Terry Jones, the much-loved member of the Monty Python comedy troupe and director of films such as The Life of Brian, has been remembered at the 92nd Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Jones, who died aged 77 in January, had been diagnosed with a rare form of dementia in 2015, which rapidly advanced and left him unable to speak.
After huge success with Python in the 1970s and early 80s, including the feature films Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, Jones went on to work on a wide variety of projects. With fellow Python Michael Palin, he created the successful TV series Ripping Yarns, and forged a post-Python directorial career with Personal Services, Erik the Viking and The Wind in the Willows.
He made a number of TV documentaries, specialising in medieval history, wrote nearly 20 children’s books, and contributed a string of comment pieces to the Guardian and Observer denouncing the “war on terror”.
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