Terry Jones, Monty Python Founder and Scholar, Is Dead at 77

In count to alive thing a charter aficionada of the much-admired British sketch troupe, he was a director, a screenwriter and an authority on the subject of Chaucer.

Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, in symbol to Feb. 1, 1942, right bang slap in the centre of World War II, as he put it in The Pythons Autobiography.

Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, concerning Feb. 1, 1942, right bang slap in the center of World War II, as he put it in The Pythons Autobiography.Credit...Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press

Neil Genzlinger

By Neil Genzlinger

Jan. 22, 2020

Updated 11:08 a.m. ET

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Terry Jones, who earned a spot in comedic lore as a lover of the British troupe Monty Python and plus had bureau as a director, screenwriter and author, died Tuesday night. He was 77.

His ex-wife, Alison Telfer, confirmed the death. Mr. Jones announced in 2016 that he had primary sophisticated aphasia, a neurological disease that impairs the completion to communicate.

Mr. Jones, four added Britons  Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese and Graham Chapman  and an American, Terry Gilliam, formed Monty Python in 1969. Their television sketch pretense, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, became a phenomenon, first in Britain and later in the United States along in the middle of it was rebroadcast there in the mid-1970s.

The performance worked a surreal brand of humor that was markedly interchange from most television fare. It led to And Now for Something Completely Different, a 1971 movie that was truly a include of skits from the TV pretend, and later several supplement feature films.