Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director and historian, best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.\n', '

After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in history, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin (whom he met at Oxford) 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 Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman, 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 punchlines. He made his directorial debut with the team\'s first film, 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.\n', '

After Python, Jones\' most well-known television project was the anthology series Ripping Yarns, which he co-created and co-wrote with Palin. He also wrote an early draft of Jim Henson\'s 1986 film Labyrinth, though little of his work remained in the final cut. He is a fairly well-respected Medieval historian, having written several books and presented television documentaries about the period, as well as a prolific children\'s book author.\n', '

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