Henry Jones
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Tony Award
Tony Awards 1 won
- 1958 Best Featured Actor in a Play Won
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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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The Love Boat
Bonanza
Murder, She Wrote
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Coach
MacGyver
Magnum, P.I.
Wagon Train
Falcon Crest
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Adam-12
The Twilight Zone
Emergency!
Father Knows Best
The Virginian
Fantasy Island
The Six Million Dollar Man
Quincy, M.E.
Barney Miller
The Philco Television Playhouse
Climax!
The Untouchables
Daniel Boone
The Big Valley
Burke's Law
Thriller
Lost in Space
Gunsmoke
Night Gallery
Studio One
The Partridge Family
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
The Name of the Game
The Real McCoys
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Adventures in Paradise
Suspense
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Kraft Television Theatre
Vertigo
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Petrocelli
The Mod Squad
Honey West
Checkmate
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Ghost Story
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Bewitched
Robert Montgomery Presents
Cagney & Lacey
Route 66
That Girl
Tarzan
Vega$
Tales of Tomorrow
Lights Out
Alias Smith and Jones
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