Terry Jones

Overview

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Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Feb 01, 1942 (83 years old)
Death date
Jan 21, 2020

Terry Jones

Known For

Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
0h 58m
Movie 2021

Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated

Monty Python’s influence on comedy has been compared to the Beatles’ influence on music, a pivotal moment in the evolution of television humor. Celebrating the cultural legacy and influence of the troupe, this special pairs their original material with new and entertaining commentary from celebrities who consider Monty Python hugely significant, both personally and to the history of screen satire. Celebrity humorists discuss, laugh, and reminisce about various Python segments and bring a fresh perspective to the material, connecting Monty Python’s work to today’s most successful television humor. In a time when a few moments of escape and laughter couldn’t be more sought after, this special reminds viewers of Python’s cultural impact, and that PBS introduced them to American viewers.

Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
0h 59m
Movie 2019

Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails

From ‘something completely different’ to icons of comedy and national treasures, this is a collection of rarely-seen Monty Python moments from the BBC archives, following the group’s encounters with ‘Auntie’ over the past 50 years.

Boom Bust Boom
1h 10m
Movie 2015

Boom Bust Boom

Terry Jones presents Boom Bust Boom. The result of a meeting between writer, director, historian and Python Terry Jones and economics professor and entrepreneur Theo Kocken. Co-written by Jones and Kocken and featuring John Cusack, Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J Shiller and Paul Krugman, the film is part of a global movement to change the economic system through education to protect the world from boom and bust. A unique look at why economic crashes happen, Boom Bust Boom is a multimedia documentary combining live action with animation and puppetry to explain economics to everyone.

In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps
0h 48m
Movie 2015

In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps

Charlie Chaplin was at one time the most famous person in the world. His creation – the little tramp – was a universal figure adored by millions across the globe. He took crude, knockabout, slapstick comedy and transformed it into an art form with films that have stood the test of time. Terry Jones, comedian, writer and director, best known for being a leading member of Monty Python and long-time fan of silent comedies, offers a personal re-appraisal of the man who changed the face of film comedy.With access to a wealth of home movie material, Terry Jones also looks at the troubled private life of Chaplin: his loves, his politics, and his obsessions. He talks to Chaplin family members and biographers in his quest to get inside the skin of one of the true giants of film and comedy…

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
1h 36m
Movie 2014

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live

With unprecedented access, this program reveals the humour, chaos and passion that went into bringing the Flying Circus to the stage cumulating in the legendary One Down, Five To Go.

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
TV Show 2014

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)

This series is presented by self-confessed Python nut Hugh Bonneville, each show with a group of five famous comedians remembering their favourite Python moments. Each guest chooses a sketch (or two) and it's played with their comments..

Monty Python Live (Mostly)
2h 18m
Movie 2014

Monty Python Live (Mostly)

Celebrate the last night of the Pythons on the big screen! - With John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
1h 30m
Movie 2014

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

Alan Yentob meets the five surviving members of Monty Python - John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle - as they prepare to reunite on stage.

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2h 0m
Movie 2014

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.

The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything
0h 52m
Movie 2014

The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything

Terry Jones and Michael Palin revisit their "pre-Python" sketch show from 1969 which has sadly been wiped by the BBC. At the time, in 2014, only 2 episodes were known to exist. Palin and Jones re-shot wrap-arounds and aired remaining sketches from the show, taken from Jones' own private collection. In October 2023, the remaining episodes have been found.

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.

Acting

2021
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
2019
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
2015
Boom Bust Boom
2015
In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps
2014
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
2014
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
2014
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
2014
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
The New Incomplete And Utter History Of Everything
2014
Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
2013
The Meaning of Monty Python
2012
The Secret Policeman's Ball
2010
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
2010
Medieval Fightbook
2010
Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall
2010
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release
2009
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
2009
Monty Python in Aberystwyth
2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
Chaucer & the Canterbury Tales
2009
King Guillaume
2009
The Legend of Dick and Dom
2008
Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery
2008
Penguins April Fool - The Making of
2008
Miracles of Evolution
2008
Monty Python Conquers America
2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
2006
The South Bank Show: Spamalot
2006
Terry Jones' Barbarians
2006
Terry Jones' Barbarians
2006
Locked Out
2006
Monty Python's Personal Best
2004
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
2002
Dinotopia
1998
Ancient Inventions
1998
Monty Python: Live at Aspen
1996
The Wind in the Willows
1995
Crusades
1990
Life of Python
1989
Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
1988
Scarfe's Follies
1986
That's Television Television
1986
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986
Comedians Do It On Stage

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