Terence Graham Parry Jones was a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director, historian, and a member of the Monty Python comedy team. He made his directorial debut with the Python film, Holy Grail, which he co-directed with Terry Gilliam. Jones co-created and co-wrote with Michael Palin the anthology series Ripping Yarns. He also wrote an early draft of Jim Henson’s film Labyrinth.
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Terence Graham Parry Jones was a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director, historian, and a member of the Monty Python comedy team. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes. He was largely responsible for the programme’s innovative, surreal structure, in which sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punchlines. He made his directorial debut with the Python film, Holy Grail, which he co-directed with Terry Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python films Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. Jones co-created and co-wrote with Palin the anthology series Ripping Yarns. He also wrote an early draft of Jim Henson’s film Labyrinth, though little of his work remained in the final cut. In 2016, Jones received a Lifetime Achievement award at the BAFTA Cymru Awards for his outstanding contribution to television and film. After living for several years with a degenerative aphasia, he gradually lost the ability to speak and died in 2020 from frontotemporal dementia. Jones was also a well-respected medieval historian, having written several books and presented television documentaries about the period, as well as a prolific children’s book author.
His later films include Erik the Viking and The Wind in the Willows. In 2008, Jones wrote the libretto for The Doctor’s Tale of The Evil Machines, and directed the opera. In 2011, he was commissioned to direct and write a film about a disillusioned schoolteacher who is given the chance to do anything he wishes by a group of space aliens. The film features Robin Williams, Kate Beckinsale, Robin Pegg, Kate Williams, Robin Williams and Kate Williams. Jones directed the 2015 film Absolutely Anything, about a school teacher who is disillusioned by the schoolteachers he has been sent to teach. He died in a hospice in Wales in 2020. He is buried in Colwyn Bay, on the north coast of Wales, where he was born in the seaside town of Colwynbay. He had a brother, Nigel, two years his senior, who was a bank clerk. Jones appeared in Twice a Fortnight with Michael Palin, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Jonathan Lynn, aswell as the television series The Complete and Utter History of Britain. He appeared in Do Not Adjust Your Set with Palin, Eric Idle and David Jason.
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