Terry Jones
Member of the Monty Python's Flying Circus team, academic and TV presenter.
- Born:
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1942
- Place of Birth:
- Colwyn Bay
I grew up hearing tales of my grandparents running the Colwyn Bay Amateur Operatic Society and staging Gilbert and Sullivan concerts on the Pier every year, so it's great to finally break into Colwyn Bay showbiz as patron of the theatre.
Terry Jones
- Trivia:
- Terry Jones is patron of Theatr Colwyn.
- Biography:
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Terrence Graham Parry Jones was an integral member of one of the most innovative comedy troupes in global comedy, Monty Python.
Though he moved from Colwyn Bay to Claygate, Surrey, at the age of five, Terry Jones still considers himself a true Welshman, and proved his credentials by becoming captain of his school rugby team. Whilst at university in Oxford, Terry Jones met up with one Michael Palin, and thus began a successful comedy writing team which spawned BBC hits such as The Late Show and the Frost Review show. They then met up with Messrs John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle and the rest, as they say, is history. Terry Jones not only wrote and performed with the Pythons, but also directed many of their zany films, including the Holy Grail, 1975, the Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983). Post Python, he worked behind the scenes on other films such as Personal Services, Erik the Viking and Labyrinth. Not content with entertaining the adult world and under the inspiration of his own children, Terry also turned his hand to writing some children's books, which include The Curse of the Vampire Socks, Fantastic Stories, Nicobonimus and with his old friend Michael Palin, Dr Fogg's Encyclopaedia of All Knowledge After his studies at Oxford, Terry has maintained his interest in Medieval history and is rather an expert on the subject.
 Listen to Terry Jones talking to Aled Jones on BBC Radio Wales about his next TV project, terry Jones' Great Map Mystery, for which he was filming in north Wales.
Listen to Terry Jones recalling his childhood in Colwyn Bay on Aled Jones's BBC Radio Wales Sunday morning show. Terry Jones on Philip Pullman.
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Dusty, Colwyn Bay
His parents are burried in Llanelian.
Mon Sep 25 10:57:09 2006
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