John Sessions
(1953-2020), Actor, comedian and screenwriterJohn Sessions (John Gibb Marshall)
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A talented mimic and improviser, Sessions was also an accomplished actor. His career as a comedian began in the early 1980s. Well known for his surreal monologues, he became famous through the television programme Whose Line Is It Anyway? He had several of his own television shows and was a regular on quiz shows including Have I Got News For You and QI. Sessions co-wrote and starred in the television series Stella Street and, for cinema, Stella Street: 'The Movie' (2004).
by Steve Speller
cibachrome print, 27 October 1988
NPG x34606
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