Acting · Directing · Writing · age 83

Eric Idle

Every film, by IMDb rating

The career

Eric Idle, acting career by IMDb rating5-film averagePeak eraLongest 7+ run

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197124 films2014

Current formLast 5: 6.26 vs career 6.24 (+0.02)

As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes

Average

6.24

22 rated films

Vote weighted

6.33

bigger films count more

Median

6.3

half are better

Consistency

±1.30

rating spread

Career

44y

1971 to 2014

Total votes

2.02M

across every film

Best

8.1

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Worst

4.0

Dudley Do-Right

Newest first

Acting filmography

2014	Monty Python Live (Mostly)	Spanish Guitarist	7.6	3,009
2010	Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy	Baritonish	7.1	1,459
2008	Delgo	Spig	4.2	3,350
2007	Shrek the Third	Merlin	6.1	366K
2004	Ella Enchanted	Narrator	6.3	82,107
2000	102 Dalmatians	Waddlesworth	4.9	42,354
1999	Dudley Do-Right	Prospector	4.0	11,975
1998	Quest for Camelot	Devon	6.3	19,901
1998	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie	Slyly the Fox	5.9	3,604
1997	An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn	Alan Smithee	3.5	3,896
1996	The Wind in the Willows	Rat	6.3	3,679
1995	Casper	Dibs	6.2	162K
1993	Splitting Heirs	Tommy Butterfly Rainbow Peace Patel	5.5	4,841
1992	Mom and Dad Save the World	Raff	5.4	5,672
1991	Missing Pieces	Wendel	·	319
1990	Nuns on the Run	Brian Hope	6.0	9,792
1990	Too Much Sun	Sonny Rivers	·	605
1988	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Desmond	7.1	60,394
1983	Monty Python's the Meaning of Life	Gunther	7.5	131K
1983	Yellowbeard	Commander Clement	5.9	9,492

Better together?

The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.

Takes

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