Henry Jones
Acting
- Born:
- 1912-08-01
- Died:
- 1999-05-17
- Place of birth:
- Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Henry Burk Jones (August 1, 1912 – May 17, 1999) was an American actor of stage, film and television. Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Helen (née Burk) and John Francis Xavier Jones. He was the grandson of Pennsylvania Representative Henry Burk. He attended the Jesuit-run 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 theatre 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. Jones appeared in more than 180 movies 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, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dirty Dingus Magee, Support Your Local Gunfighter, and Arachnophobia. On television, Jones appeared in Appointment with Adventure, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Eleventh Hour, Channing, Phyllis, Night Gallery, Emergency!, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. He played Dr. Smith's cousin in a 1966 episode of Lost In Space, "Curse Of Cousin Smith," great acting by Henry, and R.J. Hoferkamp in the 1968 made-for-television western movie Something for a Lonely Man. Jones died in Los Angeles, California, at age 86, from complications from injuries suffered in a fall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Jones (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Picture Windows: Lightning
Breathing Lessons
Mastergate
Grass Roots
The Grifters
Arachnophobia
Dick Tracy
Enid Is Sleeping
Nowhere to Run
Coach
I Married Dora
The Leftovers
Sidekicks
MacGyver
The Comedy Factory
Code Name: Foxfire
Code Name: Foxfire
Murder, She Wrote
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Gun Shy
The Magic Statue
Filthy Rich
Cagney & Lacey
Deathtrap
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
Falcon Crest
Here's Boomer
California Gold Rush
Nine to Five
Magnum, P.I.
Mrs. Columbo
B. J. and the Bear
Supertrain
Vega$
Fantasy Island
The Love Boat
CHiPs
Tail Gunner Joe
Quincy, M.E.
Phyllis
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Barney Miller
Please Call It Murder
Roll, Freddy, Roll!
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Petrocelli
Run, Joe, Run
These Are the Days
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Outfit
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Girl with Something Extra
Hitched
Tom Sawyer
Hawkins
The Letters
Pete 'n' Tillie
Ghost Story
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
The Paul Lynde Show
Napoleon and Samantha
Emergency!
Skin Game
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
The Man and the City
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Love Hate Love
Alias Smith and Jones
Night Gallery
Dirty Dingus Magee
The 48-Hour Mile
Rabbit, Run
The Partridge Family
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
The Movie Murderer
Nanny and the Professor
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Rascal
Angel in My Pocket
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Something for a Lonely Man
Here Come the Brides
The Mod Squad
Adam-12
The Name of the Game
The Outsider
Project X
Stay Away, Joe
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Second Hundred Years
The Crucible
The Champagne Murders
That Girl
Tarzan
The Tammy Grimes Show
Never Too Late
Honey West
Lost in Space
The Big Valley
Profiles in Courage
Daniel Boone
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Bewitched
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Burke's Law
Channing
The Best Years
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
The Investigators
The New Breed
Angel Baby
Route 66
Outlaws
Checkmate
Thriller
The Bramble Bush
Cash McCall
The Untouchables
Startime
Adventures in Paradise
The Twilight Zone
Bonanza
Vertigo
The Mystery of Thirteen
The Real McCoys
Wagon Train
3:10 to Yuma
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
The Girl Can't Help It
The Girl He Left Behind
The Bad Seed
Playwrights '56
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Gunsmoke
The Wonderful World of Disney
Climax!
Father Knows Best
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
Letter to Loretta
Revlon Mirror Theatre
You Are There
Taxi
Mr. Matches
The Lady Says No
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Tales of Tomorrow
Lux Video Theatre
Danger
The Web
Robert Montgomery Presents
Lights Out
Suspense
Studio One
The Philco Television Playhouse
Kraft Television Theatre
This Is the Army