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Terry Jones Biography and Full Filmography - MovieWise

Quick Facts

Born:
1942-02-01

Birthplace:
Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK

Credits:
130 Total Roles

Terry Jones

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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 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.

Known For

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
2026 The Land of Sometimes MOVIE The Wish Watch (voice)
2021 Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated MOVIE Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
2019 Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails MOVIE Self (archive footage)
2015 Boom Bust Boom MOVIE Self
2015 In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps MOVIE Narrator
2015 Absolutely Anything MOVIE Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver
2014 Monty Python: The Meaning of Live MOVIE Self
2014 Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) TV Self (archive footage)
2014 Monty Python Live (Mostly) MOVIE Self, others
2014 Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar MOVIE Self

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