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Jones was born in [[New Jersey]],<ref>https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHZR-DBJ</ref> and was raised in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. He was the son of Helen ([[married and maiden names|née]] Burk) and John Francis Xavier Jones. He was the grandson of Pennsylvania Representative [[Henry Burk]], a German immigrant. Jones attended the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Saint Joseph's Preparatory School]]. |
Jones was born in [[New Jersey]],<ref>https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHZR-DBJ</ref> and was raised in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. He was the son of Helen ([[married and maiden names|née]] Burk) and John Francis Xavier Jones. He was the grandson of Pennsylvania Representative [[Henry Burk]], a German immigrant. Jones attended the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Saint Joseph's Preparatory School]]. |
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Jones is remembered for his role as handyman Leroy Jessup in the movie ''[[The Bad Seed (1956 film)|The Bad Seed]]'' (1956), a role he originated on Broadway. Other theater credits included ''[[My Sister Eileen (play)|My Sister Eileen]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[The Time of Your Life]]'', ''[[They Knew What They Wanted (play)|They Knew What They Wanted]]'', ''[[The Solid Gold Cadillac]]'', and ''[[Sunrise at Campobello]]'', for which he won the [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play]], and the [[Outer Critics Circle Award]] for Performance in a Drama.<ref>[http://www.outercritics.org/AwardArchives.aspx?_y=1957-1958 Awards Archive<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
Jones is remembered for his role as handyman Leroy Jessup in the movie ''[[The Bad Seed (1956 film)|The Bad Seed]]'' (1956), a role he originated on Broadway. Other theater credits included ''[[My Sister Eileen (play)|My Sister Eileen]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[The Time of Your Life]]'', ''[[They Knew What They Wanted (play)|They Knew What They Wanted]]'', ''[[The Solid Gold Cadillac]]'', and ''[[Sunrise at Campobello]]'', for which he won the [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play]], and the [[Outer Critics Circle Award]] for Performance in a Drama.<ref>[http://www.outercritics.org/AwardArchives.aspx?_y=1957-1958 Awards Archive<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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Jones appeared in more than 180 films and television shows. His screen credits included ''[[The Girl Can't Help It]]'', ''[[3:10 to Yuma (1957 film)|3:10 to Yuma]]'', ''[[Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?]]'', ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]'', ''[[Cash McCall]]'', ''[[The Bramble Bush]]'', ''[[Rascal (film)|Rascal]]'', ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'', ''[[Dirty Dingus Magee]]'', ''[[Support Your Local Gunfighter]]'', ''[[9 to 5 (film)|9 to 5]]'' and ''[[Arachnophobia (film)|Arachnophobia]]''. |
Jones appeared in more than 180 films and television shows. His screen credits included ''[[The Girl Can't Help It]]'', ''[[3:10 to Yuma (1957 film)|3:10 to Yuma]]'', ''[[Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?]]'', ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]'', ''[[Cash McCall]]'', ''[[The Bramble Bush]]'', ''[[Rascal (film)|Rascal]]'', ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'', ''[[Dirty Dingus Magee]]'', ''[[Support Your Local Gunfighter]]'', ''[[9 to 5 (film)|9 to 5]]'' and ''[[Arachnophobia (film)|Arachnophobia]]''. |
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Henry Jones | |
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Born | Henry Burk Jones August 1, 1912 New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | May 17, 1999 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 86)
Cause of death | Complications from a fall |
Years active | 1943-1996 |
Spouse(s) | Yvonne Bergere (1942; her death) Judy Briggs (1946-61; divorce; 2 children) |
Henry Burk Jones (August 1, 1912 – May 17, 1999) was an American character actor of stage, film and television.
Life and career
Jones was born in New Jersey,[1] and was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Helen (née Burk) and John Francis Xavier Jones. He was the grandson of Pennsylvania Representative Henry Burk, a German immigrant. Jones attended the Jesuit Saint Joseph's Preparatory School.
Jones is remembered for his role as handyman Leroy Jessup in the movie The Bad Seed (1956), a role he originated on Broadway. Other theater credits included My Sister Eileen, Hamlet, The Time of Your Life, They Knew What They Wanted, The Solid Gold Cadillac, and Sunrise at Campobello, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Performance in a Drama.[2]
Jones appeared in more than 180 films and television shows. His screen credits included The Girl Can't Help It, 3:10 to Yuma, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Vertigo, Cash McCall, The Bramble Bush, Rascal, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dirty Dingus Magee, Support Your Local Gunfighter, 9 to 5 and Arachnophobia.
On television, Jones' best remembered role was as the title character's father-in-law in the 1970s CBS sitcom Phyllis.
Jones portrayed Jed McCoy on a 1961 episode of the ABC sitcom, The Real McCoys, starring Walter Brennan, with fellow guest stars Pat Buttram and Jane Darwell as Cousin Carl and "Grandma McCoy", respectively. In the story line, the California McCoys return to West Virginia for Grandmother McCoy's 100th birthday.[3]
He had a regular role on the ABC drama Channing, with Jason Evers.
Jones also appeared on Appointment with Adventure, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Eleventh Hour, Bewitched, Night Gallery, Emergency!, The Mod Squad, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Thriller, Adam-12, The Doris Day Show, Father Knows Best, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Untouchables, MacGyver, Mr. Belvedere, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
He played Dr. Smith's cousin in a 1966 episode of CBS's Lost In Space, "Curse Of Cousin Smith", and alongside R.J. Hoferkamp in the 1968 made-for-television western movie Something for a Lonely Man. In 1967 he guest starred in the episode "A Time to Die" of the Sci-Fi TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea's 4th season. Starting in 1974, he guest starred three times on The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Jeffrey/Chester Dolenz. This character was a brilliant scientist who built lifelike robots, but although every plot was foiled he still managed to escape to fight another day.
In 1978, he appeared in the Barney Miller episode: "The Prisoner".
In the mid 1980s, Jones appeared at local dining theatre productions including Winnipeg's 'Stage West'.
Personal life and death
Jones died in Los Angeles, California, at age 86, from complications from injuries suffered in a fall at his home in Santa Monica.[4]
His daughter is actress Jocelyn Jones.
Filmography
Film
1943 | This Is the Army | Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer |
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1949 | Strawhat Cinderella | Stage Director | Short film directed and written by Justin Herman. |
1950 | Cowboy Crazy | Papa in his study | Short film directed by and written by Justin Herman. |
1951 | The Lady Says No | Potsy | Comedy film directed by Frank Ross.[6] |
1953 | Society Man | Narrator | Short film directed and produced by Justin Herman. |
Taxi | Thorndike |
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1956 | The Bad Seed | Leroy Jessup | Thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy |
1957 | 3:10 To Yuma | Alex Potter | Western film directed by Delmer Daves. |
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Henry Rufus | Satirical comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin | |
1958 | Vertigo | Coroner | Drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock |
1960 | Cash McCall | Gilmore Clark | Romantic drama film directed by Joseph Pevney |
1965 | Never Too Late | Dr. James Kimbrough | Comic feature film directed by Bud Yorkin |
1968 | Stay Away, Joe | Hy Slager | Western-comic film directed by Peter Tewksbury |
1969 | Angel in My Pocket | Mayor Will Sinclair | Comic feature directed by Alan Rafkin |
1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Bike Salesman | Western directed by George Roy Hill |
1971 | Support Your Local Gunfighter | Ez | Comic western film directed by Burt Kennedy |
1973 | Tom Sawyer | Mr. Dobbins | Musical film adaptation directed by Don Taylor |
1980 | Nine to Five | Hinkle | Comedy film directed by Colin Higgins |
1982 | Deathtrap | Porter Milgrim | Drama film directed by Sidney Lumet |
1990 | Dick Tracy | Night Clerk | Action comic film directed by Warren Beatty |
Arachnophobia | Dr. Sam Metcalf | Thriller directed by Frank Marshall | |
The Grifters | Mr. Simms | Neo-noir crime drama film directed by Stephen Frears | |
1994 | Breathing Lessons (TV Movie) | Sam | Henry Jones' Last Film |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1949 | Hands of Murder | Guest | Episode: "A Room Full of Water" (S 1:Ep 12) |
1950 | Studio One | Guest | Episode: "The Dusty Godmother: (S 2:Ep 27) |
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | Charles Jones | Episode: "The Kleebob Card Game" (S 1:Ep 1) | |
Danger | Guest | Episode: "Another Man's Poison" (s 1:Ep 11) | |
The Ford Theatre Hour | Guest | Episode: "Father Malachy's Miracle" (S 2:Ep 16) | |
Actors Studio | Guest | Episode: "The Timid Guy" (S 2:Ep 18) | |
Danger | Guest | Episode: "Surprise for the Boys" (S 1:Ep 14) | |
1951 | Danger | Guest | Episode: "Footfalls" (S 1:Ep 16) |
Armstrong Circle Theatre | Guest | Episode: "The Big Rainbow" (S 2:Ep 47) | |
The Web | Himself | Episode:"A Switch in Time" (S 1:Ep 47) | |
Prudential Family Playhouse | Guest | Epispode: "Ruggles of Red Gap" (S 1:Ep 11) | |
Big Town | Guest | Episode: "The Return" (S 1:Ep 28) | |
Danger | Guest | Episode: "Death Gambles" (S 1:Ep 45) | |
The Philco Television Playhouse | Guest | Episode: "Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands" (S 3:Ep 48) | |
The Web | Himself | Episode: "The Dishonorable Thief" (S 1:Ep 60) | |
Big Town | Guest | Episode: "Neighborhood Story" (S 1:Ep 42) | |
The Web | Himself | Episode: "All the Way to the Moon" (S 2:Ep 2) | |
Armstrong Circle Theatre | Guest | Episode: "Marionettes" (S 3:Ep 13) | |
Schlitz Playhouse | Guest | Episode: "Still Life" (S 1:Ep 4) | |
Suspense | Man at Train Station | Episode: "The Far- Off House" (S 4:Ep 12) | |
Lux Video Theatre | Sanford | Episode: "Dames Are Poison" (S 2:Ep 14) | |
1952 | The Gulf Playhouse | Guest | Episode: "The Duel" (S 1:Ep 7) |
Short Short Dramas | Guest | Episode: "Meet Me at the Liberty" (S 1:Ep 14) | |
The Gulf Playhouse | Guest | Episode: "Our Two Hundred Children" (S 1:Ep 10) | |
Schlitz Playhouse | Guest | Episode: "P.G." (S 1:Ep 17) | |
Short Short Dramas | Guest | Episode: "Night School" (S 1:Ep 23) | |
Schlitz Playhouse | Guest | Episode: "Apple of His Eye" (S 1:Ep 22) | |
Tales of Tomorrow | Guest | Episode: "A Bird in Hand" (S 1:Ep 45) | |
Short Short Dramas | George Woodhull | Episode: "Equal Partners" (S 1:Ep 56) | |
Lights Out | Guest | Episode: "A Lucky Piece" (S 4:Ep 34) | |
Lux Video Theatre | Dan | Episode: "The Orchard" (S 2:Ep 51) | |
The Philco Television Playhouse | Guest | Episode: "The Gift" (S 5:Ep 6) | |
1953 | The Revlon Mirror Theater | Guest | Episode: "The Little Wife" (S 1:ep 1) |
Eye Witness | Guest | Episode: "The Righteous" (S 1:Ep 6) | |
Suspense | Mr. Matches | Episode: "Mr. Matches" (S 5:Ep 13) | |
The Doctor | Joey Martin | Episode: "Song for a Banker" (S 1:Ep 26) | |
Tales of Tomorrow | Irwin | Episode: "The Spider's Web" (S 2:Ep 38) | |
1962 | Wagon Train | Ben Morrell | Episode: "The Terry Morrell Story" (S5:Ep 30) |
1964 | Bonanza | Episode: "A Knight to Remember" | |
1966 | Lost In Space | Colonel Jeremiah Smith | Episode: "Curse of Cousin Smith" (S2:Ep 10) |
1966 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Dr.Sprauge | Episode: "Night Of Terror" (S3:Ep 04?) |
1967 | The Big Valley | General Alderson | Episode: "Court Martial" |
References
- ^ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHZR-DBJ
- ^ Awards Archive Archived 2008-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Real McCoys: Back to West Virginny" at IMDb
- ^ Veteran character actor dies after fall
- ^ "This Is the Army". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "The Lady Says No". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "Taxi". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
External links
- Henry Jones at Find a Grave
- Henry Jones at the Internet Broadway Database
- Henry Jones at IMDb
- Henry Jones at the TCM Movie Database