Henry Jones profile
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Henry Jones

1st August 1912 Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA Acting

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.

61 Movies 99 TV Shows 160 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Rascal 11th June 1969 as Garth Shadwick
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Taxi 21st January 1953 as Thorndike (uncredited)
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This Is the Army 14th August 1943 as Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)
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Coach 28th February 1989 as Mr. Newbower
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MacGyver 29th September 1985 as Charles 'Papa Chuck' Banning
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Gun Shy 15th March 1983 as Homer McCoy
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CHiPs 15th September 1977 as Dutton
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Phyllis 8th September 1975 as Jonathan Dexter
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Hawkins 13th March 1973 as George Davis
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Adam-12 21st September 1968 as Harry Craig
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Burke's Law 20th September 1963 as Harrison Quentin Filmore
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Channing 18th September 1963 as Dean Fred Baker
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Checkmate 17th September 1960 as Ed Thurston, D.A.
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Thriller 13th September 1960 as Carl Somers
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Bonanza 12th September 1959 as King Arthur / Uncle Leo
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Gunsmoke 10th September 1955 as J. Luther Gross
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Climax! 7th October 1954 as Dr. Barney O'Keefe