The member of the popular British group of comedians Monty Python Terry Jones has died Tuesday at his home in London at age 77 "after a long battle against dementia," his family said today.
The actor and comedian directed some of the most remembered works of the emblematic formation, including the acclaimed Brian's life and appeared in the television series of the Monty Python of the Flying Circus, playing several characters.
In 2016, it was announced that Jones, also well remembered for his incarnations of a drag queen , suffered from dementia.
"We are deeply saddened to have to announce the death of our dear husband and father," her family confirmed today in a statement.
The comedian died yesterday afternoon at age 77 "with his wife Anna Soderstrom at his side", after a "long and extremely brave battle, in which he was always in a good mood, with a rare form of dementia, called FTD ", as the note added.
His relatives stress that his "work with the Monty Python, his books, movies, television programs, poems and other projects will live forever."
Jones directed the film Monty Python And the Holy Grail in 1975 along with Terry Gilliam, as well as the aforementioned Brian's Life, in 1979, considered the funniest classic comedy, according to the result of a survey published by Total Film magazine.
The comedian, who had two children with his first wife, Alison Telfer, and a third with his second wife, Anna Soderstrom, at 67, also directed The Meaning of Life, in 1983, the last film that the comic group made on the whole.
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