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Terry Jones
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Terry Jones was a Welsh performer and creative who worked as an actor, comedian, director, historian, and writer during his lifetime (1942–2020). He is remembered for his versatile contributions to entertainment and the arts across multiple disciplines.
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Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK
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…
Known for
- The Land of Sometimes — The Wish Watch (voice)2026
- Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated — Self (archive footage)(uncredited)2021
- Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails — Self (archive footage)2019
- Absolutely Anything — Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver2015
- Boom Bust Boom — Self2015
- In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps — Narrator2015
- Monty Python Live (Mostly) — Self, others2014
- 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy — Self2014
- Monty Python: The Meaning of Live — Self2014
- The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything2014
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jones
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Colwyn Bay
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Welsh
- Notable work
- Absolutely Anything
- Official website
- www.terry-jones.net
- Image
- Terry Jones in 2007.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of birth
- 1942-02-01
- Commons category
- Terry Jones
- name in native language
- Terry Jones
- related category
- Category:Films with screenplays by Terry Jones
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
- date of death
- 2020-01-21
- end of work period
- 2016-00-00
- birth name
- Terence Graham Parry Jones
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Monty Python
- cause of death
- frontotemporal dementia
- social media followers
- 247110
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Encyclopedic overview
Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes, including Do Not Adjust Your Set and The Frost Report, before creating Monty Python's Flying Circus with Cambridge graduates Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle, and American animator-filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Jones was largely responsible for the programme's innovative, surreal structure, in which sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punch lines. He made his directorial debut with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which he co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python films Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. His other directorial credits include Personal Services and The Wind in the Willows.
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