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| Graham Chapman | Chairman | |
| John Cleese | Fish #2 | |
| Terry Gilliam | Window Washer | |
| Eric Idle | Gunther | |
| Terry Jones | Bert | |
| Michael Palin | Window Washer | |
| Carol Cleveland | Beefeater Waitress | |
| Simon Jones | Chadwick | |
| Patricia Quinn | Mrs. Williams | |
| Judy Loe | Nurse #1 | |
| Andrew Maclachlan | Groom | |
| Mark Holmes | Victim #2 (Cheerful Severed Head) | |
| Valerie Whittington | Mrs. Moore | |
| Jennie Franks | Bride | |
| Imogen Bickford-Smith | Nurse #2 | |
| Angela Mann | Wife of Guest #2 | |
| Peter Lovstrom | Brown's Son | |
| George Silver | Diner Eating Howard the Fish | |
| Chris Grant | ||
| Sydney Arnold | (segment The Crimson Permanent Assurance) | |
| Guy Bertrand | (segment The Crimson Permanent Assurance) | |
| Andrew Bicknell | (segment The Crimson Permanent Assurance) | |
| Ross Davidson | (segment The Crimson Permanent Assurance) | |
| Myrtle Devenish | Old Lady (segment The Crimson Permanent Assurance) | |
| Tim Douglas | (segment The Crimson Permanent Assurance) | 
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| Producer | 
              John Goldstone
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| Writer/Composer | 
              Terry Gilliam
               Terry Jones Eric Idle Graham Chapman  | 
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| Cinematography | 
              Roger Pratt
               Peter Hannan  | 
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| Music | 
              John Du Prez
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             Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.  | 
        
            
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