Terry Jones

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-02-01 (78 years old)

Deathday

2020-01-21

Place of Birth

Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK

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 a...

Acting

1979

Life of Brian

as Mandy Cohen / Colin / Simon the Holy Man / Bob Hoskins / Saintly Passer-by / Alarmed Crucifixion Assistant

1975

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

as Dennis's Mother / Sir Bedevere / Left Head / Prince Herbert / Voice of Cartoon Scribe

1989

Erik the Viking

as King Arnulf

1971

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

2008

Life Of Brian Screenplay

as Mandy Cohen, Colin, Simon the Holy Man, Bob Hoskins

2005

The Story of 1

as Él Mismo

2010

Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)

as Workingman / Mexican / Mountie

2007

Hitler: The Comedy Years

as Landlady (archive footage) (uncredited)

1999

1973

1977

Jabberwocky

as Poacher

1979

The Secret Policeman's Ball

as Himself - Various Roles

2007

Anna and the Moods

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Absolutely Anything

as Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver

1990

Life of Python

as Self / Various Roles

1981

The Box

as Harrington

2014

1983

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

as Window Cleaner / Bert (uncredited)

1971

Euroshow '71: May Day Special

as Various (as Montypython Flyingcircus)

1991

L.A. Story

as Sara's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

2009

King Guillaume

as Le professeur d'Oxford

1976

Tomkinson's Schooldays

as Mr. Ellis / Bear / Mr. Moodie / Director

2006

Locked Out

as Un SDF

2005

The Roots of Monty Python

as Self (archive footage)

2007

What the Pythons Did Next...

as Self (archive footage)

1980

Peter Cook & Co.

as Various Characters

2006

1974

2015

2019

-

The Land of Sometimes

as The Wish Watch (voice)

2008

Miracles of Evolution

as (presenter)

1977

2021

Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated

as Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

2010

Medieval Fightbook

as Self - Historian

Production

1979

Life of Brian

as Screenplay

1979

Life of Brian

as Director

1989

Erik the Viking

as Director

1989

Erik the Viking

as Screenplay

1986

Labyrinth

as Screenplay

1987

1996

2015

1981

The Box

as Screenplay

1973

Secrets

as Writer

2015

1988

Consuming Passions

as Theatre Play

1973

Is This a Record?

as Additional Writing

2015

Boom Bust Boom

as Director

2008

1979

1979

Golden Gordon

as Writer

2015

Boom Bust Boom

as Co-Writer

1977

1977

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