Henry Jones
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 1, 1912
- Died
- May 17, 1999 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Picture Windows: Lightning
Movie · as Assayer
Breathing Lessons
Movie · as Sam
Grass Roots
Movie · as Sen. Ben Carr
Mastergate
Movie · as Oral Proctor
Arachnophobia
Movie · as Dr. Sam Metcalf
The Grifters
Movie · as Sims
Dick Tracy
Movie · as Night Clerk
Enid Is Sleeping
Movie · as Old Man
Nowhere to Run
Movie · as Judge Culbert
Coach
TV · as Mr. Newbower · 1 ep
I Married Dora
TV · as Hughes Whitney Lennox · 13 eps
The Leftovers
Movie · as Thorndike
Sidekicks
TV · 1 ep
Code Name: Foxfire
Movie · as Phillips
Code Name: Foxfire
TV · as Phillips · 7 eps
MacGyver
TV · as Charles 'Papa Chuck' Banning · 1 ep
The Comedy Factory
TV · as Morton Waterman · 1 ep
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Morris Penroy · 1 ep
Gun Shy
TV · as Homer McCoy · 6 eps
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV · as Barney Dorsey · 1 ep
Deathtrap
Movie · as Porter Milgrim
The Magic Statue
Movie · as Cyril Carson
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
Movie
Cagney & Lacey
TV · 1 ep
Filthy Rich
TV · 1 ep
California Gold Rush
Movie · as Joe Gillis
Falcon Crest
TV · as B. Riley Wicker · 9 eps
Here's Boomer
TV · 1 ep
Nine to Five
Movie · as Mr. Hinkle
Magnum, P.I.
TV · as The Butler · 1 ep
B. J. and the Bear
TV · 1 ep
Mrs. Columbo
TV · as Josh Alden · 13 eps
Supertrain
TV · as James Malinson · 1 ep
Vega$
TV · 1 ep
Fantasy Island
TV · as Bank Teller · 1 ep
Tail Gunner Joe
Movie · as Armitage
CHiPs
TV · as Dutton · 1 ep
The Love Boat
TV · as Frank Jensen · 1 ep
Quincy, M.E.
TV · as Richard Hawley · 1 ep
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Movie · as Lee Jones
Please Call It Murder
Movie · as Dr. Vincent
Phyllis
TV · as Jonathan Dexter · 48 eps
Barney Miller
TV · as Father Clement · 1 ep
Roll, Freddy, Roll!
Movie · as Theodore Menlo
Run, Joe, Run
TV · as Feeny · 1 ep
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV · as Captain Julian Wells · 1 ep
These Are the Days
TV · 16 eps
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV · as Dr. Dolenz, Dr. Chester Dolenz · 1 ep
Petrocelli
TV · as Wheaton · 1 ep
The Outfit
Movie · as Doctor
Tom Sawyer
Movie · as Senhor Dobbins
The Letters
Movie · as Mailman
Hitched
Movie · as Barnstable
Hawkins
TV · as George Davis · 1 ep
The Girl with Something Extra
TV · as Owen Metcalf · 22 eps
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
TV · 1 ep
Pete 'n' Tillie
Movie · as Mr. Tucker
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Movie · as Codge Collier
Napoleon and Samantha
Movie · as Mr. Amos Gutteridge
The Paul Lynde Show
TV · 1 ep
Ghost Story
TV · as Truthers · 1 ep
Emergency!
TV · as Dr. Alexander Knott · 1 ep
Skin Game
Movie · as Sam Cutler
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie · as Ez
Love Hate Love
Movie · as Tom Blunden
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
Movie · as Judge
Alias Smith and Jones
TV · 1 ep
The Man and the City
TV · 1 ep
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV · as Dr. Metz · 1 ep
Dirty Dingus Magee
Movie · as Rev. Green
Rabbit, Run
Movie · as Mr. Angstrom
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Movie · as Hanson
The Movie Murderer
Movie · as Martin Moss
The 48-Hour Mile
Movie · as Decker
Night Gallery
TV · as Malcolm Hample · 1 ep
Nanny and the Professor
TV · as Mr. Abercrombie · 1 ep
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV · as Mr. Arnell · 1 ep
The Partridge Family
TV · as Mr. Phelps · 1 ep
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Movie · as Bike Salesman
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Movie · as Henry Jackson
Rascal
Movie · as Garth Shadwick
Angel in My Pocket
Movie · as Will Sinclair
Project X
Movie · as Dr. Crowther
Something for a Lonely Man
Movie · as R.J. Hoferkamp
Stay Away, Joe
Movie · as Hy Slager
The Mod Squad
TV · as Herbert Milne · 1 ep
Here Come the Brides
TV · 1 ep
The Outsider
TV · 1 ep
Adam-12
TV · as Harry Craig · 1 ep
The Name of the Game
TV · as Mr. McKim, George · 1 ep
The Champagne Murders
Movie · as Mr. Clark
The Crucible
Movie · as Reverend Parris
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV · as Preacher Soul · 1 ep
The Second Hundred Years
TV · as Langston Barnes · 1 ep
That Girl
TV · 1 ep
Tarzan
TV · 1 ep
The Tammy Grimes Show
TV · 1 ep
Never Too Late
Movie · as Dr. Kimbrough
Lost in Space
TV · as Jeremiah Smith · 1 ep
The Big Valley
TV · as General Alderson · 1 ep
Honey West
TV · as Reedy Comfort · 1 ep
Bewitched
TV · 1 ep
Daniel Boone
TV · as Landers, Jonas Morgan · 1 ep
Profiles in Courage
TV · as Hamilton Fish · 1 ep
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Vincent Lockridge, Dean Timothy Dwight · 1 ep
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
TV · as Dr. Sprague · 1 ep
The Best Years
Movie · as Dean Baker
Burke's Law
TV · as Harrison Quentin Filmore · 1 ep
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Prof. Raymond Shipley · 1 ep
Channing
TV · as Dean Fred Baker · 1 ep
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Alex Morrow · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Ned Cochran · 1 ep
Angel Baby
Movie · as Ben Hays
The New Breed
TV · as Davidson · 1 ep
The Investigators
TV · as The Gov · 1 ep
Cash McCall
Movie · as Gil Clark
The Bramble Bush
Movie · as Parker Welk
Route 66
TV · 1 ep
Outlaws
TV · 1 ep
Thriller
TV · as Erik Borg, Carl Somers · 1 ep
Checkmate
TV · as Ed Thurston, D.A. · 1 ep
The Twilight Zone
TV · as J. Hardy Hempstead · 1 ep
Adventures in Paradise
TV · as Professor Flanders · 1 ep
The Untouchables
TV · as Brooks Wells · 1 ep
Bonanza
TV · as King Arthur / Uncle Leo · 1 ep
Startime
TV · as Byrnes · 1 ep
Vertigo
Movie · as Coroner
3:10 to Yuma
Movie · as Alex Potter
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Movie · as Henry Rufus
The Mystery of Thirteen
Movie · as Walter Palmer
The Real McCoys
TV · as Jed McCoy · 2 eps
Wagon Train
TV · as Ben Morrell · 1 ep
The Bad Seed
Movie · as Leroy Jessup
The Girl Can't Help It
Movie · as Mousie
The Girl He Left Behind
Movie · as Hanson
Gunsmoke
TV · as Harvey Cagle, Papa Steiffer, J. Luther Gross · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Wally Long, Harry Parker, George Tiffany, John Treadwell, Miles Cheever · 1 ep
Playwrights '56
TV · 1 ep
Climax!
TV · as Dr. Barney O'Keefe · 1 ep
Father Knows Best
TV · as Mr Kermit · 1 ep
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Homer McCoy · 1 ep
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
TV · 1 ep
Taxi
Movie · as Thorndike (uncredited)
Mr. Matches
Movie · as Mr. Matches
Letter to Loretta
TV · as Henry Stokes · 1 ep
Revlon Mirror Theatre
TV · 1 ep
You Are There
TV · as William Savage · 1 ep
The Lady Says No
Movie · as Potsy
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Sam · 1 ep
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · 2 eps
Tales of Tomorrow
TV · 2 eps
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Sanford, Jim, Dan · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · 3 eps
The Web
TV · 1 ep
Danger
TV · 2 eps
Suspense
TV · as Man at Train Station, Mr. Matches · 1 ep
Lights Out
TV · 1 ep
Studio One
TV · as Sloane, Simon Hazlett, Mr. Weaver, St. Barnabas, Sam · 1 ep
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · as Professor Stark-Purvis · 1 ep
Kraft Television Theatre
TV · as Professor Bowdin · 2 eps
This Is the Army
Movie · as Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)