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.
Filmography (132 titles)
6.2MovieThe Land of Sometimes
The Wish Watch (voice) · 2026
MovieMonty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
Self (archive footage)(uncredited) · 2021
9.0MoviePython at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
Self (archive footage) · 2019
7.2MovieBoom Bust Boom
Self · 2015
MovieIn Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps
Narrator · 2015
5.9MovieAbsolutely Anything
Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver · 2015
7.4MovieMonty Python: The Meaning of Live
Self · 2014
2.0ShowMonty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
Self (archive footage) · 2014
7.1MovieMonty Python Live (Mostly)
Self, others · 2014
6.0MovieMonty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
Self · 2014
8.0Movie50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Self · 2014
MovieThe New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything
2014
MovieAlexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
Self · 2014
7.4MovieThe Meaning of Monty Python
Self · 2013
6.0MovieAnatomy of a Liar
Self · 2012
7.6MovieThe Secret Policeman's Ball
Self · 2012
ShowPerspectives
Himself · 2011
MovieThe Unforgettable Spike Milligan
Himself · 2010
10.0MovieMedieval Fightbook
Self - Historian · 2010
MovieNot The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall
2010
7.0MovieNot the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
Workingman / Mexican / Mountie · 2010
MovieMonty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release
Self · 2010
7.6ShowMonty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
Self · 2009
MovieMonty Python in Aberystwyth
Self · 2009
8.4MovieFawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Self · 2009
MovieChaucer & the Canterbury Tales
Self · 2009
4.5MovieKing Guillaume
Le professeur d'Oxford · 2009
5.0ShowSkavlan
Self - Guest · 2009
6.5ShowThe Legend of Dick and Dom
2009
7.7MovieMonty Python: Before the Flying Circus
Self · 2008