Known For
Complete Filmography

The Entire Universe
2016
Music
Eric Idle persuades Professor Brian Cox to present a lecture on the birth of the entire universe. Brian soon realises Eric is actually hosting a comed...

Monty Python Live (Mostly)
2014
as Conductor
Celebrate the last night of the Pythons on the big screen! With John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Monty Python Live (Mostly)
2014
Original Music Composer
Celebrate the last night of the Pythons on the big screen! With John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

What About Dick?
2012
The movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley, and tells the story of the subsequent d...

What About Dick?
2012
Musical, Original Music Composer
The movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley, and tells the story of the subsequent d...

Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
2010
as Conductor
Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a comic oratorio based on Monty Python's Life of Brian, which retells the tragic tale of Mandy, impregnat...

Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
2010
Writer, Original Music Composer
Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a comic oratorio based on Monty Python's Life of Brian, which retells the tragic tale of Mandy, impregnat...

The South Bank Show: Spamalot
2006
Eric Idle is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 2006 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). The surviving members of Monty Python discuss the huge su...

The Wind in the Willows
1996
Songs, Original Music Composer
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, ...

A Good Man in Africa
1994
Original Music Composer
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish A...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
1993
Original Music Composer
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming...

Carry On Columbus
1992
Original Music Composer
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

Thacker
1992
Music
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has h...

Mystery Date
1991
Original Music Composer
Tom McHugh quickly learns that his perfect big brother Craig isn't all he's cracked up to be while on a night on the town with the girl next door, dur...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
1991
Original Music Composer
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create ...

Bullseye!
1990
Original Music Composer
Spies force two British con men to pose as look-alike scientists peddling cheap-energy fusion.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1990
Original Music Composer
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Original Music Composer
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama...

UHF
1989
Original Music Composer
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.

A Fish Called Wanda
1988
Original Music Composer
While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

Sweet As You Are
1988
Original Music Composer
A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.

Personal Services
1987
Original Music Composer
The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows C...

Love with a Perfect Stranger
1986
Original Music Composer
Beautiful wealthy American businesswoman meets eccentric Irishman on an Italian train, who sets out to woo her. What ensues is something neither imagi...

Once Bitten
1985
Original Music Composer
Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a vi...

A Private Function
1984
Conductor, Original Music Composer
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Ch...

Oxford Blues
1984
Conductor, Original Music Composer
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with he...

Bullshot
1983
Original Music Composer
The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - m...

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1983
Original Music Composer
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes ...

The Crimson Permanent Assurance
1983
Music
A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.

Nursery Rhymes
1982
as narrator
70 favourite traditional songs and rhymes presented as a pop-up book which comes to life through animation, puppetry & live performances. The beautif...

Nursery Rhymes
1982
Music Director
70 favourite traditional songs and rhymes presented as a pop-up book which comes to life through animation, puppetry & live performances. The beautif...