Henry Jones
Acting • Born 1912-08-01 – Died 1999-05-17
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
178 credits
Vertigo
Movie • 1958
Coroner
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Movie • 1969
Bike Salesman
Skin Game
Movie • 1971
Sam Cutler
Arachnophobia
Movie • 1990
Dr. Sam Metcalf
Picture Windows: Lightning
Movie • 1995
Assayer
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Movie • 1969
Henry Jackson
The Outfit
Movie • 1973
Doctor
Tail Gunner Joe
Movie • 1977
Armitage
3:10 to Yuma
Movie • 1957
Alex Potter
The Bad Seed
Movie • 1956
Leroy Jessup
Project X
Movie • 1968
Dr. Crowther
The Girl Can't Help It
Movie • 1956
Mousie
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Movie • 1957
Henry Rufus
Deathtrap
Movie • 1982
Porter Milgrim
The Grifters
Movie • 1990
Sims
The Magic Statue
Movie • 1982
Cyril Carson
Dirty Dingus Magee
Movie • 1970
Rev. Green
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie • 1971
Ez
Rascal
Movie • 1969
Garth Shadwick
The Champagne Murders
Movie • 1967
Mr. Clark
Angel in My Pocket
Movie • 1969
Will Sinclair
The Leftovers
Movie • 1986
Thorndike
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
Movie • 1982
Pete 'n' Tillie
Movie • 1972
Mr. Tucker
Angel Baby
Movie • 1961
Ben Hays
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Movie • 1972
Codge Collier
Rabbit, Run
Movie • 1970
Mr. Angstrom
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Movie • 1970
Hanson
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Movie • 1975
Lee Jones
This Is the Army
Movie • 1943
Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)
Never Too Late
Movie • 1965
Dr. Kimbrough
Love Hate Love
Movie • 1971
Tom Blunden
California Gold Rush
Movie • 1981
Joe Gillis
Please Call It Murder
Movie • 1975
Dr. Vincent
Taxi
Movie • 1953
Thorndike (uncredited)
Tom Sawyer
Movie • 1973
Senhor Dobbins
The Letters
Movie • 1973
Mailman
Grass Roots
Movie • 1992
Sen. Ben Carr
The Movie Murderer
Movie • 1970
Martin Moss
Cash McCall
Movie • 1960
Gil Clark
Mr. Matches
Movie • 1953
Mr. Matches
Code Name: Foxfire
Movie • 1985
Phillips
Nine to Five
Movie • 1980
Mr. Hinkle
Roll, Freddy, Roll!
Movie • 1974
Theodore Menlo
The Bramble Bush
Movie • 1960
Parker Welk
The Girl He Left Behind
Movie • 1956
Hanson
Something for a Lonely Man
Movie • 1968
R.J. Hoferkamp
Nowhere to Run
Movie • 1989
Judge Culbert
Napoleon and Samantha
Movie • 1972
Mr. Amos Gutteridge
Mastergate
Movie • 1992
Oral Proctor
Dick Tracy
Movie • 1990
Night Clerk
Enid Is Sleeping
Movie • 1990
Old Man
The Lady Says No
Movie • 1952
Potsy
Breathing Lessons
Movie • 1994
Sam
The Crucible
Movie • 1967
Reverend Parris
Stay Away, Joe
Movie • 1968
Hy Slager
Hitched
Movie • 1973
Barnstable
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
Movie • 1971
Judge
The 48-Hour Mile
Movie • 1970
Decker
The Best Years
Movie • 1963
Dean Baker
The Mystery of Thirteen
Movie • 1957
Walter Palmer
Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
B. Riley Wicker
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
The Butler
CHiPs
TV • 1977
Dutton
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Harrison Quentin Filmore
B. J. and the Bear
TV • 1979
Mrs. Columbo
TV • 1979
Josh Alden
Phyllis
TV • 1975
Jonathan Dexter
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Prof. Raymond Shipley
That Girl
TV • 1966
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Route 66
TV • 1960
Hawkins
TV • 1973
George Davis
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Lost in Space
TV • 1965
Jeremiah Smith
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Harvey Cagle
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
Studio One
TV • 1948
Sloane
Bewitched
TV • 1964
Sidekicks
TV • 1986
Run, Joe, Run
TV • 1974
Feeny
Filthy Rich
TV • 1982
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
J. Hardy Hempstead
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Sam
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV • 1974
Captain Julian Wells
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Wally Long
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Vega$
TV • 1978
The Girl with Something Extra
TV • 1973
Owen Metcalf
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Landers
Thriller
TV • 1960
Erik Borg
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Sanford
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Here's Boomer
TV • 1981
Climax!
TV • 1954
Dr. Barney O'Keefe
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
General Alderson
The Man and the City
TV • 1971
Here Come the Brides
TV • 1968
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Professor Flanders
Profiles in Courage
TV • 1964
Hamilton Fish
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
TV • 1973
The Paul Lynde Show
TV • 1972
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Professor Stark-Purvis
Tarzan
TV • 1966
These Are the Days
TV • 1974
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Davidson
Suspense
TV • 1949
Man at Train Station
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Honey West
TV • 1965
Reedy Comfort
Playwrights '56
TV • 1955
Tales of Tomorrow
TV • 1951
Channing
TV • 1963
Dean Fred Baker
Code Name: Foxfire
TV • 1985
Phillips
Lights Out
TV • 1949
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Henry Stokes
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
Truthers
The Tammy Grimes Show
TV • 1966
Gun Shy
TV • 1983
Homer McCoy
The Outsider
TV • 1968
The Web
TV • 1950
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Malcolm Hample
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Dr. Dolenz
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Papa Steiffer
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
J. Luther Gross
Father Knows Best
TV • 1954
Mr Kermit
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Harry Craig
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Dan
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Jim
Petrocelli
TV • 1974
Wheaton
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Dr. Chester Dolenz
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Jonas Morgan
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Ed Thurston, D.A.
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Mr. McKim
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
George
Thriller
TV • 1960
Carl Somers
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
George Tiffany
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Harry Parker
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
John Treadwell
Studio One
TV • 1948
Simon Hazlett
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Miles Cheever
Studio One
TV • 1948
St. Barnabas
Studio One
TV • 1948
Mr. Weaver
Studio One
TV • 1948
Sam
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Dr. Alexander Knott
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Dr. Metz
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Vincent Lockridge
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Brooks Wells
Suspense
TV • 1949
Mr. Matches
MacGyver
TV • 1985
Charles 'Papa Chuck' Banning
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Frank Jensen
Barney Miller
TV • 1975
Father Clement
Nanny and the Professor
TV • 1970
Mr. Abercrombie
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Morris Penroy
Coach
TV • 1989
Mr. Newbower
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Alex Morrow
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Professor Bowdin
The Comedy Factory
TV • 1985
Morton Waterman
Fantasy Island
TV • 1978
Bank Teller
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Herbert Milne
Bonanza
TV • 1959
King Arthur / Uncle Leo
The Real McCoys
TV • 1957
Jed McCoy
The Investigators
TV • 1961
The Gov
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Homer McCoy
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Richard Hawley
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Ned Cochran
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV • 1983
Barney Dorsey
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Ben Morrell
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Dean Timothy Dwight
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967
Preacher Soul
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
TV • 1954
The Second Hundred Years
TV • 1967
Langston Barnes
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
TV • 1964
Dr. Sprague
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV • 1970
Mr. Arnell
The Partridge Family
TV • 1970
Mr. Phelps
I Married Dora
TV • 1987
Hughes Whitney Lennox
Revlon Mirror Theatre
TV • 1953