‘Fishy’ Catch Up the Coast

English comic actor/writer/producer JOHN CLEESE, who has been writing a film re-teaming the cast of his blockbuster 1988 comedy “A Fish Called Wanda,” and his wife, ALYCE FAYE, a psychotherapist, have bought a home in Santa Barbara.

The house, which cost a bit more than $1 million, has three bedrooms and three levels with walls and windows of glass. The lower level has an apartment in it, with access to the beach.

Star of the classic “Monty Python” and “Fawlty Towers” TV series, both of which he also co-wrote, John Cleese, who won an Emmy for a part he played in a “Cheers” episode, has small roles in the upcoming films “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” and “The Jungle Book.”

Prince Charles is expected to attend a 25th anniversary celebration of the comedy troupe Monty Python and a pre-release screening of “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” when he is in Southern California Oct. 31-Nov. 4, to attend some of the UK/LA Festival events.

Cleese, 54, is writing a film with the working title “Death Fish II.” The film is scheduled to be made in England next year with the same cast of “A Fish Called Wanda” but with different characters and a new story. Cleese was co-star, screenwriter and executive producer of “A Fish Called Wanda.”

His best-selling book in England, “Life and How to Survive It,” which he co-wrote with his former therapist, is due to be released in the United States in January. Until then, Cleese plans to stay in his main residence in West London, where he has lived for the past 17 years. He and his wife also have an apartment in Manhattan.

His wife is an American citizen, and all four of their children (her two and his two) live in the United States, according to his business manager and “Death Fish II” co-producer, Steve Abbott, who gave this as one reason why the Cleeses bought a home in Santa Barbara.

“He also fell in love with the California coastline years ago when he drove it, and then when they (recently) stayed overnight in Santa Barbara, they walked on the beach and fell in love with the house. . . . It was a quick decision based on a long-time plan,” Abbott said.

Janice Seibert, who represented the Cleeses in buying the Santa Barbara house, said, “They thought they’d be here in September, but he has been working hard in London, so they probably won’t be here again until January.”

Seibert was with Fred Sands Realtors when she made the sale but subsequently established her own firm, Ocean View Real Estate, in Santa Barbara.

L.A. Kings President BRUCE McNALL’S Holmby Hills home, which has nearly $20 million in loans and judgments against it, has been put on the market at $5.59 million.

The sports entrepreneur, who entered bankruptcy proceedings in May and agreed to plead guilty to four criminal counts stemming from a federal bank fraud investigation, paid about $7 million for the home in 1982.

Built in 1937 and gutted and rebuilt in the 1980s, the home, which is on 1.5 acres, is about 10,000 square feet in size, with five bedrooms and eight baths. It also has a tennis court and an entertainment center, off the garden below the house.

McNall, credited with turning Southern California onto professional ice hockey, was sole owner of the Kings from 1988 until May, when he was forced to sell a 72% interest in the team because of financial problems that led to his filing for protection from creditors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, where his house will be sold, sources say.

Country singer GLEN CAMPBELL’S former Hollywood Hills home, owned by the estate of his ex-wife--the late B. J. Campbell, has been sold for about $2.8 million, according to public records. The home was for sale in early 1992 at $10 million.

The 15,000-square-foot home was built by the Campbells in the early 1970s, shortly before they were divorced. It has 10 bedrooms and a tennis court, all on 6.5 acres overlooking Beverly Hills and the San Fernando Valley.

The buyers, two doctors, were represented by Sandy Walton and Margie Burrows, both of Fred Sands’ Studio City office.

Veteran actor ALVY MOORE, best known for his role as county agent Hank Kimball on the long-running TV sitcom “Green Acres” and his wife, Carolyn, have sold their home in Northridge for close to its last asking price of about $350,000, sources say.

The Moores, who have relocated to their Palm Desert home, had lived in the four-bedroom home since 1962, one year after it was built.

The house had suffered some earthquake damage, but the Moores had fixed it up, said Fred Sabine, who had shared the listing with Linda Sabine, both of Prudential California Realty’s Northridge office. The buyers were described as “a young couple with a couple of kids.”