10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Monty Python And The Holy Grail

10. "God" Is Actually An English Cricket Player

Part of the appeal with the Monty Python property were the amazing animations produced by Terry Gilliam. This incredibly talented filmmaker was a master at making strange and wacky cartoons that seemed to reveal the inner workings of the mind he possessed. Even to this day, the strangeness of Gilliam remains, with the filmmaker still actively creating content, but one of his best has to be bringing the face of God to screen.

God gives the knights a task to retrieve the Holy Grail, and this is a significant plot point of the film. So, it was important for the depiction of the deity to be well done. Thankfully his appearance was entirely appropriate, but it wasn't altogether creative licence that brought him to the screen.

The face used to depict God is actually that of the 19th-century English Cricketer W.G. Grace, who seemed to have the perfect beard and look for the important figure. Gilliam used a photograph of the sportsman and animated it appropriately, adding Graham Chapman's voice to bring it to life.

So God doesn't have a face - it's just a model.