When Terry Jones went to work, he wore the robes of a Spanish inquisitor, the jacket of a French waiter and the business attire of a man selling crunchy frogs.

And long after he and the other members of Monty Python set off on separate paths, he took on new roles — as a director and historian, among others. After his death on Tuesday, many prominent admirers recalled how he had touched their lives.

“Farewell, Terry Jones. The great foot has come down to stamp on you,” wrote the actor Stephen Fry on Twitter, alluding to the cartoon foot that crashed through many Monty Python sketches. “My god what pleasure you gave, what untrammelled joy and delight.”

The director Edgar Wright began to list some of Mr. Jones’s most famous characters, like one of the Hell’s Grannies and Nigel Incubator-Jones.