Henry Jones (actor)
{{Short description|American actor (1912–1999)}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2021}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Henry Jones
| image = Henry Jones (1952) in, The Lady Says No.jpg
| caption = Jones in The Lady Says No (1952)
| birth_name = Henry Burk Jones
| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|8|1}}
| birth_place = New Jersey, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1999|5|17|1912|8|1}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| spouse = Yvonne Bergere (1942; her death)
Judy Briggs (1946–61; divorce; 2 children)
| years_active = 1943–1996
| relatives = Henry Burk (grandfather)
}}
Henry Burk Jones (August 1, 1912 – May 17, 1999) was an American actor of stage, film, and television.
Early years
Jones was born in New Jersey,{{cite web |title=Henry B Jones – United States Census, 1930 |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHZR-DBJ |website=familysearch.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305004745/https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHZR-DBJ |archive-date=March 5, 2016}} and was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Helen (née Burk) and John Francis Xavier Jones. He was the grandson of Pennsylvania Representative Henry Burk, a German immigrant. Jones attended the Jesuit Saint Joseph's Preparatory School.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
Career
Early in his career, he performed with the Hedgerow Theatre near Philadelphia. His first Broadway appearance was in Maurice Evans's 1938 Hamlet. During World War II, he served in the Army and was cast in Irving Berlin's This is the Army.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
Jones is remembered for his role as handyman Leroy Jessup in the movie The Bad Seed (1956), a role he originated on Broadway.[https://www.playbill.com/article/tony-winner-henry-jones-tv-movie-and-stage-character-actor-dead-at-86-com-82053 "Tony Winner Henry Jones, TV, Movie and Stage Character Actor, Dead at 86", Playbill, May 20, 1999] Other theater credits included My Sister Eileen, 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.[http://www.outercritics.org/AwardArchives.aspx?_y=1957-1958 Awards Archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505211852/http://www.outercritics.org/AwardArchives.aspx?_y=1957-1958 |date=May 5, 2008 }} His last Broadway role was in Advise and Consent in 1960–1961.{{cite web |title=Advise and Consent – Broadway Play – Original |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/advise-and-consent-2272 |website=www.ibdb.com}}
Jones appeared in more than 180 films and television shows. His screen credits included The Girl Can't Help It with Jayne Mansfield, 3:10 to Yuma with Van Heflin, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? with Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with James Stewart, Cash McCall with James Garner, The Bramble Bush with Richard Burton, Rascal with Bill Mumy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Dirty Dingus Magee with Frank Sinatra, Support Your Local Sheriff with James Garner and Walter Brennan, Support Your Local Gunfighter with James Garner, 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin, and Arachnophobia with Jeff Daniels.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
On television, Jones' best-remembered role was as the title character's father-in-law in the 1970s sitcom Phyllis. Jones portrayed Jed McCoy on a 1961 episode of the sitcom The Real McCoys. He had a regular role on the drama Channing, with Jason Evers.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
Jones also appeared on Appointment with Adventure, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Investigators, The Eleventh Hour, Bewitched, Night Gallery, Emergency!, The Mod Squad, Daniel Boone with Fess Parker, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Thriller, Adam-12, The Doris Day Show, Father Knows Best, The Dukes of Hazzard, Flo, Magnum, P.I. with Tom Selleck, The Untouchables with Robert Stack, Hawkins with James Stewart, Kolchak: The Night Stalker with Darren McGavin, MacGyver, Mr. Belvedere, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show with Burns and Allen,The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Falcon Crest.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
He played Dr. Smith's cousin in a 1966 episode of Lost in Space, "Curse of Cousin Smith", and with R.J. Hoferkamp in the 1968 made-for-television movie Something for a Lonely Man. In 1967, he guest-starred as mysterious time travelling villain Mr. Pem in the episode "A Time to Die" of the Sci-Fi TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Jones returned as Pem in the 110th and last episode of the series, "No Way Back". Starting in 1974, he guest-starred three times on The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Jeffrey/Chester Dolenz. This character was a brilliant scientist who built lifelike robots, but although every plot was foiled, he still managed to escape to fight another day. In 1978, he appeared in the Barney Miller episode "The Prisoner".{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
In the mid-1980s, Jones appeared at local dining theatre productions, including Winnipeg's Stage West.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
Personal life and death
Jones was a Republican and supported the campaign of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election.Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 34, Ideal Publishers
Jones died in UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at age 86 from complications from injuries suffered in a fall at his home in Santa Monica, California.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hHpaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qx4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5936,1880991&dq=henry+jones+dies+fall&hl=en Veteran character actor dies after fall]
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Roles ! Notes |
|---|
| 1943
| Mr. Brown/World War One Bugle Audition Observer | {{Plain list | Musical film produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner and directed by Michael Curtiz,{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/92968/this-is-the-army|title=This Is the Army|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=April 1, 2016}} uncredited }} |
| 1949
| Strawhat Cinderella | Stage Director | Short film directed and written by Justin Herman, uncredited |
| 1950
| Cowboy Crazy | Papa in His Study | Short film directed by and written by Justin Herman |
| 1951
| Potsy | Comedy film directed by Frank Ross{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/80695/the-lady-says-no|title=The Lady Says No|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=April 1, 2016}} |
| rowspan="2" | 1953
| Society Man | Narrator | Short film directed and produced by Justin Herman |
| Taxi
| Thorndike | Drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff,{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/92424/taxi|title=Taxi|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=April 1, 2016}} uncredited |
| rowspan="3" | 1956
| Leroy Jessup | Thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy |
| The Girl He Left Behind
| Hanson | |
| The Girl Can't Help It
| Mousie | |
| rowspan="2" | 1957
| Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Henry Rufus | Satirical comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin |
| 3:10 To Yuma
| Alex Potter | Western film directed by Delmer Daves |
| 1958
| Vertigo | Coroner | Drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock |
| rowspan="2" | 1960
| Gilmore Clark | Romantic drama film directed by Joseph Pevney |
| The Bramble Bush
| Parker Welk | |
| 1961
| Ben Hays | |
| 1965
| Dr. James Kimbrough | Comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin |
| 1967
| Mr. Clarke | |
| rowspan="2" | 1968
| Hy Slager | Western-comedy film directed by Peter Tewksbury |
| Project X
| Dr. Crowther | |
| rowspan="4" | 1969
| Henry Jackson | |
| Angel in My Pocket
| Mayor Will Sinclair | Comedy film feature directed by Alan Rafkin |
| Rascal
| Garth Shadwick | |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
| Bike Salesman | Western film directed by George Roy Hill |
| rowspan="3" | 1970
| The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Hanson | |
| Rabbit, Run
| Mr. Angstrom | |
| Dirty Dingus Magee
| Rev. Green | |
| rowspan="2" | 1971
| Support Your Local Gunfighter | Ez | Comedy-western film directed by Burt Kennedy |
| Skin Game
| Sam | |
| rowspan="2" | 1972
| Mr. Gutteridge | |
| Pete 'n' Tillie
| Mr. Tucker | |
| rowspan="2" | 1973
| Mr. Dobbins | Musical film directed by Don Taylor |
| The Outfit
| Doctor | |
| 1980
| Hinkle | Comedy film directed by Colin Higgins |
| 1982
| Porter Milgrim | Drama film directed by Sidney Lumet |
| 1983
| Balboa | Jeffry Duncan | |
| 1989
| Judge Culbert | |
| rowspan="4" | 1990
| Old Man | |
| Dick Tracy
| Night Clerk | Action comic film directed by Warren Beatty |
| Arachnophobia
| Dr. Sam Metcalf | Thriller film directed by Frank Marshall |
| The Grifters
| Mr. Simms | Neo-noir film directed by Stephen Frears |
| 1994
| Breathing Lessons | Sam | TV movie |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable"
!year !title !role !notes |
| 1949
| Guest | Episode: "A Room Full of Water" (S 1:Ep 12) |
| rowspan="6" | 1950
| Guest | Episode: "The Dusty Godmother: (S 2:Ep 27) |
| The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
| Charles Jones | Episode: "The Kleebob Card Game" (S 1:Ep 1) |
| Danger
| Guest | Episode: "Another Man's Poison" (s 1:Ep 11) |
| The Ford Theatre Hour
| Guest | Episode: "Father Malachy's Miracle" (S 2:Ep 16) |
| Actors Studio
| Guest | Episode: "The Timid Guy" (S 2:Ep 18) |
| Danger
| Guest | Episode: "Surprise for the Boys" (S 1:Ep 14) |
| rowspan="14" | 1951
| Danger | Guest | Episode: "Footfalls" (S 1:Ep 16) |
| Armstrong Circle Theatre
| Guest | Episode: "The Big Rainbow" (S 2:Ep 47) |
| The Web
| Himself | Episode:"A Switch in Time" (S 1:Ep 47) |
| Prudential Family Playhouse
| Guest | Epispode: "Ruggles of Red Gap" (S 1:Ep 11) |
| Big Town
| Guest | Episode: "The Return" (S 1:Ep 28) |
| Danger
| Guest | Episode: "Death Gambles" (S 1:Ep 45) |
| The Philco Television Playhouse
| Guest | Episode: "Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands" (S 3:Ep 48) |
| The Web
| Himself | Episode: "The Dishonorable Thief" (S 1:Ep 60) |
| Big Town
| Guest | Episode: "Neighborhood Story" (S 1:Ep 42) |
| The Web
| Himself | Episode: "All the Way to the Moon" (S 2:Ep 2) |
| Armstrong Circle Theatre
| Guest | Episode: "Marionettes" (S 3:Ep 13) |
| Schlitz Playhouse
| Guest | Episode: "Still Life" (S 1:Ep 4) |
| Suspense
| Man at Train Station | Episode: "The Far-Off House" (S 4:Ep 12) |
| Lux Video Theatre
| Sanford | Episode: "Dames Are Poison" (S 2:Ep 14) |
| rowspan="11" | 1952
| Guest | Episode: "The Duel" (S 1:Ep 7) |
| Short Short Dramas
| Guest | Episode: "Meet Me at the Liberty" (S 1:Ep 14) |
| The Gulf Playhouse
| Guest | Episode: "Our Two Hundred Children" (S 1:Ep 10) |
| Schlitz Playhouse
| Guest | Episode: "P.G." (S 1:Ep 17) |
| Short Short Dramas
| Guest | Episode: "Night School" (S 1:Ep 23) |
| Schlitz Playhouse
| Guest | Episode: "Apple of His Eye" (S 1:Ep 22) |
| Tales of Tomorrow
| Guest | Episode: "A Bird in Hand" (S 1:Ep 45) |
| Short Short Dramas
| George Woodhull | Episode: "Equal Partners" (S 1:Ep 56) |
| Lights Out
| Guest | Episode: "A Lucky Piece" (S 4:Ep 34) |
| Lux Video Theatre
| Dan | Episode: "The Orchard" (S 2:Ep 51) |
| The Philco Television Playhouse
| Guest | Episode: "The Gift" (S 5:Ep 6) |
| rowspan="5" | 1953
| Guest | Episode: "The Little Wife" (S 1:ep 1) |
| Eye Witness
| Guest | Episode: "The Righteous" (S 1:Ep 6) |
| Suspense
| Mr. Matches | Episode: "Mr. Matches" (S 5:Ep 13) |
| The Doctor
| Joey Martin | Episode: "Song for a Banker" (S 1:Ep 26) |
| Tales of Tomorrow
| Irwin | Episode: "The Spider's Web" (S 2:Ep 38) |
| 1954
| Captain Kidd | Episode: "The Hanging of Captain Kidd (May 23, 1701)" (S 2:Ep 25) |
| 1956
| Wally Long | Season 2 Episode 3: "De Mortuis" |
| 1957
| Harry Parker | Season 2 Episode 16: "Nightmare in 4-D" |
| 1957
| George Tiffany | Season 2 Episode 35: "The West Warlock Time Capsule" |
| 1958
| Mr. Kermit | Episode: "Margaret's Other Family" (S4:Ep19) |
| 1959
| John Treadwell | Season 5 Episode 8: "The Blessington Method" |
| 1959
| J. Hardy Hempstead | Episode: "Mr. Bevis" (S1:Ep 33) |
| 1960
| Brooks Wells | Episode: "Portrait of a Thief" (S1:Ep 25) |
| rowspan="2" | 1961
| Thriller | Erik Borg | Episode: "The Weird Tailor" (S2:Ep 4) |
| The Investigators
| Gov | Episode: "The Dead End Man" (S 1:Ep 13) |
| 1962
| Miles Cheever | Season 7 Episode 23: "Profit-Sharing Plan" |
| rowspan="2" | 1962
| Route 66 | Asa Turnbull | Episode: "Two on the House" (S2:Ep 27) |
| Wagon Train
| Ben Morrell | Episode: "The Terry Morrell Story" (S5:Ep 30) |
| 1964
| Bonanza | King Arthur / Uncle Leo | Episode: "A Knight to Remember" (S6:Ep 13) |
| rowspan="1"|1965
| Alex Marrow | Season 3 Episode 25: "The World's Oldest Motive" |
| rowspan="3"|1966
| Colonel Jeremiah Smith | Episode: "Curse of Cousin Smith" (S2:Ep 10) |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
| Dr. Sprauge | Episode: "Night of Terror" (S3:Ep 04) |
| Bewitched
| Brian O'Brian | Episode: "The Leprechaun" (S2:Ep 27) |
| rowspan="4" |1967
| The Big Valley | General Alderson | Episode: "Court Martial" |
| Gunsmoke
| Harvey Cagle | Episode: "Stranger in Town" |
| Daniel Boone
| Landers | Episode: “The Spanish Horse” |
| That Girl
| T.L. Harrison | Season 2 Episode 3: "Black, White and Read All Over" |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
|Mr. Pem |Episode: “A Time To Die” (S4:Ep 11) Episode: “No Way Back” (S4:Ep 26) |
| 1968
| Herbert Milne | Episode: "My What A Pretty Bus" (S1:Ep 3) |
| 1969
| The Reverend Mr. McKim | Episode: "Love-In at Ground Zero" (S1:Ep 19) |
| rowspan="4"|1970
| Gunsmoke | Papa Steiffer | "The Badge" (S15:Ep19) |
| The Name of the Game
| George | Episode: "Island of Gold and Precious Stones" (S2:Ep 16) |
| Nanny and the Professor
| Mr. Abercrombie | Episode: "I Think That I Shall Never See a Tree" (S1:EP 10) |
| The Virginian
| Ned Cochran | Episode: "No War for the Warrior" (S8:Ep 20) |
| 1971
| The Mod Squad | Paulie | Episode: "And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them" (S4:Ep 11) |
| 1972
| Dr. Alexander Knott | Episode: "Show Biz" (S2:Ep 3) |
| 1972
| Adam-12 | Harry Craig | Episode: "Harry Nobody" (S5:Ep 7) |
| 1972
| Bonanza | Sheriff | Episode: "The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother" (S13: Ep 23) |
| rowspan="2"|1973
| Sam Johnson | Episode: "The Last Huzzah" (S5:Ep 16) |
| Hawkins
| George Davis | Episode: "Die, Darling, Die" (S1:Ep 2) |
| 1973
|The Partridge Family |Mr. Phelps |Episode: “The Partridge Connection” (S3: Ep 22) |
| rowspan="3"|1974
| Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | Dr. Metz | Episode: "The Desertion of Keith Ryder" (S3: Ep 22) |
| Petrocelli
| Wheaton | Episode: "A Life for a Life" (S1: Ep 5) |
| The Six Million Dollar Man
| Dr. Chester Dolenz | Episode: "Day Of The Robot" (S1: Ep 4) Episode: "Run, Steve, Run" (S1: Ep 13) and Episode: "Return Of The Robot Maker" (S2: Ep 15) |
| 1975-1977
|Judge Jonathan Dexter |
| 1979
| Josh Alden | Episode: "Word Games" (S1: Ep 01) |
| 1981
|Dutton |Episode “Diamond in the Rough” (S5:EP 8) |
| 1982
|Frank Jensen |Episode "Good Neighbors/Captain's Portrait/Familiar Faces" (S5:Ep 14) |
| 1985-1986
|B. Riley Wicker |
| 1986
|Charles 'Papa Chuck' Banning |Episode "The Eraser" (S2:Ep 2) |
| 1987
|The Butler |Episode "Murder by Night" (S7:Ep 13) |
| 1988
|Morris Penroy |Episode “Mr. Penroy’s Vacation” (S5:Ep 3) |
| 1990
|Mr. Newbower |Episode “Cabin Fever” (S3:Ep 9) |
References
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External links
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