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Article: "Monty Python" director Ian MacNaughton dies at 76
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- January 3, 2003
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Dateline: LONDON
Ian MacNaughton, a television director who helped bring the anarchic
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" to the screen, has died at the age
of 76.
MacNaughton died Dec. 10 in Munich, Germany as a result of injuries
sustained in a 2001 car accident, Monty Python member Terry Jones
said.
MacNaughton directed all but the first four episodes of "Monty Python,
" which ran on BBC television between 1969 and 1974. In an obituary
published in The Guardian newspaper, Jones said the series began with
"a certain amount of friction" between the director and the strong-
willed comedians. But MacNaughton soon became a valued member of the ...