Terry Jones

Known for ActingBorn 1942-02-01Died 2020-01-21Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK

Terence Graham Parry Jones 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 appeared in" Do Not Adjust Your Set" (1967–69) with Michael Palin; Eric Idle and David Jason. He wrote for "The Frost Report" and several other David Frost programmes.Read more

Movies & web series

Medieval Fightbook

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Graham Chapman's Personal Best

Bottom Mindless Violence

Euroshow '71: May Day Special

Whinfrey's Last Case

Escape from Stalag Luft 112B

Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails

The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1

The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2

Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute

Ruby

Tomkinson's Schooldays

A Series of Bird's

Terry Jones' Barbarians

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Ancient Inventions

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Terry Jones' Personal Best

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

Murder at Moorstones Manor

Consuming Passions

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Concert for George

Monty Python's Flying Circus—Eric Idle's Personal Best

The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life'

Crusades

The Surprising History of Sex and Love

The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Going Live!

Comic Roots: Michael Palin

Roger of the Raj

Golden Gordon

Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus

Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report

The Story of 1

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

The Young Ones

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)

The Secret Life of Brian

Life of Brian

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live

Inside the Labyrinth

The Meaning of Monty Python

Ripping Yarns

Do Not Adjust Your Set