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.
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Movies (43)
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
as Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
2021
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Boom Bust Boom
as Self
2015
In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps
as Narrator
2015
Absolutely Anything
as Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver
2015
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
as Self
2014
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
as Self, others
2014
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
as Self
2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
2014
The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything
2014
Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
as Self
2014
The Meaning of Monty Python
as Self
2013
Anatomy of a Liar
as Self
2012
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
2012
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
as Himself
2010
Medieval Fightbook
as Self - Historian
2010
Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall
2010
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
as Workingman / Mexican / Mountie
2010
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release
as Self
2010
Stories from East of the Moon
Story (Writing)
2010
Monty Python in Aberystwyth
as Self
2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self
2009
Chaucer & the Canterbury Tales
as Self
2009
King Guillaume
as Le professeur d'Oxford
2009
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
as Self
2008
The Seventh Python
as Self
2008
Penguins April Fool - The Making of
2008
Miracles of Evolution
as (presenter)
2008
Life Of Brian Screenplay
as Mandy Cohen, Colin, Simon the Holy Man, Bob Hoskins
2008
Monty Python Conquers America
as Self
2008
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Landlady (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Anna and the Moods
as Narrator (voice)
2007
The Secret Life of Brian
as Self
2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Terry Jones' Barbarians
as Presenter
2006
Locked Out
as Un SDF
2006
Monty Python's Flying Circus—John Cleese's Personal Best
as Various Characters
2006
Monty Python's Flying Circus—Michael Palin's Personal Best
as Various Characters
2006
Monty Python's Flying Circus—Terry Gilliam's Personal Best
as Various Characters
2006
Monty Python's Flying Circus—Terry Jones' Personal Best
as Various Characters
2006
Monty Python's Flying Circus—Graham Chapman's Personal Best
as Various Characters
2006
Monty Python's Flying Circus—Eric Idle's Personal Best
as Various Characters
2006
Monty Python's Flying Circus—Graham Chapman's Personal Best
as Various Characters
2006
