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Terence Graham Parry Jones (born February 1, 1942) is a British comedian and writer.

Education and comedy

Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, and attended the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he was head boy; he graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford

He appeared in Twice a Fortnight with Michael Palin, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Jonathan Lynn.

Terry Jones also appeared in Do Not Adjust Your Set with Michael Palin, Eric Idle and David Jason. (Terry Jones speaks about this series during an interview which appears on both Do Not Adjust Your Set DVD, and At Last the 1948 Show DVD).

Terry Jones wrote for The Frost Report and several other of David Frost's programmes on British television.

He was a member of the team of writers and performers that made Monty Python's Flying Circus. As a Python, Jones is remembered for his roles as middle-aged women and the "man in the street". He co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail
and directed Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life
.

He co-wrote with Michael Palin Ripping Yarns, and wrote the screenplay for Labyrinth
(1986). He has also written several books on mediæval history and numerous works for children. He is the director of several movies, including Erik the Viking
(1989) and The Wind in the Willows (1996) as well as the Monty Python films mentioned above. He also hosted a documentary on the crusades. More recently he has written numerous anti-war editorials for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the Observer. Jones is married to Alison Telfer and has two children.

Publications

Fiction

Fairy Tales - 1981
The Saga of Erik the Viking - 1983 (Children's Book Award 1984)
Nicobobinus - 1985
Fantastic Stories - 1992
The Knights and the Squire - 1997
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic - 1997, a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams. Jones claims to have written the entire book while in the nude.
The Lady and the Squire - 2001 (nominated for a Whitbread Award)

with Brian Froud

The Goblins of the Labyrinth - 1986
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book - 1994
The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins - 1996 (an abridged re-release of The Goblins of the Labyrinth, in a smaller format with the colour plates missing)
Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Quentin Cottington's Journal of Faery Research - 1996

Non-fiction

Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary - 1980, (updated 1994)
Foreword to The Quest for King Arthur by David Day - 1995
Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery with Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher
and Juliette Dor - 2003
Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python - 2004

Television

Terry Jones has presented several factual television programmes, notably the BBC documentary series The Crusades (1996), Ancient Inventions (1998) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (2004). The Story of One (2005)

Screenplays

Secrets (TV) 1973, with Michael Palin
Labyrinth
- 1986
Erik the Viking
- 1989, which includes a notice in the credits specifically disclaiming any link with Jones's earlier novel ("although he hopes it will help the sales")
The Wind in the Willows - 1996

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