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
all 132
Movies 93
self 69
TV Shows 39
Writer 9
Director 7
Narrator 2
Screenplay 2
Voice 2
Creator 1
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated (2021)
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails (2019)
An Accidental Studio (2019)
Boom Bust Boom (2016)
Absolutely Anything (2015)
In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps (2015)
Monty Python Live (Mostly) (2014)
Perspectives (2011)
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan (2010)
Medieval Fightbook (2010)
Home Movie Roadshow (2010)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
King Guillaume (2009)
Skavlan (2009)
Miracles of Evolution (2008)
Life Of Brian Screenplay (2008)
Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
Anna and the Moods (2007)
Terry Jones' Barbarians (2006)
Terry Jones' Barbarians (2006)
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Terry Gilliam's Personal Best (2006)
The Story of 1 (2005)
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (2004)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3 (2004)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2 (2004)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1 (2004)
Dinotopia (2002)
The Surprising History of Egypt (2002)
Gladiators: The Brutal Truth (1999)
Ancient Inventions (1998)
Ruby (1997)
Blazing Dragons (1996)
Crusades (1995)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
L.A. Story (1991)
Erik the Viking (1989)
Personal Services (1987)
Labyrinth (1986)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
The Rupert Bear Story: A Tribute to Alfred Bestall (1982)
Wogan (1982)
The Box (1981)
Peter Cook & Co. (1980)
The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)
Life of Brian (1979)
Jabberwocky (1977)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Secrets (1973)
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1972)
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1971)
The Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969)
Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967)
Twice a Fortnight (1967)
The Land of Sometimes
Doodlez
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1942-02-01
Deathday2020-01-21 (77 years old)
Birth NameTerence Graham Parry Jones
Birth PlaceColwyn Bay, United Kingdom
SpouseAlison Telfer
ChildrenSally Louise Parry Jones, Bill Jones
FatherAlick George Parry Jones
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsTerence Graham Parry Jones , Monty Python Flying Circus, Montypython Flyingcircus, Monty Python, Terry C. Jonesberg, Terence Jonesprod, Alan Whicker
AwardsEuropean Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
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