Emrys Jones (actor)

After Jones made his stage debut in Donald Wolfit's company in 1937, his film debut came in Powell and Pressburger's One of Our Aircraft Is Missing in 1942, and he began to develop a career in the British cinema of the 1940s. Due to his boyish looks he would often be cast as young innocents in films such as The Wicked Lady (1945), The Rake's Progress (1945), Nicholas Nickleby (1947), and Powell and Pressburger's The Small Back Room (1949).{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/emrys-jones-p36093|title=Emrys Jones - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}

When Jones was relegated to second features in the 1950s he concentrated on his stage career, maturing into an accomplished character actor in the process. The latter half of his career was mostly spent on television in such programmes as Softly, Softly, Out of the Unknown, Dixon of Dock Green, Doomwatch, Z-Cars, Special Branch, and as 'The Master of the Land of Fiction' in the Doctor Who serial The Mind Robber (1968).{{cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=8911|title=Emrys Jones|website=www.aveleyman.com}}{{cite web | url= https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2009-08-06/the-mind-robber/ | title=The Mind Robber ★★★★ | work=Radio Times | first=Mark | last=Braxton | access-date=30 December 2021}}

Jones was married to actresses Pauline Bentley and Anne Ridler. He died of a heart attack in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1972, where he was in a stage production, playing Winston Churchill.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&dq=emrys+jones+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA402|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111975|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/11/archives/emrys-jones.html|title=EMRYS JONES|website=The New York Times|publisher=}}

• 1966 Bat Out of Hell - Walter Bowen - (five episodes)
• 1968 Doctor Who: The Mind Robber - The Master - (five episodes)

• Macbeth (1942) directed by John Gielgud at the Piccadilly Theatre (as Malcolm){{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/t/macbeth/production/nn5|title=Production of Macbeth - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}
• Flare Path (1942) Original production at the Apollo Theatre, (as Flight Lieutenant Teddy Graham){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mreCBAAAQBAJ&dq=flare+path+1942+emrys+jones&pg=PA80|title=The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|first=J. P.|last=Wearing|date=22 August 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810893061|via=Google Books}}
• The Hasty Heart (1945) Original production at the Aldwych Theatre (as Lachlen){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mreCBAAAQBAJ&dq=the+hasty+heart+emrys+jones&pg=PA207|title=The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|first=J. P.|last=Wearing|date=22 August 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810893061|via=Google Books}}
• Dial M for Murder (1952) Original West End production at the Westminster Theatre (as Tony Wendice){{cite web|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/27th-june-1952/12/dial-m-for-murder-by-frederick-knott-westminster-w|title=Dial M. for Murder. By Frederick Knott. (Westminster.) WivEs should » 27 Jun 1952 » The Spectator Archive|publisher=}}
• Albertine by Moonlight (1956) at the Westminster Theatre (as Mac){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g2PBAAAQBAJ&dq=albertine+by+moonlight+emrys+jones&pg=PA431|title=The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|first=J. P.|last=Wearing|date=16 September 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810893085|via=Google Books}}

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