
Henry Jones
0 FOLLOWERS • 65 CREDITS • AUG 1, 1912 - MAY 17, 1999 • 86
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.
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Gunsmoke

Murder, She Wrote

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Bonanza

The Love Boat

Studio One

Adam-12

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Wonderful World of Disney

Lux Video Theatre

Quincy, M.E.

The Twilight Zone

Magnum, P.I.

CHiPs

Suspense

The Philco Television Playhouse

Night Gallery

Climax!

Emergency!

Route 66

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Kraft Suspense Theatre

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Name of the Game

Ghost Story

The Six Million Dollar Man

Daniel Boone

Fantasy Island

Falcon Crest

Alias Smith and Jones

Cagney & Lacey

Nanny and the Professor

Tarzan

MacGyver

Kraft Television Theatre

Letter to Loretta

Robert Montgomery Presents

Checkmate

Profiles in Courage

Outlaws

Father Knows Best

Here's Boomer

The Outsider

Run, Joe, Run

Lost in Space

B. J. and the Bear

Filthy Rich

The Web

The Leftovers

Mastergate

Nine to Five

Arachnophobia

The Girl with Something Extra

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Gun Shy

Vertigo

Thriller

Code Name: Foxfire

Project X

Mrs. Columbo

Phyllis

Mr. Matches

Petrocelli

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