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Terry Jones
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Terry Jones was a Welsh performer and creative who worked as an actor, comedian, director, historian, and writer during his lifetime (1942–2020). He is remembered for his versatile contributions to entertainment and the arts across multiple disciplines.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1942
- Died
- 2020
- Works
- 79
Top works
- Sefinat he-ḥalal Ṭiṭaniḳ
- The curse of the vampire's socks and other doggerel
- Pythons' Autobiography by the Pythons
- The fly-by-night
- Nicobobinus
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 875
- Total plays
- 4,843
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Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942 died 21 January 2020) was a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. He was best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team. As a member of the Monty Python troupe, Jones was remembered for his roles as middle-aged women and the bowler-hatted "man in the street". He typically wrote sketches in partnership with Palin. <a href="https://www.last.fm
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,528x
- A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research
· 2016 · cited 23,644x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,919x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,514x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
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Quotes
- “A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon.”
- “It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.”
- “Saying "We will destroy terrorism" is about as meaningful as saying: "We shall annihilate mockery."”
- “What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.”
- “Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?”
- “Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages?...I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears – Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's, Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.terry-jones.net
- Image
- Terry Jones in 2007.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of birth
- 1942-02-01
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- Terry Jones
- name in native language
- Terry Jones
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
- date of death
- 2020-01-21
- end of work period
- 2016-00-00
- birth name
- Terence Graham Parry Jones
- social media followers
- 247110
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Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) 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 Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. His other directorial credits include Personal Services and The Wind in the Willows.