Subj : Re: Spike Milligan cameo in Holy Grail To : Reverend Ozone From : Reverend Ozone Date : Mon Aug 18 2008 09:24 pm From: "Reverend Ozone" For reasons known only to Him, *Newsgroups* typed: > Hi group, > > The Spike Milligan cameo in 'Life of Brian' is well-recognised, but did > Spike Milligan *also* had a cameo role in 'Monty Python and the Holy > Grail'? > > There are two quick shots in the 'Burn the Witch' scene that look > awfully like him. > > The first shot is when the crowd of peasants are rushing towards > Bedivere with the witch in tow. The Eric Idle peasant holding the sickle > calls out, 'We've found a witch', and shortly afterwards, the Michael > Palin peasant puts his face in the camera and says, 'We've got a witch'. > Almost immediately after that, we see a white-haired man in the crowd > with shaving cream on his face. > > The second shot is immediately after the witch has been placed onto the > scales. There is a quick shot of the same white-heaired man with shaving > cream on his face, framed between a youth with a hat and a man with a beard. > > The shots are otherwise unimportant, and seem to be there precisely in > order to serve as vehicles for a cameo. They look like Milligan, even > underneath the shaving cream. > > I can't find any previous discussion on this matter. Any thoughts? Hmmm, hadn't heard of this before but I did a cursory look around the MPATHG site (and his own) on IMDB.com and found nothing to connect him with "Grail". Now I'm gonna have to watch it /again/, you've got me curious. -- Reverend Ozone "Non illegitimi carborundum est" --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 - Meridian, MS - USA (1:396/4) .