Terry Jones

About

Terence Graham Parry Jones (February 1, 1942 – January 21, 2020) was a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team. At the age of 4, the Jones family moved to Surrey in England. Jones attended primary school at Esher COE school and later attended the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he was school captain in the 1960-61 academic year. He later read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, but "strayed into history". While there, he performed comedy with future Monty Python cast-mate Michael Palin in The Oxford Revue. Jones appeared in the comedy TV series "Twice a Fortnight" with Michael Palin; Graeme Garden; Bill Oddie and Jonathan Lynn, as well as the television series |"The Complete and Utter History of Britain" (1969). He...

Known for

OmnibusSeries • 1967The Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesSeries • 1992Monty Python's Flying CircusSeries • 1969The Young OnesSeries • 1982Life of BrianMovie • 1979Monty Python and the Holy GrailMovie • 1975The Two RonniesSeries • 1971LabyrinthMovie • 1986DinotopiaSeries • 2002Monty Python's The Meaning of LifeMovie • 1983Erik the VikingMovie • 1989Absolutely AnythingMovie • 2015Ripping YarnsSeries • 1976JabberwockyMovie • 1977And Now for Something Completely DifferentMovie • 1971L.A. StoryMovie • 1991Le CréateurMovie • 1999The Wind in the WillowsMovie • 1996Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)Movie • 2010Monty Python Live at the Hollywood BowlMovie • 1982Personal ServicesMovie • 1987Monty Python Live (Mostly)Movie • 2014Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty PythonMovie • 1989Locked OutMovie • 2006