Not Dead Fred
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"Not Dead" Fred is a fictional character in the Broadway musical Spamalot, and the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In the film, however he is unnamed, and only credited as "Dead Body That Claims It Isn't". In the film, he is played by John Young, and in the musical, Christian Borle.
[edit] The Character in the Film and Musicial
In the film, Not Dead Fred appears in only one scene, towards the beginning. They are in a typical English village; the Black Death has ravaged the lands, and a civic cleaner is travelling through the town uncharismatically shouting "Bring out yer dead", for the villagers to put any Plague-dead bodies on a wagon with him to be carted out. In the musical, he shouts it with more enthusiasm and only two times. Another villager comes out dragging Not Dead Fred, and says to him, "here's one." Fred responds by saying "I'm not dead!" In the musical, Not Dead Fred is also seen younger than in the film. Not Dead Fred's name is only mentioned once, during the end of the song (there is no song in the film), he is seen saying "I am coming too... my name will be Sir Fred, I'll be ya' musician 'cos I'm not yet dead!" It is possible, given this lyric, that Not Dead Fred becomes Robin's leading Minstrel, as the parts are usually played by the same actor, but there is no direct evidence that the two characters are one man.
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