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.
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A behind-the-scenes look at Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film, 'Labyrinth', featuring David Bowie and J...
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Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become th...
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Steve Martin presents selected sketches from "Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)". It's the well kn...
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With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an Engl...
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Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved To...
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In March 1998 in Aspen, Colorado, the surviving members of the Monty Python team – John Cleese, Terr...
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Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes in Barcelona, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and nar...
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A documentary with Terry Jones and Michael Palin travelling to the locations of "Monty Python and Ho...
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The Surprising History of Sex and Love is a documentary presented by Terry Jones, looking at the dif...
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The behind-the-scenes production documentary of Monty Python's 'Meaning Of Life.' This documentary ...
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Discover how six seemingly ordinary but supremely talented men became Monty Python, sketch comedy's ...
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30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of th...
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Follow the close analysis of an ancient fight master's manuscript depicting combat techniques and de...
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Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a comic oratorio based on Monty Python's Life of Brian,...
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A documentary about A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman....
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With unprecedented access, this program reveals the humour, chaos and passion that went into bringin...
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| 1 | Boom Bust Boom (2015) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 2 | Absolutely Anything (2015) | Director / Writer | 6.7 | |
| 3 | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live (2014) | Self | - | - |
| 4 | Monty Python Live (Mostly) (2014) | Director / Writer | 7.7 | |
| 5 | Anatomy of a Liar (2012) | Self | - | - |
| 6 | The Secret Policeman's Ball (2012) | Self | - | - |
| 7 | Medieval Fightbook (2010) | Self - Historian | 7 | |
| 8 | Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) (2010) | Workingman / Mexican / Mountie | 6 | |
| 9 | Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened (2009) | Self | - | - |
| 10 | Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus (2008) | Self | - | - |
| 11 | The Secret Life of Brian (2007) | Self | - | - |
| 12 | The Roots of Monty Python (2005) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 13 | The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life' (2003) | Self | 10 | |
| 14 | Concert for George (2003) | Self | 9 | |
| 15 | The Surprising History of Sex and Love (2002) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 16 | The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations (2001) | Self | - | - |
| 17 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades (2000) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 18 | Monty Python: Live at Aspen (1998) | Self | - | - |
| 19 | The Wind in the Willows (1996) | Director / Writer | 9 | |
| 20 | L.A. Story (1991) | Sara's Mother (voice) (uncredited) | 7.5 | |
| 21 | Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python (1989) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 22 | Erik the Viking (1989) | Director / Writer | 6.5 | |
| 23 | Personal Services (1987) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 24 | Inside the Labyrinth (1986) | Self | - | - |
| 25 | Labyrinth (1986) | Director / Writer | 7.8 | |
| 26 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) | Director / Writer | 7.5 | |
| 27 | The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983) | Window Cleaner / Bert (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 28 | Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 29 | The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979 (1979) | Self | - | - |
| 30 | Life of Brian (1979) | Director / Writer | 8.1 | |
| 31 | Jabberwocky (1977) | Poacher | 6.3 | |
| 32 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Director / Writer | 7.9 | |
| 33 | And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) | Director / Writer | 6.5 | |
| 34 | Euroshow '71: May Day Special (1971) | Various (as Montypython Flyingcircus) | - | - |

