Henry Jones

Known for ActingBorn 1912-08-01Died 1999-05-17Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The 48-Hour Mile

Please Call It Murder

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Twilight Zone

The Girl with Something Extra

Grass Roots

Code Name: Foxfire

Vertigo

Emergency!

MacGyver

Hawkins

Bewitched

Night Gallery

The Untouchables

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Murder, She Wrote

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Something for a Lonely Man

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The New Breed

Kraft Television Theatre

Quincy, M.E.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

The Man and the City

Danger

Ghost Story

Profiles in Courage

Channing

Bonanza

Barney Miller

Magnum, P.I.

Hitched

The Six Million Dollar Man

Petrocelli

Honey West

Code Name: Foxfire

Lost in Space

3:10 to Yuma

California Gold Rush

Cagney & Lacey

Adam-12

Vega$

Here Come the Brides

Nine to Five