British actor Terry Jones became famous for the comedy show "Monty Python". However, they know the artist as a composer, screenwriter and director, as well as a children's writer. He is also known as a popular historian.
Biography of Terence Graham Perry Jones began in 1942. The future artist was born in Colvin Bay on the first February day in the family of a bank clerk. In addition to Terry, his parents already had a baby, Nigel.
Search for the work of life
With a five-year-old baby and older son, the adults moved to Clayget. At Royal Guildford High School, Jones Jr. completed a course of study. After completing his studies, the graduate decided to continue his education in Oxford, at the College of St. Edmund. He studied English literature and language.
During study, the student met with Michael Palin. Together, the guys composed sketches for the student experimental theater and performed on stage. One of their common creations was the comedy play "Bow Your Head and Die." The production was successfully shown several times at the Oxford Playhouse, a local theater, in the capital's Comedy Theater. Future colleagues organized the Oxford Review comedy group from students. They themselves performed with her in Edinburgh at a theater festival in 1964.
After graduating from university, Terry worked on the television channel England Television. Then again, she began working with Palin in the script department on the BBC television service. For comedy shows by Ken Dodd and David Frost, recent students wrote sketches. They created the script of the series "Do not twist the tuning knob", the program "Complete and final history of Britain", in a humorous manner.
The young screenwriters made friends with their counterparts in the United States and animator Terry Gilliam. Soon, with him, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the British founded the author's show "Monty Python's Air Circus". The program went down in history as a comedy attraction, previously unknown. It combined burlesque, satire and grotesque with black humor.
Success and recognition
Over time, the program won a lot of fans and had an impact on entire generations of comedy artists. On British television, the project went from 1969 to 1974. During the shows, Jones completely took place both as a screenwriter and a talented artist. On the screen, he appeared in the most unexpected images. Terry appeared before the audience and the elderly, who loved to grumble the mother of the family, who is already well over 50, and reincarnated in other no less colorful characters.
After completing the broadcasts of his own show, together with Gillian, Jones created and directed an absurd full-length comedy from the time of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table entitled "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." History is masterfully beaten in a humorous manner. The king meets both the peasants of the anarcho-syndicalists, and the Black Knight, and a group of French scoffers who occupied the castle with the Holy Grail. The final of the film shocks viewers with its unpredictability.
Many of the characters bred by Terry, turned into independent, migrating to other works. In the new comedy, the author played several roles at once, the main of which was Bedever the Wise. The new work in 1976 was the film "The Life of Brian." The success of the comedy was huge.
In a satirical and even evil form, "The Meaning of Life by Monty Python" is filmed. The 1983 project is composed of several plots. According to them, a person’s life can be traced from the moment of birth to death. The work was nominated for the Golden Palm Branch and received a special prize from the Cannes Film Festival jury.
New facets of talent
With the participation of Jones, they also performed live performances of "Monty Python" and recorded albums with their sketches and songs. The latter sounded in television programs, films. Based on publications, an original show was created in 1971. In the second half of the seventies, Terry and his long-time colleague Michael Palin created the series “Funny Stories”. The main characters in it were played by Palin, and Jones became a screenwriter, only in one episode flashed on the screen.
In 1986, the acclaimed artist was among the screenwriters working on the fabulous film "The Labyrinth." Based on the play by Palin and Jones, Consumer Passions is also filmed. Terry's directorial ideas are also diverse. In 1987, viewers saw his black comedy "Private Services". Her main character was a single mother. She decided to open a brothel. The inspiration for the writers was the memories of the owner of such an institution.
Fantasy project "Eric Viking" filmed in 1989 according to the book of Terry Jones himself. He wrote it for his son. The plot unfolds in a difficult time. The protagonist understands that the lifestyle adopted by the Vikings is wrong. Eric decides to change everything completely after the death of his beloved, Helga.
Together with the detachment, the guy intends to get to the mysterious country of High Brazil to find the horn there and blow three times into it. This will wake the sleeping gods and return the heroes home to their Asgard.
Realizing that such a decision will put an end to his profitable business, Loki, hiding under the guise of a local blacksmith, is trying to prevent the campaign. In the film, the screenwriter and director played the role of the king.
