Cinema of the United Kingdom as Goldcrest, HandMade Films and Merchant Ivory Productions. Handmade Films, which was partly owned by George Harrison, was originally formed to take over the production of "Monty Python's Life of Brian", after EMI's Bernard Delfont (Lew Grade's brother) had pulled out. Handmade also bought and released the gangster drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980), produced by a Lew Grade subsidiary, after its original backers became cautious. Members of the Python team were involved in other comedies during the decade, including Terry Gilliam's fantasy films "Time Bandits" (1981) and "Brazil" (1985), and John Cleese's hit "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988), while
Julian Doyle (filmmaker) compares the Monty Python film with the actual Biblical events and comes to the conclusion that this is the most accurate Biblical film ever made. Doyle also appeared in the Monty Python film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", playing the police sergeant who abruptly ends the film by putting his hand on the camera. Julian Doyle (filmmaker) Julian Doyle is a British filmmaker who is best known for editing "Monty Python's Life of Brian" and shooting the special effects for Terry Gilliam's films "Brazil" and "Time Bandits". Doyle was born in London from an Irish father, Bob Doyle, and