Terry Jones

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.

11 TV shows

TV Shows

Other Credits

The Complete and Utter History of Britain, Monty Python's Personal Best, Do Not Adjust Your Set, The Secret Policeman's Ball, Twice a Fortnight, Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, Terry Jones' Barbarians, Omnibus Presents Comic Relief, The Legend of Dick and Dom, 8:15 from Manchester, Ancient Inventions, Wogan, Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut), Crusades, Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, Ripping Yarns, Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days, Ruby, Perspectives, Dinotopia, Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly), Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery, Friday Night, Saturday Morning