Graham Chapman was born on January 8, 1941 in Leicestershire, England.
On October 4, 1989, Graham Chapman died in Maidstone, England of spinal and throat cancer.
While a German Air Raid was in progress In England, Graham Chapman was born. His father was a chief police inspector.
Graham Chapman studied medicine at Cambridge and earned an M.D. Graham completed his training at St. Bartholomew's hospital. Chapman only practiced medicine a short time.
While attending college, Chapman took part in a series of comedy skits and realized he wanted to perform comedy instead of doctoring.
In 1969, Graham Chapman with his school friends, Joh Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam formed their own comedy team called Monty Python. Their BBC Series became an instant hit. In 1970 the series was aired on American TV - PSB, which gave the television station the largest audience ever. The comedy skits of the Monty Python Comedy Group has become a standard for college humor.
Graham Chapman was open about his gay sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. His companion was David Sherlock who lived with him for 24 years. Graham adopted and raised a teenage runaway named John Tomiczek.
The last time Graham appeared on film was in the Iron Maiden music video, CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS in 1988.
In 1988, Graham Chapman began working on another series but his health was declining. He was an alcoholic who suffered liver damage before he stopped drinking in 1977. He had many malignant tumors removed, to the point where he was wheelchair bound. On October 1, 1989 he had a massive stroke which turned into a hemorrage. He died at the age of 48 years old.
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