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GenealogyBuff.com - Ian MacNaughton, actor and television director
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Date: Sunday, 4 September 2016, at 4:48 p.m.
System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC!Ian MacNaughton, actor and television director
December 30, 1925 - December 10, 2002
Former actor who turned to directing and guided Monty Python's Flying Circus and Rising Damp to success died in Munich, Germany, on December 10, 2002, aged 76 from injures he sustained in a car accident in Hall, Austria. Far from being an overnight success when it arrived on the scene in 1969, Monty Python’s Flying Circus struggled initially against unfavourable late-night scheduling and some unconvinced BBC executives, but the indubitable talent of Palin, Cleese, Jones, Idle, Chapman and Gilliam ensured that the programme, which introduced us to such classic moments as the Ministry of Silly Walks, a dead Norwegian blue parrot and the Spanish Inquisition, is now regarded as a British institution.
He was born in Glasgow and is survived by his wife, Ike, whom he married in 1995, his first wife, Rita (they divorced in 1958), and a son and daughter from his first marriage.
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