Eric Idle

Cast · Writer · Director

Born

March 29, 1943 · South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

Eric was born at at Harton Hospital, South Shields which was where his mother was born . Despite the majority of his childhood being spent in the Midlands where. when he was 7. his mother enrolled him at the Royal Wolverhampton School as a boarder he has always considered himself to be a Geordie even now when he now lives in Los Angeles near writer Ian Le Frenais who wrote Auf Wierdensen Pet. His mother's family had sweet shops in South Shields while his father's side of the family were dentists Another side were in the circus and treated him like royalty and more so when the Pythons made the Flying Circus. He and John Du Prez who had been writing songs for about 30 years without being taken seriously did a musical which took Broadway by storm and won Best Musical at the 2005 Tony Awards