Terry Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Terry Jones

Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director and author

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1942

Place of Birth: Colwyn Bay, Wales, United Kingdom

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, composer, comedian, television presenter, character actor, creator, film director, children's writer, television actor, film actor

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Terry Jones

  • Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director and historian.
  • He is a member of the Monty Python comedy team. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in history, 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 the team's first film, 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 1986 film Labyrinth, though little of his work remained in the final cut.
  • He is 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. In 2016, Jones received a Lifetime Achievement award at the BAFTA Cymru Awards for his outstanding contribution to television and film.

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