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Henry Jones

Profession
Acting
Born
August 1, 1912 · Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Died
May 17, 1999

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

Vertigo poster
Vertigo
Film · 1958 · ★ 8.1
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid poster
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Film · 1969 · ★ 7.6
Arachnophobia poster
Arachnophobia
Film · 1990 · ★ 6.5
Dick Tracy poster
Dick Tracy
Film · 1990 · ★ 6.2
The Twilight Zone poster
The Twilight Zone
Series · 1959 · ★ 8.5
MacGyver poster
MacGyver
Series · 1985 · ★ 7.7
Bewitched poster
Bewitched
Series · 1964 · ★ 7.8
Nine to Five poster
Nine to Five
Film · 1980 · ★ 7.0
Bonanza poster
Bonanza
Series · 1959 · ★ 7.5
The Grifters poster
The Grifters
Film · 1990 · ★ 6.5
Murder, She Wrote poster
Murder, She Wrote
Series · 1984 · ★ 7.5
Magnum, P.I. poster
Magnum, P.I.
Series · 1980 · ★ 7.3

Filmography