films of the Monty Python team, including "And Now for Something Completely Different" (1971), "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) and "Monty Python's Life of Brian" (1979). One of the most famous movies of the 1980s (in part realized by Monty