Henry Jones
Born: 1912-08-01 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1999-05-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1995
- Picture Windows: Lightning as Assayer
1994
- Breathing Lessons as Sam
1992
- Grass Roots as Sen. Ben Carr
- Mastergate as Oral Proctor
1990
- Dick Tracy as Night Clerk
- The Grifters as Sims
- Arachnophobia as Dr. Sam Metcalf
- Enid Is Sleeping as Old Man
1989
- Coach as Mr. Newbower
- Nowhere to Run as Judge Culbert
1987
- I Married Dora as Hughes Whitney Lennox
1986
- Sidekicks
- The Leftovers as Thorndike
1985
- MacGyver as Charles 'Papa Chuck' Banning
- The Comedy Factory as Morton Waterman
- Code Name: Foxfire as Phillips
- Code Name: Foxfire as Phillips
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Morris Penroy
1983
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Barney Dorsey
- Gun Shy as Homer McCoy
1982
- Cagney & Lacey
- Filthy Rich
- Deathtrap as Porter Milgrim
- The Magic Statue as Cyril Carson
- Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1981
- Falcon Crest as B. Riley Wicker
- Here's Boomer
- California Gold Rush as Joe Gillis
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as The Butler
- Nine to Five as Mr. Hinkle
1979
- B. J. and the Bear
- Supertrain as James Malinson
- Mrs. Columbo as Josh Alden
1978
- Fantasy Island as Bank Teller
- Vega$
1977
- The Love Boat as Frank Jensen
- CHiPs as Dutton
- Tail Gunner Joe as Armitage
1976
1975
- Barney Miller as Father Clement
- Phyllis as Jonathan Dexter
- Who Is the Black Dahlia? as Lee Jones
- Please Call It Murder as Dr. Vincent
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Dolenz
- Petrocelli as Wheaton
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Captain Julian Wells
- Run, Joe, Run as Feeny
- These Are the Days
- Roll, Freddy, Roll! as Theodore Menlo
1973
- Hawkins as George Davis
- The Girl with Something Extra as Owen Metcalf
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- Tom Sawyer as Senhor Dobbins
- The Outfit as Doctor
- The Letters as Mailman
- Hitched as Barnstable
1972
- Emergency! as Dr. Alexander Knott
- Ghost Story as Truthers
- The Paul Lynde Show
- Napoleon and Samantha as Mr. Amos Gutteridge
- Pete 'n' Tillie as Mr. Tucker
- The Daughters of Joshua Cabe as Codge Collier
1971
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Dr. Metz
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Ez
- Skin Game as Sam Cutler
- The Man and the City
- The Day They Hanged Kid Curry as Judge
- Love Hate Love as Tom Blunden
1970
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Mr. Arnell
- Night Gallery as Malcolm Hample
- The Partridge Family as Mr. Phelps
- Nanny and the Professor as Mr. Abercrombie
- Rabbit, Run as Mr. Angstrom
- The 48-Hour Mile as Decker
- The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County as Hanson
- The Movie Murderer as Martin Moss
- Dirty Dingus Magee as Rev. Green
1969
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Bike Salesman
- Support Your Local Sheriff! as Henry Jackson
- Angel in My Pocket as Will Sinclair
- Rascal as Garth Shadwick
1968
- Adam-12 as Harry Craig
- The Name of the Game as Mr. McKim
- The Mod Squad
- The Outsider
- Here Come the Brides
- Project X as Dr. Crowther
- Stay Away, Joe as Hy Slager
- Something for a Lonely Man as R.J. Hoferkamp
1967
- The Guns of Will Sonnett as Preacher Soul
- The Second Hundred Years as Langston Barnes
- The Champagne Murders as Mr. Clark
- The Crucible as Reverend Parris
1965
- Lost in Space as Jeremiah Smith
- The Big Valley as General Alderson
- Honey West as Reedy Comfort
- Never Too Late as Dr. Kimbrough
1964
- Bewitched
- Daniel Boone as Landers
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Dr. Sprague
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Vincent Lockridge
- Profiles in Courage as Hamilton Fish
1963
- Burke's Law as Harrison Quentin Filmore
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Prof. Raymond Shipley
- Channing as Dean Fred Baker
- The Best Years as Dean Baker
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Alex Morrow
- The Virginian as Ned Cochran
1961
- The New Breed as Davidson
- The Investigators as The Gov
- Angel Baby as Ben Hays
1960
- Thriller as Erik Borg
- Route 66
- Outlaws
- Checkmate as Ed Thurston, D.A.
- Cash McCall as Gil Clark
- The Bramble Bush as Parker Welk
1959
- Bonanza as King Arthur / Uncle Leo
- The Untouchables as Brooks Wells
- The Twilight Zone as J. Hardy Hempstead
- Adventures in Paradise as Professor Flanders
- Startime as Byrnes
1958
- Vertigo as Coroner
1957
- Wagon Train as Ben Morrell
- 3:10 to Yuma as Alex Potter
- The Real McCoys as Jed McCoy
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? as Henry Rufus
- The Mystery of Thirteen as Walter Palmer
1956
- The Bad Seed as Leroy Jessup
- The Girl Can't Help It as Mousie
- The Girl He Left Behind as Hanson
1955
- Gunsmoke as Harvey Cagle
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Wally Long
- Playwrights '56
1954
- Father Knows Best as Mr Kermit
- Climax! as Dr. Barney O'Keefe
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Homer McCoy
- Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
1953
- You Are There as William Savage
- Letter to Loretta as Henry Stokes
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- Mr. Matches as Mr. Matches
- Taxi as Thorndike (uncredited)
1952
- The Lady Says No as Potsy
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- Lux Video Theatre as Sanford
- Danger
- The Web
1949
- Lights Out
- Suspense as Man at Train Station
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Professor Stark-Purvis
- Studio One as Sloane
1943
- This Is the Army as Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)