A British writer, actor and producer who was famously a member of Monty Python, Jones appeared in all the group’s screen work from Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-1974) onwards and notably co-wrote and co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1979). He received a BAFTA nomination for the song ‘Every Sperm Is Sacred’.