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Terry Jones
Actor 1942 - 2020

Terry Jones

Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK

Terence Graham Parry Jones was a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team. At the age of 4, the Jones family moved to... Read full bio →

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21 titles
Absolutely Anything

Absolutely Anything

Terry Jones 2015 1h 25m 6.4

Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.

Monty Python Live (Mostly)

Monty Python Live (Mostly)

Eric Idle, Aubrey Powell 2014 2h 18m 7.5

Celebrate the last night of the Pythons on the big screen! - With John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

The Meaning of Monty Python

The Meaning of Monty Python

Albert Sharpe 2013 1h 6.0

Five Pythons reflect on their creative process, politics, television and the making of their award-winning final film, Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983).

Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy

Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy

Aubrey Powell 2010 1h 32m 4.0

A comic oratorio inspired by Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) filmed at its only European performance at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2009 to celebrate forty years of Monty Python.

King Guillaume

King Guillaume

Pierre-François Martin-Laval 2009 1h 25m 8.0

Magalie and Guillaume are just as much in love as the day they met, living a quiet life in the suburbs, between modest dreams and a long awaited pregnancy. Yet everything gets complicated when Guillaume's contacted by his estranged father.

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Lindsay Jex 2009 1h 30m 7.0

30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.

Enfermés dehors

Enfermés dehors

Albert Dupontel 2006 1h 18m 7.3

Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...

Dinotopia

Dinotopia

2002 1h 26m 4.0

After a plane crash, two opposing half-brothers find themselves on an amazing lost island where enlightened pacifist humans and intelligent talking dinosaurs have created a utopian medieval society. But imminent disaster approaches.

Hjælp! Jeg er en fisk

Hjælp! Jeg er en fisk

Stefan Fjeldmark, Michael Hegner 2000 1h 20m 4.5

Three children accidentally get turned into fish after drinking a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem. They must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.

Le créateur

Le créateur

Albert Dupontel 1999 1h 32m 8.0

Auteur à succès, Darius voit des affiches annonçant sa nouvelle pièce. Soudain pris de panique, il se rappelle qu'il a oublié de l'écrire...

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

Terry Jones 1996 1h 28m 8.5

Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.

L.A. Story

L.A. Story

Mick Jackson 1991 1h 35m 7.0

With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.

Erik the Viking

Erik the Viking

Terry Jones 1989 1h 47m 7.1

Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.

The Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Life

Terry Jones 1983 1h 47m 8.3

Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor.

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

Terry Gilliam 1983 16m 8.0

A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Ian MacNaughton, Terry Hughes 1982 1h 20m 9.1

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a 1982 concert film in which the Monty Python team perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several pre-Python ones.

Life of Brian

Life of Brian

Terry Jones 1979 1h 34m 8.5

A brilliant parody from the British comedy group Monty Python about the history of Jesus. A Terry Jones directed film from 1979 that has since gained cult status.

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

Terry Gilliam 1977 1h 45m 6.9

A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones 1975 1h 31m 8.9

The King Arthur and The Round Table saga about the search for the Holy Grail is portrayed a bit differently in his comedy from Monty Python. With a killer monster rabbit and many outrageous encounters this smart comedy has become a cult classic.

And Now for Something Completely Different

And Now for Something Completely Different

Ian MacNaughton 1971 1h 28m 8.0

And Now for Something Completely Different is a film spin-off from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons.

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus

1969 29m 9.2

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

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