Terry Jones
Biography
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Life of Brian
as Mandy Cohen / Colin / Simon the Holy Man / Bob Hoskins / Saintly Passer-by / Alarmed Crucifixion Assistant
1979
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
as Dennis's Mother / Sir Bedevere / Left Head / Prince Herbert / Voice of Cartoon Scribe
1975
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
as Various Roles
1983
Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report
as Self
1974
The Hidden History of Rome
as Himself
2002
The Hidden History of Egypt
as Himself
2002
Erik the Viking
as King Arnulf
1989
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
as Various Roles
1982
And Now for Something Completely Different
as 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
1971
Life Of Brian Screenplay
as Mandy Cohen, Colin, Simon the Holy Man, Bob Hoskins
2008
The Story of 1
as Él Mismo
2005
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as Self
2004
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
as Workingman / Mexican / Mountie
2010
The Wind in the Willows
as Toad
1996
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Landlady (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Le Créateur
as Dieu
1999
Is This a Record?
as Various
1973
Jabberwocky
as Poacher
1977
The Secret Life of Brian
as Self
2007
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
as Self
1976
TV Appearances
Monty Python's Flying Circus
as Various
1969
The Complete and Utter History of Britain
1969
Going Live!
as Self
1987
Monty Python's Personal Best
as Self / Various Characters
2006
Do Not Adjust Your Set
as Various Characters
1967
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Marcello
1992
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
1976
The Young Ones
as Vicar
1982
Twice a Fortnight
1967
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
2004
Terry Jones' Barbarians
2006