Henry Jones
Acting
🎂 1912-08-01
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.
Cast credits(168)
1950
1980
Jeremiah Smith
1965
Dr. Metz
1971
Mr Kermit
1954
Professor Flanders
1959
1983
Dr. Dolenz
1974
Dr. Chester Dolenz
1974
Harrison Quentin Filmore
1963
Charles 'Papa Chuck' Banning
1985
King Arthur / Uncle Leo
1959
Alex Morrow
1962
Mr. McKim
1968
George
1968
1951
Morris Penroy
1984
J. Hardy Hempstead
1959
Man at Train Station
1949
Mr. Matches
1949
Sloane
1948
Simon Hazlett
1948
St. Barnabas
1948
Mr. Weaver
1948
Sam
1948
Erik Borg
1960
Carl Somers
1960
Davidson
1961
1960
1967
Landers
1964
Jonas Morgan
1964
Vincent Lockridge
1964
Father Clement
1975
Professor Stark-Purvis
1948
B. Riley Wicker
1981
1947
Professor Bowdin
1947
1979
1968
Herbert Milne
1968
General Alderson
1965
1978
Bank Teller
1978
Jed McCoy
1957
Mr. Newbower
1989
Frank Jensen
1977
Wheaton
1974
1960
Hamilton Fish
1964
Dr. Barney O'Keefe
1954
1964
Dr. Alexander Knott
1972
Dean Fred Baker
1963
1976
Richard Hawley
1976
1966
1966
Prof. Raymond Shipley
1963
Reedy Comfort
1965
1968
Harry Craig
1968
1980
Captain Julian Wells
1974
Henry Stokes
1953
Sam
1951
1986
Ned Cochran
1962
Morton Waterman
1985
Feeny
1974
Dutton
1977
Mr. Abercrombie
1970
1982
1968
1950
Brooks Wells
1959
1972
Josh Alden
1979
Wally Long
1955
George Tiffany
1955
Harry Parker
1955
John Treadwell
1955
Miles Cheever
1955
Homer McCoy
1954
Judge Jonathan Dexter
1975
George Davis
1973
Malcolm Hample
1970
1974
Ed Thurston, D.A.
1960
Harvey Cagle
1955
Papa Steiffer
1955
J. Luther Gross
1955
1949
Owen Metcalf
1973
1982
1973
Truthers
1972
1971
Sanford
1950
Dan
1950
Jim
1950
The Gov
1961
1971
1955
Coroner
1958
1987
1951
Bike Salesman
1969
Homer McCoy
1983
Night Clerk
1990
Leroy Jessup
1956
Alex Potter
1957
Mr. Hinkle
1980
Dr. Sam Metcalf
1990
Sims
1990
Henry Jackson
1969
Phillips
1985
Ez
1971
Porter Milgrim
1982
Rev. Green
1970
Doctor
1973
Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)
1943
Senhor Dobbins
1973
Henry Rufus
1957
Oral Proctor
1992
Potsy
1952
1966
Dr. Crowther
1968
Mr. Amos Gutteridge
1972
Thorndike
1986
Armitage
1977
Mousie
1956
Gil Clark
1960
Mr. Angstrom
1970
Sam Cutler
1971
Garth Shadwick
1969
Lee Jones
1975
Martin Moss
1970
R.J. Hoferkamp
1968
Thorndike (uncredited)
1953
Dr. Vincent
1975
Hy Slager
1968
Old Man
1990
Mr. Tucker
1972
Hanson
1956
Sam
1994
Assayer
1995
Ben Hays
1961
Reverend Parris
1967
Joe Gillis
1981
Tom Blunden
1971
Mr. Clark
1967
Parker Welk
1960
Sen. Ben Carr
1992
Barnstable
1971
Judge
1971
Mailman
1973
Will Sinclair
1969
Hanson
1970
Theodore Menlo
1974
Codge Collier
1972
Decker
1970
Phillips
1985
Judge Culbert
1989
Dr. Kimbrough
1965
1982
Cyril Carson
1982
Mr. Matches
1953