Actor
Terry Jones
84 years · Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK · 106 films
Terence Graham Parry Jones (February 1, 1942 – January 21, 2020) 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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Best known for
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 · Dennis's Mother / Sir Bedevere / Left Head / Prince Herbert / Voice of Cartoon Scribe, Director
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Life of Brian
1979 · Mandy Cohen / Colin / Simon the Holy Man / Bob Hoskins / Saintly Passer-by / Alarmed Crucifixion Assistant, Director
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Labyrinth
1986 · Screenplay
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1983 · Various Roles, Director
On TCM
Absolutely Anything
2015 · Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver, Director
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And Now for Something Completely Different
1971 · Stage Manager / Tobacconist / 2nd Hungarian Man / Squire / Self-defence student #3 / Tenant #1 / Flasher / Mouse Organist Ken Ewing / Fat Soldier / Waiter / Nude Organist / Brian / Nigel Incubator Jones, Screenplay
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Filmography 105
The Land of Sometimes
2026 · The Wish Watch (voice)
On HBO Max
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
2021 · Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Boom Bust Boom
2015 · Self, Director
On Kanopy
In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps
2015 · Narrator
Absolutely Anything
2015 · Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver, Director
On Plex
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
2014 · Self
On Plex
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
2014 · Self, others, Writer
On Plex
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014 · Self
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014 · Self
The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything
2014 · Actor
Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
2014 · Self
The Meaning of Monty Python
2013 · Self
On Plex
Anatomy of a Liar
2012 · Self
The Secret Policeman's Ball
2012 · Self
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
2010 · Himself
Medieval Fightbook
2010 · Self - Historian
Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall
2010 · Actor
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
2010 · Workingman / Mexican / Mountie
On Plex
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release
2010 · Self
Monty Python in Aberystwyth
2009 · Self
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009 · Self
Chaucer & the Canterbury Tales
2009 · Self
King Guillaume
2009 · Le professeur d'Oxford