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{{short description|Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)}}
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'''Terence Graham Parry Jones''' (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/terry-jones/ |work=BBC Wales |date=7 October 2009 |title=Terry Jones}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/22/terry-jones-monty-python-founder-and-life-of-brian-director-dies-aged-77|title=Terry Jones, Monty Python founder and Life of Brian director, dies aged 77|last=Pulver|first=Andrew|date=22 January 2020|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=22 January 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/terry-jones-death-monty-python-age-cause-a9296546.html|first=Jacob|last=Stolworthy |title=Terry Jones death: Monty Python star and Life of Brian director dies, aged 77|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> 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 ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian|Life of Brian]]'' and ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life|The Meaning of Life]]''. His other directorial credits include ''[[Personal Services]]'' and ''[[The Wind in the Willows (1996 film)|The Wind in the Willows]]''.

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 (1986 film)|Labyrinth]]'' and is credited with the screenplay. 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]].<ref name="Guardian"/>

== Early life ==
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.<ref name="Guardian"/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GkYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Alick+George+Parry+(a+bank+clerk)+and+Dilys+Louisa+(a+homemaker;+maiden+name,+Newnes)+Jones;%22|title=Something about the Author|date=24 January 2002|publisher=Gale Research|via=Google Books|isbn=9780787647155}}</ref> When he was born during [[World War II]], his father was serving with the [[Royal Air Force]] in Scotland.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nfoEBAAAQBAJ|title=The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons|last=Jones|first=Terry|publisher=Hachette, UK|year=2014|isbn=978-1-4091-5678-9|editor-last=McCabe|editor-first=Bob|location=London, England|chapter=In which we are born|oclc=893659625}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/arts/television/terry-jones-dead.html|title=Terry Jones, Monty Python Founder and Scholar, Is Dead at 77|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|date=22 January 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=29 January 2020|language=en-US}}</ref> A week after he was born, his father was posted in India as a [[Flight lieutenant|Flight Lieutenant (Temporary)]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35503/data.pdf|title=Royal Air Force|date=27 March 1942|website=www.thegazette.co.uk|access-date=29 January 2020}}</ref> His brother Nigel was two years his senior.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cardinalfang.net/biographies/jones_biog.html|title=Terry Jones biography|website=www.cardinalfang.net|access-date=29 January 2020}}</ref> 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!"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/its-big-surprise-people-still-11929902|title=Classic interview with Terry Jones: 'It's a big surprise that people still want to talk about Monty Python'|last=Bevan|first=Nathan|date=23 September 2016|website=Wales Online|access-date=29 January 2020}}</ref> When Jones was four and a half, the family moved to [[Claygate]], [[Surrey]], England.<ref name=life>{{cite web|last=Bevan |first=Nathan |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/arts-in-wales/2011/03/05/the-life-and-times-of-monty-python-s-terry-jones-91466-28274298/ |title=The life and times of Monty Python's Terry Jones by Nathan Bevan, Western Mail at |website=Wales Online |date=5 March 2011 |access-date=1 June 2011}}</ref>

Jones attended Esher COE primary school and the [[Royal Grammar School, Guildford|Royal Grammar School]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rgs-guildford.co.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=Terry+Jones&pid=355 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130215156/http://www.rgs-guildford.co.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=Terry+Jones&pid=355 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 November 2009 |title=Distinguished Old Guildfordians – Terry Jones |work=Royal Grammar School, Guildford Website |access-date=9 February 2011}}</ref> 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".<ref name="english">{{cite book|first=Roger|last=Wilmut|title=From Fringe to Flying Circus|publisher=Oxford Books|location=London, England|date=1980|isbn=978-0413507709|page=38}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=An interview with Terry Jones|url=http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/474/474005p1.html|website=IGN|date=21 January 2004|access-date=29 June 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713004743/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/474/474005p1.html|archive-date=13 July 2011}}</ref> He became interested in the medieval period through reading [[Chaucer]] as part of his English degree.<ref>{{cite web|first=Todd|last=Leopold|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/terry.jones/|title=A Python Gets Serious|website=[[CNN]]|date=13 April 2005|access-date=11 September 2018|archive-date=28 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028100814/http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/terry.jones/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He graduated with a [[2:1]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2009-10/v22n2/06.shtml |title=A Python's progress|journal=Oxford Today|publisher=[[Oxford University]]|location=Oxford, England |volume=22 |number=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620231547/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2009-10/v22n2/06.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 June 2010 |access-date=1 June 2011 }}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news |title=Michael Palin interview |url=https://thechap.co.uk/2018/09/19/michael-palin/ |date=September 19, 2018 |access-date=28 August 2019 |work=Chap.co.uk |archive-date=3 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503133907/https://thechap.co.uk/2018/09/19/michael-palin/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thefrostreport/|title=The Frost Report|publisher=BBC|access-date=9 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/08/jimmy-gilbert-bbc-producer-who-presided-over-a-golden-age-of-lig/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/08/jimmy-gilbert-bbc-producer-who-presided-over-a-golden-age-of-lig/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Jimmy Gilbert, BBC producer who presided over a golden age of light entertainment – obituary|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=8 June 2016|access-date=9 July 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Monty Python's Flying Circus |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/montypython/ |access-date=24 August 2019 |work=BBC}}</ref>

=== Directorial work ===
[[File:Terry Jones in 2007.jpg|thumb|Jones in 2007]]
Jones co-directed ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' with [[Terry Gilliam]], and was sole director on two further Monty Python movies, ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian|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 (literary device)|non sequitur]] story arcs to bring out the deadpan humour.<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 January 2020 |title=Monty Python's Terry Jones: Master of the absurd |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30116194 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Andrews |first=Nigel |date=23 January 2020 |title=Terry Jones, actor, writer and director, 1942–2020 |url=https://www.ft.com/content/a08cabbc-3d3c-11ea-a01a-bae547046735 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/a08cabbc-3d3c-11ea-a01a-bae547046735 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |newspaper=Financial Times}}</ref> His later films include ''[[Erik the Viking]]'' (1989) and ''[[The Wind in the Willows (1996 film)|The Wind in the Willows]]'' (1996). In 2008, Jones wrote the libretto for and directed the opera ''Evil Machines''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Francesca |date=16 January 2008 |title=Ex-Python's opera rings the changes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/jan/16/theatre3 |access-date=11 September 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref> In 2011, he was commissioned to direct and write the libretto for another opera, entitled ''The Doctor's Tale''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Holly |date=27 February 2011 |title=Heads Up: Operashots |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/features/heads-up-operashots-2226603.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817193515/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/features/heads-up-operashots-2226603.html |archive-date=17 August 2018 |access-date=11 September 2018 |newspaper=The Independent |location=London}}</ref>

Three of the films which Jones directed—''The Meaning of Life'', ''Monty Python's Life of Brian'' and ''[[Personal Services]]''—were banned in Ireland.<ref>{{cite book|title=Moralism: A Study of a Vice|first=Craig|last=Taylor|page=171|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|isbn=978-1-317-54771-6}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gioia |first=Michael |date=27 February 2014 |title=Monty Python Members, Eddie Izzard, Robin Williams and More Among Cast of ''Absolutely Anything'' Film |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/188150-Monty-Python-Members-Eddie-Izzard-Robin-Williams-and-More-Among-Cast-of-Absolutely-Anything-Film |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302220515/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/188150-Monty-Python-Members-Eddie-Izzard-Robin-Williams-and-More-Among-Cast-of-Absolutely-Anything-Film?tsrc=nx |archive-date=2 March 2014 |magazine=Playbill}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |date=15 April 2015 |title=In Conversation: Terry Jones (Director – Absolutely Anything, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Wind in the Willows) |url=http://filmdoctor.co.uk/2015/04/15/in-conversation-terry-jones-director-absolutely-anything-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-life-of-brian-wind-in-the-willows/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225090841/http://filmdoctor.co.uk/2015/04/15/in-conversation-terry-jones-director-absolutely-anything-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-life-of-brian-wind-in-the-willows/ |archive-date=25 February 2021 |access-date=11 September 2018 |magazine=Film Doctor}}</ref>

In 2016, Jones directed ''Jeepers Creepers'', a West End play about the life of comic [[Marty Feldman]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Terry |date=12 January 2016 |title=Marty Feldman and 'Jeepers Creepers': Why Terry Jones is celebrating the comic on stage |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/marty-feldman-and-jeepers-creepers-why-terry-jones-is-celebrating-the-comic-on-stage-a6807896.html |access-date=22 August 2025 |newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> It was his last directing work before his death.

=== Writer and brewer ===
Jones wrote many books and screenplays, including comic works and more serious writing on medieval history.<ref>{{cite web |title=Terry Jones |url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Terry+Jones&dblist=638&fq=ap%3A%22jones%2C+terry%22&qt=facet_ap%3A#x0%253Abook-%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Aprintbook%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Adigital%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Athsis%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Alargeprint%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Amic%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Abraille%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Amss%2529format |access-date=22 January 2020 |publisher=WorldCat}}</ref><ref name="St Edmund Hall"/>

He also had an interest in [[real ale]], and was a member of the [[Campaign for Real Ale]]. In 1977 he 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 September 2008 |title=A pint with Terry Jones |url=https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2008/09/11/A-pint-with-Terry-Jones/ |access-date=22 August 2025 |website=morningadvertiser.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Boak |first=Jessica |date=19 June 2014 |title=12 things you didn't know about British beer |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10906130/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-British-beer.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10906130/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-British-beer.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |work=telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==== Comedy ====
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 cricket|Test match]].<ref>[[Christopher Martin-Jenkins]], "Bookshelf", ''[[The Cricketer]]'', January 1982, p. 35.</ref> 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''.<ref name="Writers of Wales">{{cite web |title=Terry Jones |url=http://welshwriters.co.uk/terry-jones/ |website=Writers of Wales |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="Fantastic Fiction">{{cite web |title=Terry Jones |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/terry-jones/ |website=Fantastic Fiction |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>

Jones was the co-creator (with [[Gavin Scott]]) of the [[Animated series|animated]] TV series ''[[Blazing Dragons]]'' (1996–1998), which parodied the [[Arthurian]] legends and [[Middle Ages]] periods. Reversing a common story convention, the series' [[protagonist]]s are [[anthropomorphic]] [[dragon]]s beset by evil humans.<ref name="Writers of Wales"/><ref name="Fantastic Fiction"/>

==== Screenplays ====
Jones wrote the screenplay for ''[[Labyrinth (1986 film)|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/la2/withinyourheart/monty.html|title=The Terry Jones Labyrinth Interview|website=[[Angelfire]]}}</ref>

==== History ====
{{Quote box|width=29%|align=right|quote="[you] speak to him on subjects as diverse as [[fossil fuel]]s, or [[Rupert Bear]], or mercenaries in the [[Middle Ages]] or Modern China&nbsp;... in a moment you will find yourself hopelessly out of your depth, floored by his knowledge."|source=—Python biographer George Perry on Jones<ref>Perry, George (2007). ''The Life of Python''. p. 40. Pavilion</ref>}}
Jones wrote books and presented television documentaries on [[Middle Ages|medieval]] and [[Classical antiquity|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 [[Seven virtues|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.<ref name="Conversation">{{cite web |last=Turner |first=Marion |title=Terry Jones: professional comic, amateur historian, accomplished human being |url=https://theconversation.com/terry-jones-professional-comic-amateur-historian-accomplished-human-being-130514? |website=The Conversation |publisher=The Conversation UK |access-date=20 March 2023 |date=24 January 2020}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Jonathan|last=Myerson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/15/classics.highereducation|title=Review: Who Murdered Chaucer?|newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 November 2003|access-date=11 September 2018}}</ref>

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")<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/terry-jones-medieval-lives|title=Terry Jones' Medieval Lives|website=emmys.com|access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref> he argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought,<ref name=tjml>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3507439.stm|title=Python slams 'overrated' Renaissance|work=BBC News|date=23 February 2004|access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref> 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 (410)|sack of Rome]] in AD 410 to propaganda.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00791rm|title=BBC One – Terry Jones's Barbarians|website=BBC}}</ref>

==== 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''.<ref name="St Edmund Hall">{{cite web |title=Terry Jones {{!}} Honorary Fellow |url=https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/terry-jones |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013050910/https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/terry-jones |archive-date=13 October 2019 |access-date=22 January 2020 |website=St Edmund Hall}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A Python gets serious |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/terry.jones/ |access-date=22 January 2020 |agency=CNN |archive-date=23 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123094847/https://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/terry.jones/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In November 2011, his book ''[[Evil Machines]]'' was launched by the online publishing house [[Unbound (publisher)|Unbound]] at the Adam Street Club in London. It was the first book to be published by a [[crowdfunding]] website dedicated solely to books.<ref>{{cite news|first=Terry|last=Jones|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/11/terry-jones-publishing-evil-machines|title=How a new online venture helped to publish Evil Machines|newspaper=The Guardian|date=11 November 2011|access-date=11 September 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Neill |first=Graeme |title=Terry Jones first Unbound author {{!}} The Bookseller |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/terry-jones-first-unbound-author# |website=The Bookseller |access-date=22 January 2020 |date=19 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Terry Jones |url=https://unbound.com/authors/terry-jones |website=Unbound |access-date=22 January 2020 |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930231153/https://unbound.com/authors/terry-jones |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==== Poetry ====
Jones was a member of the [[Poetry Society]], and his poems have appeared in ''[[Poetry Review]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Yorkshire Post video interview: Python Terry Jones |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/the-yorkshire-post-video-interview-python-terry-jones-1-2341143 |access-date=22 January 2020 |work=yorkshirepost.co.uk |date=3 April 2009 |archive-date=27 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627202431/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/the-yorkshire-post-video-interview-python-terry-jones-1-2341143 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Work with musicians ===
Jones performed with the [[The Carnival Band (folk group)|Carnival Band]] and appears on their 2007 CD ''Ringing the Changes''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/dec/14/worldmusic.shopping2 |title=CD: Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, Ringing the Changes |first=Robin|last=Denselow |date=14 December 2007 |website=theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Maddy-Prior-The-Carnival-Band-Ringing-The-Changes/release/1511924|title=Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band – Ringing The Changes|website=Discogs|date=10 December 2007 }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones blends machines, opera in new show |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/jan/10/ex-monty-python-star-terry-jones-blends-machines/ |access-date=22 January 2020 |work=The Spokesman Review}}</ref>

In January 2012 Jones announced that he was working with songwriter/producer [[Jim Steinman]] on a heavy metal version of ''[[The Nutcracker]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Website featuring Canadian doctor, Monty Python pal blends humour, health advice |date=19 January 2012 |work=ca.news.yahoo.com |url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/website-featuring-canadian-doctor-monty-python-pal-blends-215901908.html |access-date=23 January 2012}}{{dead link|date=September 2016}}</ref>

=== As performer ===
[[File:Monty Python Live 02-07-14 10 45 45 (14621992853).jpg|thumb|Jones performing in 2014]]
[[File:Monty Python Live 02-07-14 13 05 04 (14415402659).jpg|thumb|Jones (right) behind the counter during the "[[Spam (Monty Python sketch)|Spam sketch]]" at ''[[Monty Python Live (Mostly)]]'' in 2014. He plays a waitress who recites a menu in which nearly every dish contains [[Spam (food)|Spam]].]]
Apart from a cameo in [[Terry Gilliam]]'s ''[[Jabberwocky (film)|Jabberwocky]]'' and a minor role as a drunken vicar in the BBC sitcom ''[[The Young Ones (TV series)|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 (TV channel)|CBBC]] fantasy series set in the Middle Ages. He also appears in two French films by [[Albert Dupontel]]: ''[[The Creator (1999 film)|Le Créateur]]'' (1999) and ''[[Enfermés dehors]]'' (2006).<ref>{{cite web |title=Enfermés Dehors (2006) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8b60b7fd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028005230/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8b60b7fd |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 October 2020 |website=BFI |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Le Créateur (1999)|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b817aaec9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505174449/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b817aaec9 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2019 |website=BFI |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>

In 2009, Jones took part in the [[BBC Wales]] programme ''[[Coming Home (UK TV series)|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|the O<sub>2</sub> Arena]] in London. This was Jones' last performance with the group prior to his [[aphasia]] diagnosis.<ref>{{cite news|title=Monty Python live (mostly), review: poignant and predictable, but tremendous fun|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10975695/Monty-Python-live-mostly-review-poignant-and-predictable-but-tremendous-fun.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10975695/Monty-Python-live-mostly-review-poignant-and-predictable-but-tremendous-fun.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=21 July 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=John Cleese and Mick Jagger are wrong – Monty Python's silly walks are still hilarious |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jul/01/john-cleese-mick-jagger-monty-python-silly-walks-funny |access-date=22 August 2019 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2016/oct/03/monty-python-star-terry-jones-and-son-tearful-at-bafta-ceremony-video |title=Monty Python star Terry Jones and son tearful at Bafta ceremony – video |date=3 October 2016 |work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-wales-37537212/bafta-cymru-award-an-honour-for-terry-jones-says-son|title=Bafta award an 'honour' for Terry Jones|date=3 October 2016|publisher=BBC}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

=== Marriages ===
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]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Matthew|last=Moore|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/5228615/Monty-Pythons-Terry-Jones-gets-lover-26-pregnant.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/5228615/Monty-Pythons-Terry-Jones-gets-lover-26-pregnant.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Monty Python's Terry Jones gets lover, 26, pregnant|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=27 April 2009|access-date=25 October 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/terry-jones-maybe-i-can-pay-off-the-mortgage-maybe-not-5hpgc7x29vk|title=Terry Jones: 'Maybe I can pay off the mortgage, maybe not'|last=Maxwell|first=Dominic}}</ref> In 2009, Jones left Telfer for Anna Söderström; she was 41 years his junior and they had been in a relationship for five years.<ref>{{cite web|first=Darren|last=Devine|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/monty-python-legend-terry-jones-6334703|title=Monty Python's Terry Jones "still loves" his wife of 42 years despite plans to marry a Swedish student|website=Wales Online|date=9 March 2012|access-date=25 October 2018}}</ref> In September 2009, Söderström and Jones had a daughter,<ref>{{Cite news|first=Anita | last=Singh | title=Monty Python star Terry Jones introduces baby Siri|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6239693/Monty-Python-star-Terry-Jones-introduces-baby-Siri.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002223337/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6239693/Monty-Python-star-Terry-Jones-introduces-baby-Siri.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 October 2009 | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=28 September 2009 | access-date=25 May 2010}}</ref> and in 2012 they married.<ref name="Guardian"/> The family settled in [[Highgate]], [[North London]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tree-falls-on-monty-python-star-s-house-but-there-s-no-lumberjack-and-terry-jones-is-ok-8436763.html|title = Tree falls on Monty Python star's house (But there's no lumberjack|date = 3 January 2013}}</ref>

=== Political views ===
In a 1984 interview, Jones stated "if I had any political convictions, I would say that I am an [[Social anarchism|anarchist]]", stating that anarchism was a belief in government from the bottom up, rather than something imposed from above.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Terry |title=1984: Terry Jones on Anarchy, Ale and Medieval Dental Hygiene |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2SlWLj-Kg&t=619s |website=Youtube |date=16 February 2023 |access-date=6 May 2023}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite news|first=Terry|last=Jones|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1364012/Why-grammar-is-the-first-casualty-of-war.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1364012/Why-grammar-is-the-first-casualty-of-war.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Why grammar is the first casualty of war|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=1 December 2001|access-date=11 September 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

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 [[2014 Scottish independence referendum|referendum on that issue]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |title=Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories |newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 August 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014}}</ref>

=== Health and death ===
In October 2006, Jones was diagnosed with [[Colorectal cancer|colon cancer]] and underwent surgery.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6077480.stm|title=Ex-Python star has cancer surgery|date=23 October 2006|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=29 January 2020|language=en-GB}}</ref> After a course of [[chemotherapy]], he was declared free of the disease. 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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/python-star-given-cancer-all-clear-2259266|title=Python star given cancer all-clear|last=Turner|first=Robin|date=15 April 2007|website=walesonline|access-date=29 January 2020}}</ref>

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.<ref name="absconded">{{cite news|first=Robin|last=McKie|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/16/monty-python-terry-jones-learning-to-live-with-dementia?CMP=edit_2221|title=Terry Jones: 'I've got dementia. My frontal lobe has absconded'|newspaper=The Guardian|date=16 April 2017|access-date=16 April 2017}}</ref> He became a campaigner for awareness of, and fundraiser for research into, [[dementia]];<ref name="Guardian"/> he donated his brain for dementia research.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Singh |first=Anita |date=26 January 2020 |title=Monty Python frontman Terry Jones donated his brain to dementia research |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/26/monty-python-frontman-terry-jones-donated-brain-dementia-research/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/26/monty-python-frontman-terry-jones-donated-brain-dementia-research/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |newspaper=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> By September 2016, he was no longer able to give interviews.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37451043| title=Monty Python's Terry Jones diagnosed with dementia |newspaper=BBC News|date=23 September 2016 | access-date=11 September 2018}}</ref> By April 2017, he had lost the ability to say more than a few words of agreement.<ref name="absconded"/>

On 21 January 2020, Jones died at his home in Highgate from complications of dementia.<ref name="Guardian"/><ref name="death-bbc">{{cite news |title=Monty Python star Terry Jones dies aged 77 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197 |access-date=22 January 2020 |work=BBC News|date=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/22/monty-python-star-terry-jones-dies-aged-77-dementia-battle-11242835/|title=Monty Python star Terry Jones dies aged 77 after dementia battle|last=Kelly|first=Emma|date=22 January 2020|newspaper=Metro|access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref> His family and close friends remembered him with a [[Secular humanism|humanist]] [[humanist celebrant|funeral ceremony]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/05/monty-pythons-john-cleese-sir-michael-palin-terry-gilliam-bid-farewell-terry-jones-following-death-aged-77-12189925/|work=The Metro|access-date=6 February 2020|date=5 February 2020|last=Evans|first=Mel|title=Monty Python's John Cleese, Sir Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam bid farewell to Terry Jones following death aged 77}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==

=== Fiction ===
*''[[Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel]]'' (1997), {{ISBN|0-330-35446-9}} – a novel based on the [[Starship Titanic|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 (illustrator)|Michael Foreman]]
*''[[Fairy Tales (Jones book)|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 [[2001 Whitbread Awards|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 ===
* {{cite book |title=Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary |date=1980 |isbn=0-297-77566-9 |display-authors=0 |first=Terry |last=Jones |publisher=Orion Publishing Group, Limited}}; rev. ed. (1994), {{ISBN|0-413-69140-3}}
* {{cite book |title=Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery |date=2003 |isbn=0-413-75910-5 |first1=Terry |last1=Jones |first2=Robert F. |last2=Yeager |first3=Terry |last3=Doran |first4=Alan |last4=Fletcher |first5=Juliette |last5=Dor |publisher=Methuen}}
* {{cite book |title=Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror |url=https://archive.org/details/terryjonesswaron0000jone |url-access=registration |date=2005 |isbn=1-56025-653-2 |display-authors=0 |first=Terry |last=Jones |publisher=Nation Books}}
*''The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons'' (with Graham Chapman (Estate), John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin; edited by Bob McCabe). {{ISBN|9781409156789}}

;With [[Alan Ereira]]
* {{cite book |title=Crusades |date=1994 |isbn=0-563-37007-6 |display-authors=0 |first1=Terry |last1=Jones |first2=Alan |last2=Ereira |publisher=BBC Books}}
* {{cite book |title=Terry Jones' Medieval Lives |date=2004 |isbn=0-563-48793-3 |display-authors=0 |first1=Terry |last1=Jones |first2=Alan |last2=Ereira |url=https://archive.org/details/terryjonesmediev00terr}}
* {{cite book |title=Terry Jones' Barbarians |url=https://archive.org/details/terryjonesbarbar00jone |url-access=registration |date=2006 |isbn=0-563-49318-6 |display-authors=0 |first1=Terry |last1=Jones |first2=Alan |last2=Ereira |publisher=BBC Books}}

== Filmography ==

=== Television ===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" width=""
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title<ref name=BFI/>
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Year
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Credited as
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Notes
|-
! scope="col" | Writer
! scope="col" | Director
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Frost Report]]''
| 1966–1967
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''A Series of Bird's''
| rowspan="2" | 1967
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Additional material
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Twice a Fortnight]]''
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]''
| 1967–1969
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''Horne A'Plenty''
| rowspan="2" | 1968
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Broaden Your Mind]]''
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Additional material
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Complete and Utter History of Britain]]''
| rowspan="2" | 1969
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Also co-creator
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Marty (TV series)|Marty]]''
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Christmas Night with the Stars]]''
| 1969, 1972
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''
| 1969–1974
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Also co-creator and performer
|-
!scope="row"| ''Frost on Sunday''
| rowspan="2" | 1970
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''Marty Amok''
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| TV special
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Two Ronnies]]''
| 1971–1976
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 13 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus]]''
| 1972
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Black and Blue (TV series)|Black and Blue]]''
| 1973
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Episode: "[[Secrets (1973 play)|Secrets]]"
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Ripping Yarns]]''
| 1976–1979
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Also co-creator
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Secret Policeman's Ball#1977 – The Mermaid Frolics|The Mermaid Frolics]]''
| 1977
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| TV special
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Rupert Bear Story: A Tribute to Alfred Bestall''
| 1982
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| TV documentary
|-
!scope="row"| ''Bombardemagnus''
| 1985
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 2 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]''
| 1992
|{{no}}
| {{yes}}
| Episode: "Barcelona, May 1917"
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Crusades (TV series)|Crusades]]''
| 1995
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 4 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Blazing Dragons]]''
| 1996–1998
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Co-creator and executive producer
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Ancient Inventions]]''
| 1998
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 3 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Hidden History of Egypt''
| rowspan="3" | 2002
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Hidden History of Rome''
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Surprising History of Sex and Love''<ref name="Sex and Love 1">{{cite web |title=The Surprising History of Sex and Love |url=https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/surprising-history-sex-love/ |access-date=22 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Sex and Love 2">{{cite web |title=Ancient World According to Terry Jones, The British Universities Film & Video Council |url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/dvdfind/index.php/title/av74469 |website=British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Terry Jones' Medieval Lives]]''<ref name=tjml/><ref name="Medieval Lives"/>
| 2004
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 8 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Terry Jones' Barbarians]]''<ref name="Barbarians"/>
| 2006
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 4 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Kombat Opera Presents]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC – Comedy – Kombat Opera – Homepage |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/kombatopera/ |website=BBC |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>
| 2007
|{{no}}
| {{yes}}
| Episode: "The South Bragg Show"
|-
|}

==== Television acting roles ====
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" width=""
! Title<ref name=BFI/>
! Year
! Role
! Notes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Twice a Fortnight]]''
| 1967
|rowspan=8| Various characters
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]''
| 1967–1969
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Broaden Your Mind]]''
| 1968
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Complete and Utter History of Britain]]''
| rowspan="2" | 1969
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Marty (TV series)|Marty]]''
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Christmas Night with the Stars]]''
| 1969, 1972
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''
| 1969–1974
| 
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus]]''
| 1972
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Ripping Yarns]]''
| 1976–1979
| Mr. Ellis / Bear / Mr. Moodie / Director
| 
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Secret Policeman's Ball#1977 – The Mermaid Frolics|The Mermaid Frolics]]''
| 1977
| Various characters
| TV special
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''
| 1978
| [[Orson Welles]]' director (voice)
| Episode: "[[Michael Palin]]/[[Eugene Record]]"
|-
!scope="row"| ''Peter Cook & Co.''
| 1980
| Various characters
| TV special
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Rupert Bear Story: A Tribute to Alfred Bestall''
| 1982
| Himself
| TV documentary
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Young Ones (TV series)|The Young Ones]]''
| 1984
| Drunk Vicar
| Episode: "Nasty"
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]''
| 1992
| Marcello
| Episode: "Barcelona, May 1917"
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Jackanory]]''
| 1993
| Reader
| 2 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]''
| 1996
| rowspan="2" | Himself
| Episode: "Explode"
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python Live at Aspen]]''
| 1998
| TV special
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Boy in Darkness]]''
| 2000
| Storyteller
| TV short film
|-
!scope="row"|''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles|The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades]]''
|2001
|Marcello
|TV film (episode "Barcelona, May 1917" with new connecting segments)
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Comedy Lab]]''
| 2001, 2010
| Knife (voice) / Handyman
| 2 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Dinotopia (miniseries)|Dinotopia]]''<ref>{{cite book |last1=McCall |first1=Douglas |title=Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969–2012, 2d ed. |date=2013 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1311-6 |page=218 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTAFAgAAQBAJ&q=%22Terry+Jones%22+%22Dinotopia%22&pg=PA218}}</ref>
| 2002
| Messenger Bird (voice)
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=CBBC – The Legend of Dick and Dom, Series One, Dr Cheese |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jhrzt |website=BBC |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>
| 2009–2011
| Narrator
|
|-
|}

==== Presenter ====
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" width=""
! Title<ref name=BFI/>
! Year
! Notes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Crusades (TV series)|Crusades]]''
| 1995
| 4 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Ancient Inventions]]''
| 1998
| 3 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''Gladiators: The Brutal Truth''
| 2000
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Hidden History of Egypt''
| rowspan="3" | 2002
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Hidden History of Rome''
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Surprising History of Sex and Love''<ref name="Sex and Love 1"/><ref name="Sex and Love 2"/>
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Terry Jones' Medieval Lives]]''<ref name=tjml/><ref name="Medieval Lives"/>
| 2004
| 8 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Story of 1]]''<ref name="Story of 1"/>
| 2005
| Documentary
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Terry Jones' Barbarians]]''<ref name="Barbarians"/>
| 2006
| rowspan="2" | 4 episodes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery]]''<ref name=" Great Map Mystery"/>
| 2008
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Perspectives (TV series)|Perspectives]]''{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
| 2015
| Episode: "In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps"
|-
|}

=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" width=""
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title<ref name=BFI>{{cite web |title=Terry Jones |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f29677b |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217141241/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f29677b |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 February 2016 |website=BFI |access-date=22 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Year
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Credited as
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Notes
|-
! scope="col" | Writer
! scope="col" | Director
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[And Now for Something Completely Different]]''
| 1971
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''
| 1975
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| Co-directed with Terry Gilliam
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]''
| 1979
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| 
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Box''
| 1981
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Short film
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl]]''
| 1982
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
| [[Concert film]]
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]''
| 1983
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Labyrinth (1986 film)|Labyrinth]]''
| 1986
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Personal Services]]''
| 1987
|{{no}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Erik the Viking]]''
| 1989
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Wind in the Willows (1996 film)|The Wind in the Willows]]''
| 1996
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python Live (Mostly)]]''
| 2014
| {{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Absolutely Anything]]''
| 2015
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Boom Bust Boom]]''<ref name=BBB/>
| 2015
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| Documentary
|-
|}

==== Film acting roles ====
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" width=""
! Title<ref name=BFI/>
! Year
! Role
! Notes
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[And Now for Something Completely Different]]''
| 1971
| Various characters
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''
| 1975
| [[Bedivere|Sir Bedevere the Wise]] / Various
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Jabberwocky (film)|Jabberwocky]]''
| 1977
| Poacher
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]''
| 1979
| Various characters
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''The Box''
| 1981
| Harrington (voice)
| Short film
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl]]''
| 1982
| Various characters
| [[Concert film]]
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Crimson Permanent Assurance]]''
| rowspan="2" | 1983
| Very Big Corporation of America Clerk
| Uncredited
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]''
| Various characters
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Erik the Viking]]''
| 1989
| King Arnulf
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[L.A. Story]]''
| 1991
| Sara's Mother (voice)
| Uncredited
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Wind in the Willows (1996 film)|The Wind in the Willows]]''
| 1996
| Mr. Toad
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar]]''
| rowspan="2" | 1999
| [[Obelix]] (voice)
| English version
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Creator (1999 film)|The Creator]]''
| [[God]]
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Help! I'm a Fish]]''
| 2000
| Professor Mac Krill (voice)
| English version
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Locked Out (film)|Locked Out]]''{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
| 2006
| Homeless person
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Anna and the Moods]]''{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
| 2007
| Narrator (voice)
| Short film
|-
!scope="row"| ''King Guillaume''{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
| 2009
| Oxford Professor
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)]]''
| 2010
| Workingman / Mexican / Mountie
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman|A Liar's Autobiography:<br/>The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman]]''
| 2012
| Graham's mother / Various voices
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Monty Python Live (Mostly)]]''
| 2014
| Various characters
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Absolutely Anything]]''
| rowspan="2" | 2015
| Scientist Alien (voice) / Van Driver
|
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Boom Bust Boom]]''<ref name=BBB/>
| Presenter
| Documentary
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[The Land of Sometimes]]''
| TBA
| The Wish Watch (voice)
|
|-
|}

== Documentary series ==
*''The Rupert Bear Story: A Tribute to Alfred Bestall'' (1982)<ref>{{cite web |title=The Rupert Bear Story – A Tribute to Alfred Bestall (1982) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b764c7d20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129173859/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b764c7d20 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 November 2020 |website=BFI |access-date=22 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*''[[Crusades (TV series)|Crusades]]'' (1995)<ref name=BFI/>
*''[[Ancient Inventions]]'' – directed by [[Phil Grabsky]] and Daniel Percival (1998)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ancient Inventions of War, Sex and City Life, with Terry Jones (1998) {{!}} CosmoLearning History |url=https://cosmolearning.org/documentaries/ancient-inventions-with-terry-jones-766/ |website=CosmoLearning |access-date=22 January 2020 |archive-date=25 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025170458/https://cosmolearning.org/documentaries/ancient-inventions-with-terry-jones-766/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''Gladiators: The Brutal Truth'' (2000)<ref name=BFI/>
*''The Surprising History of Egypt'' (USA, 2002) a.k.a. ''The Hidden History of Egypt'' (UK, 2003) – directed by [[Phil Grabsky]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Surprising History Of Egypt, with Terry Jones (2002) {{!}} CosmoLearning History |url=https://cosmolearning.org/documentaries/the-surprising-history-of-egypt-with-terry-jones-769/ |website=CosmoLearning |access-date=22 January 2020 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030125406/https://cosmolearning.org/documentaries/the-surprising-history-of-egypt-with-terry-jones-769/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''The Surprising History of Rome'' (USA, 2002) a.k.a. ''The Hidden History of Rome'' (UK, 2003) – directed by [[Phil Grabsky]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Surprising History of Rome, with Terry Jones (2002) {{!}} CosmoLearning Archaeology |url=https://cosmolearning.org/documentaries/rome-with-terry-jones-discovery-channel/ |website=CosmoLearning |access-date=22 January 2020 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109040828/https://cosmolearning.org/documentaries/rome-with-terry-jones-discovery-channel/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''The Surprising History of Sex and Love'' (2002) – directed by Alan Ereira and [[Phil Grabsky]]<ref name="Sex and Love 1"/><ref name="Sex and Love 2"/>
*''[[Terry Jones' Medieval Lives]]'' (2004)<ref name="Medieval Lives">{{cite web |title=Terry Jones' Medieval Lives |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c1a58315faa641c7a3f8bfc24f786d9f |website=The Radio Times |access-date=22 January 2020 |pages=72 |date=5 February 2004 |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020141159/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c1a58315faa641c7a3f8bfc24f786d9f |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''[[The Story of 1]]'' (2005)<ref name="Story of 1">{{cite news |title=Jones takes care of number one |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4272538.stm |access-date=22 January 2020 |date=28 September 2005}}</ref>
*''[[Terry Jones' Barbarians]]'' (2006)<ref name="Barbarians">{{cite web |title=Terry Jones's Barbarians |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a265737ac3044e099913f5722ddfca2f |website=The Radio Times |access-date=22 January 2020 |pages=110 |date=8 June 2006 |archive-date=26 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026192002/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a265737ac3044e099913f5722ddfca2f |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''[[Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery]]'' (2008)<ref name=" Great Map Mystery">{{cite web |title=BBC Two – Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery, The Road to Aberystwyth |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bbvn3 |website=BBC |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>
*''[[Perspectives (TV series)|In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps with Terry Jones]]'' (2015)<ref>{{cite episode |url=http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep4week20/perspectives-0 |title=In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps with Terry Jones |series=[[Perspectives (TV series)|Perspectives]] |season=5 |number=4 |network=[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] |date=10 May 2015 |access-date=26 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806123422/http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep4week20/perspectives-0 |archive-date=6 August 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''[[Boom Bust Boom]]'' (2015)<ref name=BBB>{{cite web |url=http://www.boombustclick.com/thebigidea.php |title=Boom Bust Boom |access-date=6 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205100258/http://www.boombustclick.com/thebigidea.php |archive-date=5 February 2016 }}</ref>

== Award and recognition ==
*Terry Jones was nominated for [[Grammy Awards]] three times for [[Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album|Best Comedy Recording]]:
# In 1975, for ''[[Matching Tie and Handkerchief]]'' (Album)
# In 1980, for ''[[Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album]]'' (Album)
# In 1983, for ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life'' (Album)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/terry-jones-0|title=Terry Jones|date=19 November 2019|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en|access-date=2 February 2020}}</ref>
* In 1976, his directorial debut film ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' won the [[British Fantasy Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_1976|title=sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 1976|website=www.sfadb.com|access-date=2 February 2020}}</ref>
* In 2016, an [[asteroid]], [[9622 Terryjones]], was named in his honour.<ref>{{cite web | title = IAU Minor Planet Center | work = minorplanetcenter.net | access-date = 1 August 2016 | url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=✓&object_id=9622 }}</ref>
* In 2016, he received a Lifetime Achievement award at the [[BAFTA Cymru]] Awards for his outstanding contribution to television and film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/watch-monty-python-star-terry-8968259|title=Watch Monty Python's Terry Jones' son make emotional speech|last=Reporter|first=Record|date=3 October 2016|website=dailyrecord|access-date=2 February 2020}}</ref>

== See also ==
* {{Portal inline|Children's literature}}
* {{Portal inline|Comedy}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book |last=Wilmut |first=Roger |title=From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy, 1960–1980 |year=1980 |publisher=Eyre Methuen |location=London |isbn=0-413-46950-6}}

== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160217141241/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f29677b Terry Jones] at the [[British Film Institute]]
* {{IMDb name|id=0001402|name=Terry Jones}}
* {{Screenonline name|499825}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050408070446/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/j/jones_terry.shtml Terry Jones] at the [[BBC Guide to Comedy]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060308031338/http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/j/jones-terry.htm Terry Jones] at the Comedy Zone
* {{Discogs artist|Terry Jones}}

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