What did Graham Chapman (of the Monty Python team) die from?

Answer 1

Graham Chapman died of cancer of the throat. He died on October 4, 1989, just one day before Monty Python's 20th anniversary (as Terry Jones put it, making it one of the worst cases of party pooping ever)

The rumours of him contracting AIDS are completely false (probably arising from the utterly stupid notion that dead + homosexual = AIDS). During a long and tedious debate on the alt.fan.monty-python newsgroup four or five years ago, a Python fan in London went down to the Public Records Office, got a copy of Chapman’s Death Certificate and posted it.

The primary cause of death listed was cancer of the larynx (throat) with secondary cancers elsewhere, including the liver. Death certificates in the UK are required by law to state both the primary and secondary causes of death - in the case of Graham, he died of pneumonia as a result of cancer of the larynx, which had spread to many other sites, including the liver.

Answer 2

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What did Graham Chapman (of the Monty Python team) die from?

Answer 3

Actor, writer, director, comedian and licensed physician Graham Chapman, a co-founder of Great Britain’s Monty Python’s Flying Circus, died October 4th, 1989 at the age of 47. Chapman had battled advanced throat cancer for a year before his death.

Answer 4

I can't better Cardinal Fang's answer but still miss Chapman enormously.

Answer 5

He was an alcoholic, and a heavy smoker, and died from cancer.
It certainly wasn't AIDS, although he was openly gay.

Answer 6

It was throat cancer. It really gets to me that people assume it was aids just because he was gay.

Answer 7

He was very gay and my hunch is it was aids.He died in the early days of this problem being about. Did you know he was a doctor?

Answer 8

I beleive it was cancer.

Answer 9

He died from AIDS.