Henry Jones
Age: 86 | From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Person Details
Birthday: 1912-08-01 21:18:14
Death: 1999-05-17 21:18:14
Aliases: Henry Burk Jones
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 31
TV Involvements: 46
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Lost in Space
(1965) Jeremiah Smith
The Twilight Zone
(1959) J. Hardy Hempstead
The Big Valley
(1965) General Alderson
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Dan
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Miles Cheever
Daniel Boone
(1964) Jonas Morgan
Gunsmoke
(1955) J. Luther Gross
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Alex MorrowActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Assayer | |
| 1994 | Sam | |
| 1992 | Oral Proctor | |
| Sen. Ben Carr | ||
| 1990 | Sims | |
| Doctor Sam Metcalf | ||
| Old Man | ||
| Night Clerk | ||
| 1989 | Judge Culbert | |
| 1987 | N/A | |
| 1986 | Thorndike | |
| N/A | ||
| 1985 | N/A | |
| Phillips | ||
| Phillips | ||
| 1983 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1982 | Cyril Carson | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Porter Milgrim | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| Joe Gillis | ||
| 1980 | Mr. Hinkle | |
| N/A | ||
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| 1979 | Josh Alden | |
| N/A | ||
| 1978 | N/A | |
| 1977 | Frank Jensen | |
| Dutton | ||
| Armitage | ||
| 1976 | N/A | |
| 1975 | Judge Jonathan Dexter | |
| Lee Jones | ||
| Father Clement | ||
| Dr. Vincent | ||
| 1974 | Theodore Menlo | |
| Captain Julian Wells | ||
| N/A | ||
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| 1973 | Doctor | |
| N/A | ||
| Owen Metcalf | ||
| Senhor Dobbins | ||
| George Davis | ||
| Mailman | ||
| 1972 | Mr. Tucker | |
| Truthers | ||
| N/A | ||
| Codge Collier | ||
| Mr. Amos Gutteridge | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1971 | Sam Cutler | |
| N/A | ||
| Ez | ||
| Tom Blunden | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | Malcolm Hample | |
| Rev. Green | ||
| Mr. Angstrom | ||
| Hanson | ||
| Martin Moss | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1969 | Garth Shadwick | |
| Will Sinclair | ||
| Henry Jackson | ||
| Bike Salesman | ||
| 1968 | R.J. Hoferkamp | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| George | ||
| The Reverend Mr. McKim | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Crowther | ||
| Hy Slager | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| Reverend Parris | ||
| Mr. Clark | ||
| 1966 | N/A | |
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| 1965 | Dr. Kimbrough | |
| Reedy Comfort | ||
| Jeremiah Smith | ||
| General Alderson | ||
| 1964 | Hamilton Fish | |
| Jonas Morgan | ||
| Landers | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1963 | Prof. Raymond Shipley | |
| Harrison Quentin Filmore | ||
| Dean Fred Baker | ||
| 1962 | Alex Morrow | |
| 1961 | Davidson | |
| Ben Hays | ||
| 1960 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Ed Thurston, D.A. | ||
| Erik Borg | ||
| Carl Somers | ||
| Parker Welk | ||
| Gil Clark | ||
| 1959 | Professor Flanders | |
| J. Hardy Hempstead | ||
| 1958 | Coroner | |
| 1957 | Alex Potter, town drunk | |
| Henry Rufus | ||
| 1956 | Mousie | |
| Hanson | ||
| Leroy Jessup | ||
| 1955 | N/A | |
| Wally Long | ||
| Harry Parker | ||
| George Tiffany | ||
| John Treadwell | ||
| Miles Cheever | ||
| J. Luther Gross | ||
| Papa Steiffer | ||
| Harvey Cagle | ||
| 1954 | Dr. Barney O'Keefe | |
| Mr Kermit | ||
| 1953 | Henry Stokes | |
| Thorndike (uncredited) | ||
| Mr. Matches | ||
| 1952 | Potsy | |
| 1951 | Sam | |
| N/A | ||
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| 1950 | Sanford | |
| Jim | ||
| Dan | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1949 | Man at Train Station | |
| Mr. Matches | ||
| 1948 | St. Barnabas | |
| Sloane | ||
| Mr. Weaver | ||
| Sam | ||
| Simon Hazlett | ||
| Professor Stark-Purvis | ||
| 1946 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
