HENRY JONES BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Henry Jones was born on August 1st, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the birth name Henry Burk Jones, born to Helen and John Francis Xavier Jones. After graduating from Saint Joseph's Preparatory School, e earned a college degree from St. Joseph's College and then decided to pursue a career as an actor.
Jones began with working as a stage actor and debuted on Broadway in a production of, "Maurice Evans" (1938). Other stage credits he added to his credits included, "The Bad Seed", "My Sister Eileen", "The Time of Your Life", "They Knew What They Wanted" and "Sunrise at Campobello", for which he won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play and also won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Performance in a Drama.
He took a brief break from acting to serve in the United States Army during World War II and upon completing his military service, Jones returned to his acting career adding more stage credits.
He then broke into the film industry with some of his more well know appearances on such films as, "This is the Army" (1943) starring George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Alan Hale Sr., Rosemary DeCamp, Kate Smith, Victor Moore, George Tobias and Ronald Reagan, "Bad Seed" (1956) co-starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden, William Hopper, Paul Fix, Joan Croydon and Jesse White, "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1957) starring Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Lili Gentle and Mickey Hargitay, "3:10 to Yuma" (1957) starring Van Heflin, Glenn Ford, Felicia Farr, Robert Emhardt, Richard Jaeckel, Leora Dana and Ford Rainey, "Vertigo" (1958) starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Fred Graham, Raymond Bailey, Tom Helmore and Ellen Corby, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey, Ted Cassidy, Sam Elliott and Cloris Leachman, "Dirty Dingus Magee" (1970) starring Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, John Dehner, Lois Nettleton, Paul Fix, Michele Carey, Harry Carey Jr. and Jack Elam, "The Grifters" (1990) starring John Cusack, Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening and Pat Hingle and "Dick Tracy" (1990) starring alongside Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Charles Durning, Madonna Ciccone, William Forsythe, Glenne Headly, Paul Sorvino, Dick Van Dyke, James Caan, Dustin Hoffman, R.G. Armstrong, Henry Silva, Mandy Patinkin, Michael J. Pollard and Charlie Korsmo.
In addition to his film work he appeared on such television series as, "Appointment with Adventure", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "The Eleventh Hour", "Adam-12", "Lights Out", "Emergency!", "The Mod Squad", "Daniel Boone", "Gunsmoke", "Channing", "Father knows Best", "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show", "The Twilight Zone", "Climax!", "Burke's Law", "The Loretta Young Show" and "The Dukes of Hazzard" among many others. In total he added over 200 roles to his resume.
His final acting role was on the television series, "Picture Window" (1995). He then retired from acting and lived the remainder of his life in Santa Monica, California until he passed away at the age of eighty six on May 17th, 1999 after suffering from a fall.
Henry Jones had two children and was married twice throughout his lifetime. His first wife was Yvonne Bergere whom he weed in January 1942 but divorced that same year in October. He then wed Judy Briggs in 1948 and this marriage came to an end after having two children in 1961. He never re-married and remained working in the industry.
Filmography
1995 Picture Windows
1994 Breathing Lessons
1992 Mastergate
1992 Grass Roots
1991 Empty Nest
1990 Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
1990 Coach
1990 The Grifters
1990 Arachnophobia
1990 Dick Tracy
1990 Enid Is Sleeping
1989 Nowhere to Run
1988 Murder, She Wrote
1988 Mr. Belvedere
1987-1988 I Married Dora
1987 Mathnet
1987 Silver Spoons
1987 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1987 Magnum, P.I.
1986 Sidekicks
1982-1986 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1986 MacGyver
1986 Comedy Factory
1985-1986 Falcon Crest
1986 Balboa
1985 Cagney & Lacey
1985 Code Name: Foxfire
1983 Gun Shy
1982 Filthy Rich
1982 Deathtrap
1982 McClain's Law
1982 The Dukes of Hazzard
1982 Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982 The Love Boat
1981 CHiPs
1978-1981 Quincy M.E.
1981 California Gold Rush
1981 B.J. and the Bear
1980-1981 Flo
1980 Nine to Five
1978-1980 Fantasy Island
1980 The Littlest Hobo
1980 Here's Boomer
1979-1980 Mrs. Columbo
1979 Supertrain
1979 Turnabout
1979 Salvage 1
1978 Lucan
1978 Vega$
1978 Project U.F.O.
1978 Barney Miller
1975-1977 Phyllis
1977 Tail Gunner Joe
1975 We'll Get By
1975 Who Is the Black Dahlia?
1974-1975 The Six Million Dollar Man
1975 The Wide World of Mystery
1974 Roll, Freddy, Roll!
1974 Kolchak: The Night Stalke
1974 Petrocelli
1974 These Are the Days
1973-1974 The Girl with Something Extra
1973 The Outfit
1973 Hawkins
1973 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1973 Letters from Three Lovers
1973 Tom Sawyer
1973 McMillan & Wife
1973 The Partridge Family
1973 The Letters
1973 Hec Ramsey
1973 Circle of Fear
1973 The Doris Day Show
1973 The Paul Lynde Show
1972 Pete 'n' Tillie
1972 Adam-12
1972 Emergency!
1972 The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972 Napoleon and Samantha
1972 The Singles
1964-1972 Bonanza
1972 Rod Serling's Night Gallery
1967-1972 Gunsmoke
1968-1971 The Mod Squad
1971 Skin Game
1971 The Man and the City
1971 Alias Smith and Jones
1971 Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971 Hitched
1971 The Smith Family
1971 Love Hate Love
1971 Mary Tyler Moore
1970 Dirty Dingus Magee
1970 Rabbit, Run
1970 Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970 Nanny and the Professor
1970 The Virginian
1970 The Movie Murderer
1969-1970 The Name of the Game
1970 The Forty-Eight Hour Mile
1969 The Governor & J.J.
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 Rascal
1969 The Outsider
1969 Angel in My Pocket
1969 Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 Here Come the Brides
1967-1969 Daniel Boone
1968 Something for a Lonely Man
1968 The Guns of Will Sonnett
1968 Project X
1966-1968 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1968 Stay Away, Joe
1968 Tarzan
1968 The Second Hundred Years
1967 That Girl
1967 The Crucible
1964-1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1967 The Champagne Murders
1967 The Big Valley
1966 Hawk
1966 Lost in Space
1966 The Tammy Grimes Show
1966 Bewitched
1965 A Man Called Shenandoah
1965 Never Too Late
1965 Burke's Law
1965 Honey West
1965 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1965 Profiles in Courage
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963-1964 Channing
1963 The DuPont Show of the Week
1962-1963 Alcoa Premiere
1962 The Eleventh Hour
1962 The Defenders
1962 Wagon Train
1962 Route 66
1956-1962 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1961-1962 Thriller
1962 Outlaws
1962 Frontier Circus
1961 The Investigators
1961 The New Breed
1960-1961 Checkmate
1961 Follow the Sun
1961 Bus Stop
1961 The Real McCoys
1961 Angel Baby
1961 'Way Out
1960 The Best of the Post
1960 Adventures in Paradise
1960 The Loretta Young Show
1960 Twilight Zone
1960 Goodyear Theatre
1960 The Untouchables
1960 The Bramble Bush
1960 Cash McCall
1957-1959 Playhouse 90
1959 Startime
1958 Vertigo
1953-1958 Kraft Theatre
1958 Father Knows Best
1955-1957 Studio One in Hollywood
1957 3:10 to Yuma
1957 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957 The Alcoa Hour
1952-1957 Robert Montgomery Presents
1956 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre
1956 The Girl Can't Help It
1956 The Girl He Left Behind
1956 The Bad Seed
1956 Climax!
1956 Playwrights '56
1956 Appointment with Adventure
1955 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
1954 Center Stage
1954 You Are There
1951-1953 The Web
1953 The Revlon Mirror Theater
1953 Tales of Tomorrow
1953 Eye Witness
1953 The Doctor
1953 Taxi
1951-1953 Suspense
1953 Society Man
1952 Short Short Dramas
1952 The Gulf Playhouse
1951-1952 Lux Video Theatre
1952 Lights Out
1952 Schlitz Playhouse
1951 The Lady Says No
1951 Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950-1951 Danger
1951 Big Town
1951 The Prudential Family Playhouse
1950 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950 The Ford Theatre Hour
1950 Actor's Studio
1950 Cowboy Crazy
1949 Straw Hat Cinderella
1943 This Is the Army
