Terry Jones
Acting · 77 years old
Colwyn 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.
Known For
Monty Python's Flying Circus—Graham Chapman's Personal Best
Various Characters
Medieval Fightbook
Self - Historian
Tomkinson's Schooldays
Mr. Ellis / Bear / Mr. Moodie / Director
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
Self (archive footage)
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
Self (archive footage)
Terry Jones' Barbarians
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Self
Monty Python's Flying Circus—Terry Jones' Personal Best
Various Characters
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Various
Concert for George
Self
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
The Surprising History of Sex and Love
Himself
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Self
The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life'
Self
Monty Python's Flying Circus—Eric Idle's Personal Best
Various Characters
Ancient Inventions
Himself - Host
Crusades
Himself / Presenter
The Young Ones
Vicar
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dennis's Mother / Sir Bedevere / Left Head / Prince Herbert / Voice of Cartoon Scribe
Behind the Scenes
Escape from Stalag Luft 112B
Writer
Whinfrey's Last Case
Writer
Tomkinson's Schooldays
Writer
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Writer
Murder at Moorstones Manor
Writer
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Writer
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Writer
The Surprising History of Sex and Love
Writer
Roger of the Raj
Writer
Golden Gordon
Writer
Ancient Inventions
Writer
Crusades
Writer