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Terry Jones
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 commenta…
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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. 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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2026
The Land of Sometimes
Movie The Wish Watch (voice)
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2021
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
Movie Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
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2019
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Boom Bust Boom
Movie Self
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2015
In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps
Movie Narrator
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2015
Absolutely Anything
Movie Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver
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2014
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
Movie Self
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2014
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2014
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Movie Self, others
- 2014
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2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Movie Self
- 2014
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2014
Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
Movie Self
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2013
The Meaning of Monty Python
Movie Self
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2012
Anatomy of a Liar
Movie Self
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2012
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Movie Self
More credits
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2011
Perspectives
TV show Himself
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2010
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
Movie Himself
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2010
Medieval Fightbook
Movie Self - Historian
- 2010
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2010
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
Movie Workingman / Mexican / Mountie
- 2010
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2010
Stories from East of the Moon
Movie Story
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2009
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
TV show Self
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2009
Monty Python in Aberystwyth
Movie Self
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2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Movie Self
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2009
Chaucer & the Canterbury Tales
Movie Self
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2009
King Guillaume
Movie Le professeur d'Oxford
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2009
Skavlan
TV show Self - Guest
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2009
The Legend of Dick and Dom
TV show
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2008
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
Movie Self
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2008
The Seventh Python
Movie Self
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2008
Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery
TV show Presenter
- 2008
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2008
Miracles of Evolution
Movie (presenter)
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2008
Life Of Brian Screenplay
Movie Mandy Cohen, Colin, Simon the Holy Man, Bob Hoskins
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2008
Monty Python Conquers America
Movie Self
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2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Movie Landlady (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2007
Anna and the Moods
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2007
The Secret Life of Brian
Movie Self
