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Henry Jones

Henry Jones

Actor · 1912 – 1999 · Atlantic 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.

Movies24

  • Movie8.1

    Vertigo

    1958 · 6.5K votes

  • Movie7.6
  • Movie7.0

    Nine to Five

    1980 · 595 votes

  • Movie7.3

    3:10 to Yuma

    1957 · 437 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Dick Tracy

    1990 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie6.5

    Arachnophobia

    1990 · 1.6K votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Bad Seed

    1956 · 276 votes

  • Movie6.9
  • Movie6.5

    The Grifters

    1990 · 497 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Deathtrap

    1982 · 323 votes

  • Movie6.6
  • Movie6.3

    The Girl Can't Help It

    1956 · 82 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie6.7

    The Outfit

    1973 · 103 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Tom Sawyer

    1973 · 64 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Le Scandale

    The Champagne Murders

    1967 · 25 votes

  • Movie5.7

    This Is the Army

    1943 · 25 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Breathing Lessons

    1994 · 7 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie5.5

    Stay Away, Joe

    1968 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Skin Game

    1971 · 36 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Dirty Dingus Magee

    1970 · 15 votes

  • Movie4.5
  • Movie6.2

    Angel in My Pocket

    1969 · 5 votes

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  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV7.7

    MacGyver

    1985 · 963 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV7.3

    Magnum, P.I.

    1980 · 460 votes

  • TV7.7
  • TV7.9
  • TV5.5

    Falcon Crest

    1981 · 64 votes

  • TV7.1

    Adam-12

    1968 · 48 votes

  • TV7.5

    Quincy, M.E.

    1976 · 123 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.8

    Bewitched

    1964 · 764 votes

  • TV6.7

    Coach

    1989 · 66 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV7.0

    Daniel Boone

    1964 · 34 votes

  • TV8.0

    Emergency!

    1972 · 53 votes

  • TV7.3

    Barney Miller

    1975 · 62 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Partridge Family

    1970 · 35 votes