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Author Description <i>Librarian note:<br />There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name</i><br /><br />Terence Graham Parry Jones was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian, writer and member of the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22132672._Monty_Python" title=" Monty Python" rel="nofollow noopener"> Monty Python</a> comedy troupe.<br />After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and writing partner <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13819._Michael_Palin" title=" Michael Palin" rel="nofollow noopener"> Michael Palin</a> 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 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13820._Graham_Chapman" title=" Graham Chapman" rel="nofollow noopener"> Graham Chapman</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11777._John_Cleese" title=" John Cleese" rel="nofollow noopener"> John Cleese</a>, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13785._Eric_Idle" title=" Eric Idle" rel="nofollow noopener"> Eric Idle</a> and American animator-filmmaker <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13811._Terry_Gilliam" title=" Terry Gilliam" rel="nofollow noopener"> Terry Gilliam</a>. 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.<br />Jones co-created and co-wrote with Palin the anthology series Ripping Yarns. He also wrote an early draft of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4427._Jim_Henson" title=" Jim Henson" rel="nofollow noopener"> Jim Henson</a>'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.

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