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Terry Jones
Jones in 2014
Born
Terence Graham Parry Jones

(1942-02-01)1 February 1942
Colwyn Bay, Wales
Died21 January 2020(2020-01-21) (aged 77)
London, England
Alma materSt Edmund Hall, Oxford
Occupations
  • Actor
  • comedian
  • director
  • historian
  • writer
Years active1966–2016
Known forOne of the six members of Monty Python
Spouses
Alison Telfer
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(m. 1970; div. 2012)​
Anna Söderström
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(m. 2012)​
Children3

Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020)[1][2][3] was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, popular 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 actually remained in the final cut. Jones was a well-respected medieval historian, having written or co-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 in 2020 from frontotemporal dementia.[2]

Early life

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Jones was born on 1 February 1942 in the seaside town of Colwyn Bay, on the north coast of Wales, the son of housewife Dilys Louisa (Newnes), and Alick George Parry-Jones, a bank clerk.[2][4] The family home was named Bodchwil. As he recalled in The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons, he was "born right bang slap in the middle of World War II,"[5] while his father served with the Royal Air Force in Scotland.[6] A week after he was born, his father was posted in India as a Flight Lieutenant (Temporary).[7] His brother Nigel was two years his senior.[8] He reunited with his father when the war ended four years later; of their first meeting at Colwyn Bay railway station he recalled: "I'd only ever been kissed by the smooth lips of a lady up until that point, so his bristly moustache was quite disturbing!"[9] When Jones was four and a half, the family moved to Claygate, Surrey, England.[10]

Jones attended Esher COE primary school and the Royal Grammar School[11] 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".[12][13] He became interested in the medieval period through reading Chaucer as part of his English degree.[14] He graduated with a 2:1.[15] 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."[16]

Career history

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Before Python and early Python

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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.[17][18] 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" or "grannies from hell") are among the most memorable.[19]

Directorial work

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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 fuller control of the projects and devised a distinct, signature style that relied on visual comedy and surreal touches to complement the jokes. He would repeatedly abandon punchlines and create fragmented, non-sequitur story arcs to bring out the deadpan humour.[20][21] His later films include Erik the Viking (1989) and The Wind in the Willows (1996). In 2008, Jones wrote the libretto for and directed the opera Evil Machines.[22] In 2011, he was commissioned to direct and write the libretto for another opera, entitled The Doctor's Tale.[23]

Three of the films which Jones directed—The Meaning of Life, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Personal Services—were banned in Ireland.[24]

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.[25] 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.[26]

In 2016, Jones directed Jeepers Creepers, a West End play about the life of comic Marty Feldman.[27] It would be Jones' last directing work before his death.

Writer and brewer

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Jones wrote many books and screenplays, including comic works and more serious writing on medieval history.[28][29]

A member of the Campaign for Real Ale, Jones also had interest in real ale and in 1977 co-founded the Penrhos Brewery, a microbrewery at Penrhos Court at Penrhos, Herefordshire, which ran until 1983. The former brewery has now become a pub called The Python's Arms.[30][31]

Comedy

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Jones co-wrote Ripping Yarns with Palin. They also wrote a play, Underwood's Finest Hour, which was staged at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 1981, about an obstetrician distracted during a birth by the radio broadcast of a Test match.[32] Jones also wrote numerous works for children, including Fantastic Stories, The Beast with a Thousand Teeth and a collection of comic verse called The Curse of the Vampire's Socks.[33][34]

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.[33][34]

Screenplays

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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.[35]

History

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"[you] speak to him on subjects as diverse as fossil fuels, or Rupert Bear, or mercenaries in the Middle Ages or Modern China ... in a moment you will find yourself hopelessly out of your depth, floored by his knowledge."

—Python biographer George Perry on Jones[36]

Jones wrote books and presented television documentaries on medieval and ancient history. His first book was Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary (1980), which offers an alternative take on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale. Chaucer's knight is often interpreted as a paragon of Christian virtue, but Jones asserts that if one studies historical accounts of the battles the knight claims he was involved in, he can be interpreted as a typical mercenary and a potentially cold-blooded killer.[37] He also co-wrote Who Murdered Chaucer? (2003) in which he argues that Chaucer was close to King Richard II, and that after Richard was deposed, Chaucer was persecuted to death by Thomas Arundel.[38]

Jones' TV series also frequently challenged popular views of history. For example, in Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (2004; for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming")[39] he argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought,[40] 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 AD 410 to propaganda.[41]

Column writing

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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.[29][42]

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.[43] 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.[44][45]

Poetry

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Jones was a member of the Poetry Society, and his poems have appeared in Poetry Review.[46]

Work with musicians

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Jones performed with the Carnival Band and appears on their 2007 CD Ringing the Changes.[47][48]

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.[49]

In January 2012 Jones announced that he was working with songwriter/producer Jim Steinman on a heavy metal version of The Nutcracker.[50]

As performer

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Jones performing in 2014
Jones (right) behind the counter during the “Spam sketch” at Monty Python Live (Mostly) in 2014. He plays a waitress who recites a menu in which nearly every dish contains Spam

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).[51][52]

In 2009, Jones took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history. In July 2014, Jones reunited with the other four living Pythons to perform at ten dates (Monty Python Live (Mostly)) at the O2 Arena in London. This was Jones' last performance with the group prior to his aphasia diagnosis.[53][54]

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.[55][56]

Personal life

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Marriages

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Jones married Alison Telfer in 1970; they had two children together, Sally in 1974 and Bill in 1976. They lived in Camberwell, London and had an open marriage.[57][58] In 2009, Jones left Telfer for Anna Söderström; she was 41 years his junior and they had been in a relationship for five years.[59] In September 2009, Söderström and Jones had a daughter,[60] and in 2012 they married.[2] The family settled in Highgate, North London.[61]

Political views

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In a 1984 interview, Jones stated "if I had any political convictions, I would say that I am an anarchist", stating that anarchism was a belief in government from the bottom up, rather than something imposed from above.[62]

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 mocked the war on terror, belittling it as "declaring war on an abstract noun" and comparing it to attempting to "annihilate mockery".[63]

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.[64]

Health and death

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In October 2006, Jones was diagnosed with colon cancer and underwent surgery.[65] After a complete cycle of chemotherapy, he became free of cancer. Later reminiscing about the event, he said, "Unfortunately, my illness is not nearly bad enough to sell many newspapers and the prognosis is even more disappointing."[66]

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.[67] He became a campaigner for awareness of, and fundraiser for research into, dementia;[2] he donated his brain for dementia research.[68] By September 2016, he was no longer able to give interviews.[69] By April 2017, he had lost the ability to say more than a few words of agreement.[67]

On 21 January 2020, Jones died at his home in Highgate from complications of dementia. He was eleven days away from his 78th birthday.[2][70][71] His family and close friends remembered him with a humanist funeral ceremony.[72]

Selected bibliography

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Fiction

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  • Douglas Adams's 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
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

Non-fiction

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With Alan Ereira

Filmography

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Television

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Title[73] Year Credited as Notes
Writer Director
The Frost Report 1966–1967 Yes No
A Series of Bird's 1967 Yes No Additional material
Twice a Fortnight Yes No
Do Not Adjust Your Set 1967–1969 Yes No
Horne A'Plenty 1968 Yes No
Broaden Your Mind Yes No Additional material
The Complete and Utter History of Britain 1969 Yes No Also co-creator
Marty Yes No
Christmas Night with the Stars 1969, 1972 Yes No
Monty Python's Flying Circus 1969–1974 Yes No Also co-creator and performer
Frost on Sunday 1970 Yes No
Marty Amok Yes No TV special
The Two Ronnies 1971–1976 Yes No 13 episodes
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus 1972 Yes No
Black and Blue 1973 Yes No Episode: "Secrets"
Ripping Yarns 1976–1979 Yes No Also co-creator
The Mermaid Frolics 1977 Yes Yes TV special
The Rupert Bear Story: A Tribute to Alfred Bestall 1982 No Yes TV documentary
Bombardemagnus 1985 Yes No 2 episodes
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 1992 No Yes Episode: "Barcelona, May 1917"
Crusades 1995 Yes No 4 episodes
Blazing Dragons 1996–1998 Yes No Co-creator and executive producer
Ancient Inventions 1998 Yes No 3 episodes
The Hidden History of Egypt 2002 Yes No
The Hidden History of Rome Yes No
The Surprising History of Sex and Love[74][75] Yes No
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives[40][76] 2004 Yes No 8 episodes
Terry Jones' Barbarians[77] 2006 Yes No 4 episodes
Kombat Opera Presents[78] 2007 No Yes Episode: "The South Bragg Show"

Television acting roles

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Title[73] Year Role Notes
Twice a Fortnight 1967 Various characters
Do Not Adjust Your Set 1967–1969
Broaden Your Mind 1968
The Complete and Utter History of Britain 1969
Marty
Christmas Night with the Stars 1969, 1972
Monty Python's Flying Circus 1969–1974
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus 1972
Ripping Yarns 1976–1979 Mr. Ellis / Bear / Mr. Moodie / Director
The Mermaid Frolics 1977 Various characters TV special
Saturday Night Live 1978 Orson Welles' director (voice) Episode: "Michael Palin/Eugene Record"
Peter Cook & Co. 1980 Various characters TV special
The Rupert Bear Story: A Tribute to Alfred Bestall 1982 Himself TV documentary
The Young Ones 1984 Drunk Vicar Episode: "Nasty"
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 1992 Marcello Episode: "Barcelona, May 1917"
Jackanory 1993 Reader 2 episodes
Space Ghost Coast to Coast 1996 Himself Episode: "Explode"
Monty Python Live at Aspen 1998 TV special
Boy in Darkness 2000 Storyteller TV short film
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades 2001 Marcello TV film (episode "Barcelona, May 1917" with new connecting segments)
Comedy Lab 2001, 2010 Knife (voice) / Handyman 2 episodes
Dinotopia[79] 2002 Messenger Bird (voice)
The Legend of Dick and Dom[80] 2009–2011 Narrator

Presenter

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Title[73] Year Notes
Crusades 1995 4 episodes
Ancient Inventions 1998 3 episodes
Gladiators: The Brutal Truth 2000
The Hidden History of Egypt 2002
The Hidden History of Rome
The Surprising History of Sex and Love[74][75]
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives[40][76] 2004 8 episodes
The Story of 1[81] 2005 Documentary
Terry Jones' Barbarians[77] 2006 4 episodes
Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery[82] 2008
Perspectives[citation needed] 2015 Episode: "In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps"

Film

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Title[73] Year Credited as Notes
Writer Director
And Now for Something Completely Different 1971 Yes No
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Yes Yes Co-directed with Terry Gilliam
Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979 Yes Yes
The Box 1981 Yes No Short film
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl 1982 Yes No Concert film
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Yes Yes
Labyrinth 1986 Yes No
Personal Services 1987 No Yes
Erik the Viking 1989 Yes Yes
The Wind in the Willows 1996 Yes Yes
Monty Python Live (Mostly) 2014 Yes No
Absolutely Anything 2015 Yes Yes
Boom Bust Boom[83] 2015 Yes Yes Documentary

Film acting roles

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Title[73] Year Role Notes
And Now for Something Completely Different 1971 Various characters
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Sir Bedevere the Wise / Various
Jabberwocky 1977 Poacher
Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979 Various characters
The Box 1981 Harrington (voice) Short film
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl 1982 Various characters Concert film
The Crimson Permanent Assurance 1983 Very Big Corporation of America Clerk Uncredited
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Various characters
Erik the Viking 1989 King Arnulf
L.A. Story 1991 Sara's Mother (voice) Uncredited
The Wind in the Willows 1996 Mr. Toad
Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar 1999 Obelix (voice) English version
The Creator God
Help! I'm a Fish 2000 Professor Mac Krill (voice) English version
Locked Out[citation needed] 2006 Homeless person
Anna and the Moods[citation needed] 2007 Narrator (voice) Short film
King Guillaume[citation needed] 2009 Oxford Professor
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) 2010 Workingman / Mexican / Mountie
A Liar's Autobiography:
The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman 		2012 Graham's mother / Various voices
Monty Python Live (Mostly) 2014 Various characters
Absolutely Anything 2015 Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver
Boom Bust Boom[83] Presenter Documentary
The Land of Sometimes TBA The Wish Watch (voice)

Documentary series

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Award and recognition

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  1. In 1975, for Matching Tie and Handkerchief (Album)
  2. In 1980, for Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Album)
  3. In 1983, for Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Album)[89]

See also

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References

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Further reading

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