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Terry Jones
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.
As director
As actor
The Land of Sometimes
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
Absolutely Anything
Boom Bust Boom
In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything
Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
The Meaning of Monty Python
Anatomy of a Liar
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
Medieval Fightbook
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
King Guillaume
Monty Python in Aberystwyth
Chaucer & the Canterbury Tales
Life Of Brian Screenplay
Penguins April Fool - The Making of
The Seventh Python
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
Monty Python Conquers America
Miracles of Evolution