
Terry Jones
Actor
- Born
- February 1, 1942 · Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK
- Died
- January 21, 2020 (age 77)
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.
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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
Acting97
- 2026The Land of Sometimes as The Wish Watch (voice)
- 2021Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated as Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
- 2019Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails as Self (archive footage)
- 2015Boom Bust Boom as Self
- 2015In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps as Narrator
- 2015Absolutely Anything as Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver
- 2014Monty Python: The Meaning of Live as Self
- 2014Monty Python Live (Mostly) as Self, others
- 2014Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar as Self











