Mark Jones (actor)

{{Short description|British actor (1939–2010)}}

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| name = Mark Jones

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| birth_name = Gerard Roger Jones

| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|4|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wellington, Somerset, England, UK

| death_date = {{death date and age|2010|1|14|1939|4|22|df=yes}}

| death_place = Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK

| occupation = Actor

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Mark Jones (22 April 1939 – 14 January 2010) was a British actor, who appeared frequently in various films and television series.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5a34b4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714061615/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5a34b4|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2020|title=Mark Jones|website=BFI}}

Credits include: A Family at War, Z-Cars, Van der Valk, Doctor Who (in the serial The Seeds of Doom), The New Avengers, The Onedin Line, Target, Secret Army, Tales of the Unexpected, Buccaneer, Blott on the Landscape, Casualty, Call Me Mister and Dempsey and Makepeace.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=22495|title=Mark Jones|website=www.aveleyman.com}}

He also appeared in the films Tell Me Lies (1968), Connecting Rooms (1970), Under Milk Wood (1972), Layout for 5 Models (1972), Keep It Up, Jack (1973, title role), The Sexplorer (1975), Secrets of a Superstud (1976), The Medusa Touch (1978), Can I Come Too? (1979), Bear Island (1979), Don't Open till Christmas (1984), and the Star Wars saga film The Empire Strikes Back (1980).{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/mark-jones-p392417|title=Mark Jones | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}

On stage he worked with the RSC several times, including in Peter Brook's production of Marat/Sade at the Aldwych Theatre in 1964, and in its Broadway transfer the following year.{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/3fc/mark-jones|title=Mark Jones | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-persecution-and-assassination-of-marat-as-performed-by-the-inmates-of-the-asylum-of-charenton-under-the-direction-of-the-marquis-de-sade-3276#People|title=The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade – Broadway Play – Original | IBDB|website=www.ibdb.com}} He also appeared in the film version.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b756c3b62|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712155548/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b756c3b62|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2020|title=The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1966)|website=BFI}}

Did two years National Service at S.H.A.P.E. Paris 1959-61.