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Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

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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, including Do Not Adjust Your Set and The Frost Report, before creating Monty Python's Flying Circus with Cambridge graduates Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle 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 punch lines. He made his directorial debut with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which he co-directed with 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 and is credited with the screenplay, though little of his work actually remained in the final cut. Jones was a well-respected medieval historian, having written several books and presented television documentaries about the period, as well as a prolific children's author. 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 on January 21, 2020, from frontotemporal dementia.

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Terrence Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, on 1 February 1942. In 1961 he enrolled at St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, to read history; he soon became involved in the university theatre scene, performing at the Edinburgh Festival and in London.

While at Oxford he met Michael Palin, who after graduating joined him in working for the BBC Light Entertainment Script Department. The pair wrote sketches for various comedy shows, combining forces with Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam in 1967 to create to create a popular children's programme, Do Not Adjust Your Set (ITV, 1968-69), which acquired a cult following among adults.

In 1969 the group, now including John Cleese and Graham Chapman, launched Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC, 1969-74), a television series whose fame was to become legendary, amply consolidated by three feature films. While following in a British comic tradition of nonsense, word-play, and cross-dressing, Python broke established comedy rules, eliminating punchlines and narrative causality, relying instead on subversion and surrealism; its sheer originality led to the inclusion of the adjective 'Pythonesque' in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974), co-directed by Jones and Gilliam, was an absurdist revision of Arthurian legend: shot on a small budget, it combined with a painstaking recreation of medieval squalor. Jones's obsessive perfectionism clashed with Gilliam's own strong views on direction, and Jones directed the next two Python films alone.

Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) charted the misadventures of the hapless protagonist, born at the same time as Jesus Christ and mistaken for the Messiah; the film was ferociously attacked as blasphemous by the Church, although controversy merely enhanced its popularity. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) was a series of loosely linked sketches, a hint of the impending dissolution of the Python group; however, it contained

Terry Jones was born on 1 February 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, the second son of Alick George Parry-Jones, a bank clerk, and his wife Dilys Louisa (née Newnes). He first met his father on the platform of Colwyn Bay railway station when he returned from India after serving with the RAF during World War Two. When Terry was four, the family moved to Surrey where he attended primary school in Esher and the Royal Grammar School in Guildford before going on to read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford,, though, as he put it, he 'strayed into history', the subject in which he graduated. During his time at Oxford he met Michael Palin with whom he performed comedy in The Oxford Revue.

Graduating in 1964, Jones and Palin joined a team of writers and performers on Twice a Fortnight, a BBC sketch show that aired for 10 weeks at the end of 1967. He also wrote for The Frost Report, the series that first saw the future Pythons working together, and in the ITV sketch show, Do Not Adjust Your Set. He and Palin went on to write The Complete and Utter History of Britain, which aired on the London region of ITV in 1969. But Jones grew frustrated with the way the show was put together and decided he wanted to take charge of his own projects. 'It got me really convinced that you have to control everything,' he said later. 'You not only act in the

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

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Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

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, including Do Not Adjust Your Set and The Frost Report, before creating Monty Python's Flying Circus with Cambridge graduates Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle 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 punch lines. He made his directorial debut with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which he co-directed with 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 and is credited with the screenplay, though little of his work actuall