Michael Palin was 27 in And Now for Something Completely Different when he played the character 'Gumby / Man with tape recorder / Phrasebook Author / Arthur Pewtey / Second self - defence student / Second Tenant / Lost His Wallet / Shrill Petrol Announcer / Milkman / Ernest Scribbler / Pet shop employee / Lumberjack / Headwaiter Gilberto / Herbert Anchovy / Blackmail Presenter / Gervais Brookhamster / Town Guild Lady'.
That was over 53 years ago in 1971.
Today he is 81, and has starred in 95 movies in total, 90 of those since And Now for Something Completely Different was released.
In And Now for Something Completely Different, I think Michael Palin looks: