John Du Prez

John Du Prez was born on Dec 14, 1946 in UK. John Du Prez's big-screen debut came with Time Bandits directed by Terry Gilliam in 1981. John Du Prez is known for Monty Python Live (Mostly) directed by Eric Idle, John Cleese stars as Llama lecturer and Terry Gilliam as Spanish Dancer. The most recent award John Du Prez achieved is Grammy Awards. The upcoming new movie John Du Prez plays is Monty Python Live (Mostly) which will be released on Jul 20, 2014.

John Du Prez is a musician and composer best known as a past member of 1980's multi-hit New Wave Salsa group Modern Romance (1981-83). The band achieved eight top-forty hits and two hit albums and John - who played trumpet with Modern Romance - even had a song named after him: 'Who Is John Du Prez?', the b-side to the group's hit 'Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White'.John quit the band in 1984 and concentrated on composing music scores for films like the Rob Lowe vehicle, Oxford Blues (1984), Un poisson nommé Wanda (1988), and Les tortues ninja (1990). He has since collaborated with ex- Modern Romance frontman David Jaymes a number of times, most notably on the feature film Fascination (2004), and their single 'Best Years of Our Lives' featured in Shrek (2001).John is friend to Eric Idle and has worked with him on numerous Monty Python projects including Monty Python : La Vie de Brian (1979) and Monty Python, le sens de la vie (1983). He and Eric wrote and performed the song 'Really Nice Day' in the animated movie The Wild (2006).