Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1942-02-01
Day of Death
2020-01-21
Place of Birth
Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK
Terry Jones
Biography
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.
Filmography (96)
The Land of Sometimes
2026
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
2021
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
2019
Boom Bust Boom
2015
In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps
2015
Absolutely Anything
2015
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
2014
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
2014
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything
2014
Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
2014
The Meaning of Monty Python
2013
Anatomy of a Liar
2012
