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Henry Jones

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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Actor

Lightning

1995

as Assayer

Breathing Lessons

1994

as Sam

Mastergate

1992

as Oral Proctor

Grass Roots

1992

as Sen. Ben Carr

The Grifters

1990

as Sims

Arachnophobia

1990

as Dr. Sam Metcalf

Enid Is Sleeping

1990

as Old Man

Dick Tracy

1990

as Night Clerk

Nowhere to Run

1989

as Judge Culbert

The Leftovers

1986

as Thorndike

Code Name: Foxfire

1985

as Phillips

The Magic Statue

1982

as Cyril Carson

Deathtrap

1982

as Porter Milgrim

Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang

1982

California Gold Rush

1981

as Joe Gillis

Nine to Five

1980

as Mr. Hinkle

Tail Gunner Joe

1977

as Armitage

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

1975

as Lee Jones

Please Call It Murder

1975

as Dr. Vincent

Roll, Freddy, Roll!

1974

as Theodore Menlo

The Outfit

1973

as Doctor

Tom Sawyer

1973

as Senhor Dobbins

The Letters

1973

as Mailman

Pete 'n' Tillie

1972

as Mr. Tucker

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe

1972

as Codge Collier

Napoleon and Samantha

1972

as Mr. Amos Gutteridge

Skin Game

1971

as Sam Cutler

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971

as Ez

Love Hate Love

1971

as Tom Blunden

Dirty Dingus Magee

1970

as Rev. Green

Rabbit, Run

1970

as Mr. Angstrom

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

1970

as Hanson

The Movie Murderer

1970

as Martin Moss

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969

as Bike Salesman

Rascal

1969

as Garth Shadwick

Angel in My Pocket

1969

as Will Sinclair

Support Your Local Sheriff!

1969

as Henry Jackson

Something for a Lonely Man

1968

as R.J. Hoferkamp

Project X

1968

as Dr. Crowther

Stay Away, Joe

1968

as Hy Slager

The Crucible

1967

as Reverend Parris

The Champagne Murders

1967

as Mr. Clark

Never Too Late

1965

as Dr. Kimbrough

Angel Baby

1961

as Ben Hays

The Bramble Bush

1960

as Parker Welk

Cash McCall

1960

as Gil Clark

Vertigo

1958

as Coroner

3:10 to Yuma

1957

as Alex Potter

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

1957

as Henry Rufus

The Girl Can't Help It

1956

as Mousie

The Girl He Left Behind

1956

as Hanson

The Bad Seed

1956

as Leroy Jessup

Taxi

1953

as Thorndike (uncredited)

Mr. Matches

1953

as Mr. Matches

The Lady Says No

1952

as Potsy

This Is the Army

1943

as Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)