Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January

Terry Jones
2020)[1][2][3] was a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter,
film director and historian. He was a member of the Monty
Python comedy team.

After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in

English, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin (whom he met
at Oxford) wrote and performed for several high-profile British
comedy programmes, including Do Not Adjust Your Set and The
Frost Report, before creating Monty Python's Flying Circus with
Cambridge graduates Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham
Chapman, and American animator/filmmaker Terry Gilliam.
Jones 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 Jones in 2014
the team's first film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which he
Born Terence Graham
co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python
Parry Jones
films Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.
1 February 1942
Jones co-created and co-wrote with Palin the anthology series Colwyn Bay,
Ripping Yarns. He also wrote an early draft of Jim Henson's 1986 Denbighshire, Wales
film Labyrinth, though little of his work remained in the final cut. Died 21 January 2020
Jones was a well-respected medieval historian, having written (aged 77)
several books and presented television documentaries about the Highgate, London,
period, as well as a prolific children's book author. England
Alma mater St Edmund Hall,
In 2016, Jones received a Lifetime Achievement award at the
Oxford
BAFTA Cymru Awards for his outstanding contribution to
Occupation Actor · writer ·
television and film. After living for several years with a
comedian · film
degenerative aphasia, he gradually lost the ability to speak and
director · presenter ·
died on 21 January 2020.[2]
poet · historian ·
author
Years active 1966–2014
Contents Known for Monty Python
Early life Spouse(s) Alison Telfer
Career history (m. 1970; div. 2012)
Before Python and early Python Anna Söderström
(m. 2012; his
Directorial work death 2020)
Writer
Children 3
Comedy
Screenplays
History
Column writing
 Poetry
Work with musicians
As performer
Personal life
Marriages
Political views
Health and death
Selected bibliography
Fiction
Non-fiction
Filmography
Television
Film
Documentary series
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Early life
Jones was born in the seaside town of Colwyn Bay, on the north coast of Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa
(Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk.[2][4] The family home was named
Bodchwil. His father was stationed with the RAF in India. When Jones was four-and-a-half, the family
moved to Surrey, England.[5]

Jones attended Esher COE primary school, followed by the Royal Grammar School[6] in Guildford,
where he was school captain in the 1960–61 academic year. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford,
but "strayed into history".[7][8] He became interested in the medieval period through reading Chaucer as
part of his English degree.[9] He graduated with a 2:1.[10] While there, he performed comedy with future
Monty Python castmate Michael Palin in the Oxford Revue. Jones was a year ahead of Palin at Oxford,
and on first meeting him Palin states, "The first thing that struck me was what a nice bloke he was. He
had no airs and graces. We had a similar idea of what humour could do and where it should go, mainly
because we both liked characters; we both appreciated that comedy wasn't just jokes."[11]

Career history

Before Python and early Python

Jones appeared in 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 Palin, Eric Idle and David Jason. He wrote for The Frost Report and
several other David Frost programmes on British television.[12][13] Of Jones' contributions as a performer
to Monty Python's Flying Circus, his depictions of middle-
aged women (or "ratbag old women" as termed by the
BBC, also known as "pepper-pots") are among the most
memorable.[14]

Directorial work
Jones co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with
Terry Gilliam, and was sole director on two further Monty
Python movies, Life of Brian and Monty Python's The
Meaning of Life. As a film director, Jones finally gained Jones performing “The Spanish Inquisition”
fuller control of the projects and devised a visual style that sketch in 2014. He plays Cardinal Biggles
complemented the humour. His later films include Erik the (who resembles his namesake Biggles in
wearing a leather aviator's helmet and
Viking (1989) and The Wind in the Willows (1996). In 2008,
goggles). The sketch was first broadcast 22
Jones wrote the libretto for and directed the opera Evil September 1970
Machines.[15] In 2011, he was commissioned to direct and
write the libretto for another opera, entitled The Doctor's
Tale.[16]

Three of the films which Jones directed—The Meaning of Life, Monty Python's Life of Brian and
Personal Services—were banned in Ireland.[17]

Jones directed the 2015 comedy film Absolutely Anything, about a disillusioned schoolteacher who is
given the chance to do anything he wishes by a group of aliens watching from space.[18] The film
features Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Robin Williams and the voices of the five remaining members of
Monty Python. It was filmed in London during a six-week shoot.[19]

Writer
Jones wrote many books and screenplays, including comic works
and more serious writing on medieval history.[20][21]

Comedy
Jones co-wrote Ripping Yarns with Palin. They also wrote a play,
Underwood's Finest Hour, about an obstetrician distracted during
a birth by the radio broadcast of a Test match, which played at the
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1981.[22] Jones also wrote
numerous works for children, including Fantastic Stories, The
Beast with a Thousand Teeth, and a collection of comic verse Jones reading in 2007
called The Curse of the Vampire's Socks.[23][24]

Jones was the co-creator (with Gavin Scott) of the animated TV series Blazing Dragons (1996–1998),
which parodied the Arthurian legends and Middle Ages periods. Reversing a common story convention,
the series' protagonists are anthropomorphic dragons beset by evil humans.[23][24]

Screenplays
Jones wrote the screenplay for Labyrinth (1986), although his draft went through several rewrites and
several other writers before being filmed; consequently, much of the finished film was not actually
written by Jones.[25]

History
Jones wrote books and presented television documentaries on medieval
"[you] speak to him on
and ancient history. His first book was Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait subjects as diverse as fossil
of a Medieval Mercenary (1980), which offers an alternative take on fuels, or Rupert Bear, or
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale. Chaucer's knight is often mercenaries in the Middle
interpreted as a paragon of Christian virtue, but Jones asserts that if one Ages or Modern China ... in a
moment you will find yourself
studies historical accounts of the battles the knight claims he was hopelessly out of your depth,
involved in, he can be interpreted as a typical mercenary and a floored by his knowledge."
potentially cold-blooded killer. He also co-wrote Who Murdered —Python biographer
Chaucer? (2003) in which he argues that Chaucer was close to King George Perry on
Richard II, and that after Richard was deposed, Chaucer was persecuted
Jones.[26]
to death by Thomas Arundel.[27]

Jones' TV series also frequently challenge popular views of history. For

example, Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (2004; for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for
"Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming")[28] he argues that the Middle Ages was a more
sophisticated period than is popularly thought,[29] and Terry Jones' Barbarians (2006) presents the
cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman
historians typically have, attributing the Sack of Rome in 410 AD to propaganda.[30]

Column writing
Jones wrote numerous columns for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer condemning
the Iraq War. Many of these editorials were published in a paperback collection titled Terry Jones's War
on the War on Terror.[21][31]

In November 2011, his book Evil Machines was launched by the online publishing house Unbound at the
Adam Street Club in London. It was the first book to be published by a crowdfunding website dedicated
solely to books.[32] Jones provided significant support to Unbound as they developed their publishing
concept. In February 2018, Jones released The Tyrant and the Squire, also with Unbound.[33][34]

Poetry
Jones was a member of the Poetry Society, and his poems have appeared in Poetry Review.[35]

Work with musicians

Jones performed with the Carnival Band and appears on their 2007 CD Ringing the Changes.[36][37]

In January 2008, the Teatro São Luiz, in Lisbon, Portugal, premiered Evil Machines – a musical play,
written by Jones (based on his book), with original music by Portuguese composer Luis Tinoco. Jones
was invited by the Teatro São Luiz to write and direct the play, after a successful run of Contos
Fantásticos, a short play based on Jones' Fantastic Stories, also with music by Tinoco.[38]
In January 2012 Jones announced that he was working with songwriter/producer Jim Steinman on a
heavy metal version of The Nutcracker.[39]

As performer
Apart from a cameo in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky and a minor
role as a drunken vicar in the BBC sitcom The Young Ones, Jones
rarely appeared in work outside his own projects. From 2009 to
2011, however, he provided narration for The Legend of Dick and
Dom, a CBBC fantasy series set in the Middle Ages. He also
appears in two French films by Albert Dupontel: Le Créateur
(1999) and Enfermés dehors (2006).[40][41]

In 2009, Jones took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming

Jones (right) behind the counter
Home about his Welsh family history. In July 2014, Jones during the “Spam sketch” at Monty
reunited with the other four living Pythons to perform at ten dates Python Live (Mostly) in 2014. He
(Monty Python Live (Mostly)) at the O2 Arena in London. This plays a waitress who recites a menu
was Jones' last performance with the group prior to his aphasia in which nearly every dish contains
diagnosis.[42][43] Spam

In October 2016, Jones received a standing ovation at the BAFTA

Cymru Awards when he received a Lifetime Achievement award for his outstanding contribution to
television and film.[44][45]

Personal life

Marriages
Jones married Alison Telfer in 1970, and they had two children together, Sally (born 1974) and Bill (born
1976). They had an open marriage.[46] In 2009, Jones left her for Anna Söderström, who was 41 years his
junior and with whom he had been in a relationship for five years.[47] In September 2009 a daughter was
born to Söderström and Jones;[48] they got married in 2012.[2]

Political views
Jones published a number of articles on political and social commentary, principally in newspapers The
Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent and The Observer. Many of these articles criticised the
War on Terror, belittling it as "declaring war on an abstract noun" and comparing it to attempting to
"annihilate mockery".[49]

In August 2014, Jones was one of 200 public figures who signed a letter to The Guardian expressing
their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on
that issue.[50]

Health and death

In 2015, Jones was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of frontotemporal dementia that
impairs the ability to speak and communicate. He had first given cause for concern during the Monty
Python reunion show Monty Python Live (Mostly) in July 2014 because of difficulties learning his
lines.[51] He became a campaigner for awareness of, and fundraiser for research into, dementia.[2] By
September 2016, he was no longer able to give interviews.[52] By April 2017, Jones had lost the ability to
say more than a few words of agreement.[51]

Jones died on 21 January 2020 from complications of dementia[53] at his home in Highgate, north
London.[2][54]

Selected bibliography

Fiction
Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel (1997), ISBN 0-330-35446-9 – a novel based on
the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams.
Evil Machines (2011), ISBN 978-1-908717-01-6
Trouble On The Heath (2011), ISBN 978-1-907726-20-0
The Tyrant and the Squire (2018), ISBN 978-1783524624

Illustrated by Michael Foreman

Fairy Tales (1981), ISBN 0-907516-03-3

The Saga of Erik the Viking (1983), ISBN 0-907516-23-8 – Children's Book Award 1984
Nicobobinus (1985), ISBN 1-85145-000-9
The Curse of the Vampire's Socks and Other Doggerel (1988), ISBN 1-85145-233-8 –
poetry
Fantastic Stories (1992), ISBN 1-85145-957-X
The Beast with a Thousand Teeth (1993), ISBN 1-85793-070-3
A Fish of the World (1993), ISBN 1-85793-075-4
The Sea Tiger (1994), ISBN 1-85793-085-1
The Fly-by-Night (1994), ISBN 1-85793-090-8
The Knight and the Squire (1997), ISBN 1-86205-044-9
The Lady and the Squire (2000), ISBN 1-86205-417-7 – nominated for a Whitbread Award
Bedtime Stories (2002), ISBN 1-86205-276-X – with Nanette Newman
Animal Tales (2011), ISBN 978-1843651635

Illustrated by Brian Froud

Goblins of the Labyrinth (1986), ISBN 1-85145-058-0

The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins (1996), ISBN 1-85793-795-3 – an
abridged re-release, in a smaller format, with the colour plates missing
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book (1994), ISBN 1-85793-336-2
Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Quentin Cottington's Journal of Faery Research
(1996), ISBN 0-684-83206-2
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Journal (1998), ISBN 1-86205-024-4
Lady Cottington's Fairy Album (2002), ISBN 1-86205-559-9
Illustrated by Martin Honeysett and Lolly Honeysett

Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls with Michael Palin (1974) ISBN 0-413-32740-X -
expanded and revised editions of the book appeared as Dr. Fegg's Nasty Book of
Knowledge in the US in 1976 and Dr. Fegg's Encyclopeadia (sic) of all World Knowledge, in
the UK in 1984.

Non-fiction
Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary. 1980. ISBN 0-297-77566-9.; rev.
ed. (1994), ISBN 0-413-69140-3
Jones, Terry; Yeager, Robert F.; Doran, Terry; Fletcher, Alan; D'or, Juliett (2003). Who
Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery. ISBN 0-413-75910-5.
Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror (https://archive.org/details/terryjonesswaron0000jon
e). 2005. ISBN 1-56025-653-2.

With Alan Ereira

Crusades. 1994. ISBN 0-563-37007-6.

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (https://archive.org/details/terryjonesmediev00terr). 2004.
ISBN 0-563-48793-3.
Terry Jones' Barbarians (https://archive.org/details/terryjonesbarbar00jone). 2006. ISBN 0-
563-49318-6.

Filmography

Television
 Credited as
Title[55] Year Notes
Actor Writer Director Other Role
1966–
The Frost Report No Yes No No
1967
Additional
A Series of Bird's 1967 No Yes No No
material
Various
Twice a Fortnight 1967 Yes Yes No No
characters
1967– Various
Do Not Adjust Your Set Yes Yes No No
1969 characters
Horne A'Plenty 1968 No Yes No No
Various Additional
Broaden Your Mind 1968 Yes Yes No No
characters material
The Complete and Utter Various
1969 Yes Yes No Yes Also co-creator
History of Britain characters
Various
Marty 1969 Yes Yes No Yes
characters
Christmas Night with the 1969, Various
Yes Yes No No
Stars 1972 characters
1969– Various
Monty Python's Flying Circus Yes Yes No Yes Also co-creator
1974 characters
Frost on Sunday 1970 No Yes No No
Television
Marty Amok 1970 No Yes No No
special
1971–
The Two Ronnies No Yes No No 13 episodes
1976
Monty Python's Fliegender Various
1972 Yes Yes No No
Zirkus characters
Episode:
Black and Blue 1973 No Yes No No
"Secrets"
Mr. Ellis / Bear
1976–
Ripping Yarns Yes Yes No Yes / Mr. Moodie / Also co-creator
1979
Director
Various Television
The Mermaid Frolics 1977 Yes Yes Yes No
characters special
Episode:
Orson Welles'
"Michael
Saturday Night Live 1978 Yes No No No director
Palin/Eugene
(voice)
Record"
Various Television
Peter Cook & Co. 1980 Yes No No No
characters special
The Rupert Bear Story: A Television
1982 No Yes Yes Yes Himself
Tribute to Alfred Bestall documentary
Episode:
The Young Ones 1984 Yes No No No Drunk Vicar
"Nasty"
Bombardemagnus 1985 No Yes No No 2 episodes
The Young Indiana Jones 1992 Yes No Yes No Marcello Episode:
Chronicles "Barcelona,
 May 1917"
Jackanory 1993 Yes No No No Reader 2 episodes
Crusades 1995 No Yes No Yes Presenter 4 episodes
Co-creator and
1996–
Blazing Dragons No No No Yes executive
1998
producer
Ancient Inventions 1998 No Yes No Yes Presenter 3 episodes
Television short
Boy in Darkness 2000 Yes No No No Storyteller
film
Gladiators: The Brutal Truth 2000 No No No Yes Presenter
2001, Knife (voice) /
Comedy Lab Yes No No No 2 episodes
2010 Handyman
The Hidden History of Egypt 2002 No Yes No Yes Presenter
The Hidden History of Rome 2002 No Yes No Yes Presenter
Messenger
Dinotopia[56] 2002 Yes No No No
Bird (voice)
The Surprising History of
2002 No Yes No Yes Presenter
Sex and Love[57][58]
Terry Jones' Medieval
2004 No Yes No Yes Presenter 8 episodes
Lives[29][59]

The Story of 1[60] 2005 No No No Yes Presenter Documentary

Terry Jones' Barbarians[61] 2006 No Yes No Yes Presenter 4 episodes

Episode: "The
Kombat Opera Presents[62] 2007 No No Yes No South Bragg
Show"
Terry Jones' Great Map
2008 No No No Yes Presenter 4 episodes
Mystery[63]
The Legend of Dick and 2009–
Yes No No No Narrator
Dom[64] 2011

Episode: "In
Charlie
Perspectives 2015 No No No Yes Presenter
Chaplin's
Footsteps"

Film
 Credited as
Title[55] Year Notes
Actor Writer Director Other Role
And Now for Something Various
1971 Yes Yes No No
Completely Different characters
Sir
Bedevere
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Yes Yes Yes No
the Wise /
Various
Jabberwocky 1977 Yes No No No Poacher
Various
Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979 Yes Yes Yes No
characters
Harrington
The Box 1981 Yes Yes No No Short film
(voice)
Monty Python Live at the Various
1982 Yes Yes No No Concert film
Hollywood Bowl characters
Very Big
The Crimson Permanent Corporation
1983 Yes No No No Uncredited
Assurance of America
Clerk
Monty Python's The Meaning of Various
1983 Yes Yes Yes No
Life characters
Labyrinth 1986 No Yes No No
Personal Services 1987 No No Yes No
Erik the Viking 1989 Yes Yes Yes No King Arnulf
Sara's
L.A. Story 1991 Yes No No No Mother Uncredited
(voice)
The Wind in the Willows 1996 Yes Yes Yes No Mr. Toad
Obelix English
Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar 1999 Yes No No No
(voice) version
The Creator 1999 Yes No No No God
Professor
English
Help! I'm a Fish 2000 Yes No No No Mac Krill
version
(voice)
Homeless
Locked Out 2006 Yes No No No
person
Narrator
Anna and the Moods 2007 Yes No No No Short film
(voice)
Oxford
King Guillaume 2009 Yes No No No
Professor
Workingman
Not the Messiah (He's a Very
2010 Yes No No No / Mexican /
Naughty Boy)
Mountie
Graham's
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue
mother /
Story of Monty Python's Graham 2012 Yes No No No
Various
Chapman
voices
Various
Monty Python Live (Mostly) 2014 Yes Yes No No
characters
Absolutely Anything 2015 Yes Yes Yes No Scientist
Alien (voice)
/ Van Driver

Boom Bust Boom[65] 2015 No Yes Yes Yes Presenter Documentary

Documentary series
The Rupert Bear Story: A Tribute to Alfred Bestall (1982)[66]
Crusades (1995)[55]
Ancient Inventions – directed by Phil Grabsky and Daniel Percival (1998)[67]
Gladiators: The Brutal Truth (2000)[55]
The Surprising History of Egypt (USA, 2002) a.k.a. The Hidden History of Egypt (UK, 2003)
– directed by Phil Grabsky[68]
The Surprising History of Rome (USA, 2002) a.k.a. The Hidden History of Rome (UK, 2003)
– directed by Phil Grabsky[69]
The Surprising History of Sex and Love (2002) – directed by Alan Ereira and Phil
Grabsky[57][58]
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (2004)[59]
The Story of 1 (2005)[60]
Terry Jones' Barbarians (2006)[61]
Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery (2008)[63]
In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps with Terry Jones (2015)[70]
Boom Bust Boom (2015)[65]

See also
An asteroid, 9622 Terryjones, is named in his honour.[71]

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Further reading
Wilmut, Roger (1980). From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of
Comedy, 1960–1980. London: Eyre Methuen. ISBN 0-413-46950-6.

External links
 Terry Jones (https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f29677b) at the British Film
Institute
Terry Jones (https://curlie.org/Arts/People/J/Jones%2C_Terry/) at Curlie
Terry Jones (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001402/) on IMDb
Terry Jones (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/499825/) at the BFI's Screenonline
Terry Jones (https://web.archive.org/web/20050408070446/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/gu
ide/talent/j/jones_terry.shtml) at the BBC Guide to Comedy
Terry Jones (https://web.archive.org/web/20060308031338/http://www.comedy-zone.net/sta
ndup/comedian/j/jones-terry.htm) at the Comedy Zone
Terry Jones (https://www.discogs.com/artist/Terry+Jones) discography at Discogs

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