Monty Python star Terry Jones died after losing his battle with dementia earlier this week - and one word which has been used to describe him repeatedly is 'kind'.
While a statement from his family described Jones as a "kind, funny, warm, creative and truly loving man," his fellow Python Terry Gilliam described him as 'kind and generous'.
But it's not just those closest to him who have described him in this way.
Other people who interacted with the writer, actor and director have used similar adjectives to describe him, with people who worked with him, or just happened to bump into him, using social media to share stories of his kindness.
Hollywood actress Minnie Driver posted a story describing a chance meeting with Jones in the early 1990s before she found fame as an actress.
She wrote: "I was lost, on my way to an audition in 1992. Rather desperately, I stopped a man for directions. He started to explain but then said it would be easier to show me.
"He walked me there, told some stories, then came in to charm the casting director because I was late."
I was lost, on my way to an audition in 1992. Rather desperately, I stopped a man for directions. He started to explain but then said it would be easier to show me.He walked me there,told some stories,then came in to charm the casting director because I was late. #TerryJonesRIP
— Minnie Driver (@driverminnie) January 22, 2020
She added: "What a kind, beloved genius he was."
In response to Driver's tweet, another Twitter user wrote: "In 2015 a little after his diagnosis with dementia, I walked a little way behind him on his way from the BFI to Waterloo station after a screening of a Preston Sturges movie and I saw that each time he passed a homeless person he stopped and gave them paper money."
Fellow comedian Adrian Edmondson also had a tale of Jones's kindness.
He wrote of the Life of Brian director: "Terry Jones was the only Python who agreed to appear in The Young Ones. It was like affirmation from God himself.
Terry Jones was the only Python who agreed to appear in The Young Ones. It was like affirmation from God himself. This was the man who’d directed what was, and still is, the funniest feature film ever made. We loved him for it, and always will. Sadly, he’s eaten his last mint...
— Adrian Edmondson (@AdrianEdmondson) January 22, 2020
"This was the man who’d directed what was, and still is, the funniest feature film ever made. We loved him for it, and always will. Sadly, he’s eaten his last mint."
Hollywood actor Tim Robbins, who worked with the star on Erik and the Viking, said: "A kind, lovely, generous man. And a comic genius who, with the Pythons, defined what comedy could be for my generation.
"I cherished the time I got to spend with him. Rest In Peace."
Writer Jon Ronson said: "For a person my age Monty Python was like punk and The Beatles and Peter Cook all rolled into one.
For a person my age Monty Python was like punk and The Beatles and Peter Cook all rolled into one. I never stopped listening to the albums. And on the few occasions I met Terry Jones he was incredibly nice. What's better than being funny and kind?
— jon ronson (@jonronson) January 22, 2020
"I never stopped listening to the albums. And on the few occasions I met Terry Jones he was incredibly nice. What's better than being funny and kind?"
