Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942?2020)
"Terence Jones" redirects here. For the American basketball player, see
Terrence Jones
.
Terry Jones
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Jones in 2014
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Born
| Terence Graham Parry Jones
(
1942-02-01
)
1 February 1942
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Died
| 21 January 2020
(2020-01-21)
(aged 77)
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Alma mater
| St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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Occupations
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- Actor
- comedian
- director
- historian
- writer
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Years active
| 1966?2016
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Known for
| One of the six members of
Monty Python
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Spouses
|
Alison Telfer
(
m.
1970;
div.
2012)
Anna Soderstrom
(
m.
2012)
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Children
| 3
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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 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
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
Before Python and early Python
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
"[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 410 AD to propaganda.
[41]
Column writing
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
Jones was a member of the
Poetry Society
, and his poems have appeared in
Poetry Review
.
[46]
Work with musicians
[
edit
]
Jones performed with the
Carnival Band
and appears on their 2007 CD
Ringing the Changes
.
[47]
[48]
In January 2008, the
Teatro Sao 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 Sao Luiz to write and direct the play, after a successful run of
Contos Fantasticos
, 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
[
edit
]
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 Createur
(1999) and
Enfermes 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 O
2
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
[
edit
]
Marriages
[
edit
]
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 Soderstrom; she was 41 years his junior and they had been in a relationship for five years.
[59]
In September 2009, Soderstrom and Jones had a daughter,
[60]
and in 2012 they married.
[2]
The family settled in
Highgate
,
North London
.
[61]
Political views
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
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]
and 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
[
edit
]
Fiction
[
edit
]
- Illustrated by
Michael Foreman
- 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
Whitbread Award
- Bedtime Stories
(2002),
ISBN
1-86205-276-X
? with
Nanette Newman
- Animal Tales
(2011),
ISBN
978-1843651635
- Illustrated by
Brian Froud
- Illustrated by
Martin Honeysett
and Lolly Honeysett
Non-fiction
[
edit
]
- Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary
. Orion Publishing Group, Limited. 1980.
ISBN
0-297-77566-9
.
; rev. ed. (1994),
ISBN
0-413-69140-3
- Jones, Terry; Yeager, Robert F.; Doran, Terry; Fletcher, Alan; D'or, Juliett (2003).
Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery
. Methuen.
ISBN
0-413-75910-5
.
- Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror
. Nation Books. 2005.
ISBN
1-56025-653-2
.
- 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
Filmography
[
edit
]
Television
[
edit
]
Television acting roles
[
edit
]
Presenter
[
edit
]
Film
[
edit
]
Film acting roles
[
edit
]
Documentary series
[
edit
]
Award and recognition
[
edit
]
- 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)
[89]
See also
[
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]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
"Terry Jones"
.
BBC Wales
. 7 October 2009.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
Pulver, Andrew (22 January 2020).
"Terry Jones, Monty Python founder and Life of Brian director, dies aged 77"
.
The Guardian
.
ISSN
0261-3077
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
Stolworthy, Jacob.
"Terry Jones death: Monty Python star and Life of Brian director dies, aged 77"
.
The Independent
.
- ^
Something about the Author
. Gale Research. 24 January 2002.
ISBN
9780787647155
– via Google Books.
- ^
Jones, Terry (2014).
"In which we are born"
. In McCabe, Bob (ed.).
The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons
. London, England: Hachette, UK.
ISBN
978-1-4091-5678-9
.
OCLC
893659625
.
- ^
Genzlinger, Neil (22 January 2020).
"Terry Jones, Monty Python Founder and Scholar, Is Dead at 77"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
29 January
2020
.
- ^
"Royal Air Force"
(PDF)
.
www.thegazette.co.uk
. 27 March 1942
. Retrieved
29 January
2020
.
- ^
"Terry Jones biography"
.
www.cardinalfang.net
. Retrieved
29 January
2020
.
- ^
Bevan, Nathan (23 September 2016).
"Classic interview with Terry Jones: 'It's a big surprise that people still want to talk about Monty Python'
"
.
Wales Online
. Retrieved
29 January
2020
.
- ^
Bevan, Nathan (5 March 2011).
"The life and times of Monty Python's Terry Jones by Nathan Bevan, Western Mail at"
.
Wales Online
. Retrieved
1 June
2011
.
- ^
"Distinguished Old Guildfordians ? Terry Jones"
.
Royal Grammar School, Guildford Website
. Archived from
the original
on 30 November 2009
. Retrieved
9 February
2011
.
- ^
Wilmut, Roger (1980).
From Fringe to Flying Circus
. London, England: Oxford Books. p. 38.
ISBN
978-0413507709
.
- ^
"An interview with Terry Jones"
.
IGN
. 21 January 2004. Archived from
the original
on 13 July 2011
. Retrieved
29 June
2008
.
- ^
Leopold, Todd (13 April 2005).
"A Python Gets Serious"
.
CNN
. Retrieved
11 September
2018
.
- ^
"A Python's progress"
.
Oxford Today
.
22
(2). Oxford, England:
Oxford University
. Archived from
the original
on 20 June 2010
. Retrieved
1 June
2011
.
- ^
"Michael Palin interview"
.
Chap.co.uk
. 19 September 2018
. Retrieved
28 August
2019
.
- ^
"The Frost Report"
. BBC
. Retrieved
9 July
2016
.
- ^
"Jimmy Gilbert, BBC producer who presided over a golden age of light entertainment ? obituary"
.
The Daily Telegraph
. 8 June 2016.
Archived
from the original on 12 January 2022
. Retrieved
9 July
2016
.
- ^
"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
.
BBC
. Retrieved
24 August
2019
.
- ^
"Monty Python's Terry Jones: Master of the absurd"
.
BBC News
. 22 January 2020.
- ^
Andrews, Nigel (23 January 2020).
"Terry Jones, actor, writer and director, 1942?2020"
.
Financial Times
. Archived from
the original
on 10 December 2022.
- ^
Martin, Francesca (16 January 2008).
"Ex-Python's opera rings the changes"
.
The Guardian
. London
. Retrieved
11 September
2018
.
- ^
Williams, Holly (27 February 2011).
"Heads Up: Operashots"
.
The Independent
. London. Archived from
the original
on 17 August 2018
. Retrieved
11 September
2018
.
- ^
Taylor, Craig (2015).
Moralism: A Study of a Vice
. Routledge. p. 171.
ISBN
978-1-317-54771-6
.
- ^
Gioia, Michael (27 February 2014).
"Monty Python Members, Eddie Izzard, Robin Williams and More Among Cast of
Absolutely Anything
Film"
.
Playbill
. Playbill, Inc. Archived from
the original
on 2 March 2014.
- ^
"In Conversation: Terry Jones (Director ? Absolutely Anything, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Wind in the Willows)"
.
Film Doctor
. 15 April 2015. Archived from
the original
on 25 February 2021
. Retrieved
11 September
2018
.
- ^
Jones, Terry.
"Marty Feldman and 'Jeepers Creepers': Why Terry Jones is celebrating the comic on stage"
.
The Independent
.
- ^
"Terry Jones"
. WorldCat
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2020
.
- ^
a
b
"Terry Jones | Honorary Fellow"
.
St Edmund Hall
. Archived from
the original
on 13 October 2019
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
"A pint with Terry Jones"
.
morningadvertiser.co.uk
. 10 September 2008.
- ^
Boak, Jessica (19 June 2014).
"12 things you didn't know about British beer"
.
Archived
from the original on 12 January 2022 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
, "Bookshelf",
The Cricketer
, January 1982, p. 35.
- ^
a
b
"Terry Jones"
.
Writers of Wales
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
a
b
"Terry Jones"
.
Fantastic Fiction
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
"The Terry Jones Labyrinth Interview"
.
angelfire.com
.
- ^
Perry, George (2007).
The Life of Python
. p. 40. Pavilion
- ^
Turner, Marion (24 January 2020).
"Terry Jones: professional comic, amateur historian, accomplished human being"
.
The Conversation
. The Conversation UK
. Retrieved
20 March
2023
.
- ^
Myerson, Jonathan (15 November 2003).
"Review: Who Murdered Chaucer?"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
11 September
2018
.
- ^
"Terry Jones' Medieval Lives"
.
emmys.com
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
a
b
c
"Python slams 'overrated' Renaissance"
.
BBC News
. 23 February 2004
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
"BBC One ? Terry Jones's Barbarians"
.
BBC
.
- ^
"A Python gets serious"
. CNN
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
Jones, Terry (11 November 2011).
"How a new online venture helped to publish Evil Machines"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
11 September
2018
.
- ^
Neill, Graeme (19 July 2011).
"Terry Jones first Unbound author | The Bookseller"
.
The Bookseller
. Retrieved
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.
- ^
"Terry Jones"
.
Unbound
. Archived from
the original
on 30 September 2020
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
"The Yorkshire Post video interview: Python Terry Jones"
.
yorkshirepost.co.uk
. 3 April 2009. Archived from
the original
on 27 June 2018
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
Denselow, Robin (14 December 2007).
"CD: Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, Ringing the Changes"
.
theguardian.com
.
- ^
"Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band ? Ringing The Changes"
.
Discogs
. 10 December 2007.
- ^
"Ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones blends machines, opera in new show"
.
The Spokesman Review
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
"Website featuring Canadian doctor, Monty Python pal blends humour, health advice"
.
ca.news.yahoo.com
. 19 January 2012
. Retrieved
23 January
2012
.
[
dead link
]
- ^
"Enfermes Dehors (2006)"
.
BFI
. Archived from
the original
on 28 October 2020
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
"Le Createur (1999)"
.
BFI
. Archived from
the original
on 5 May 2019
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
"Monty Python live (mostly), review: poignant and predictable, but tremendous fun"
.
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.
Archived
from the original on 12 January 2022
. Retrieved
21 July
2014
.
- ^
"John Cleese and Mick Jagger are wrong ? Monty Python's silly walks are still hilarious"
.
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. Retrieved
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2019
.
- ^
"Monty Python star Terry Jones and son tearful at Bafta ceremony ? video"
.
The Guardian
. 3 October 2016.
- ^
"Bafta award an 'honour' for Terry Jones"
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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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