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Terry Jones

Terry Jones

Birthday: 1942-02-01 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2016
Boom Bust Boom

as    Self

2015
In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps

as    Narrator

2014
2014
2014
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)

as    Self (archive footage)

2014
Monty Python Live (Mostly)

as    Self, others

2013
2012
Anatomy of a Liar

as    Self

2010
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)

as    Workingman / Mexican / Mountie

2009
2008
Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery

as    Presenter

2008
The Seventh Python

as    Self

2008
2007
Anna and the Moods

as    Narrator (voice)

2007
The Secret Life of Brian

as    Self

2006
Terry Jones' Barbarians

as    Presenter

2006
Monty Python's Personal Best

as    Self / Various Characters

2005
The Roots of Monty Python

as    Self (archive footage)

2005
The Story of 1

as    Él Mismo