
Henry Jones
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Vertigo
1958

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969

Skin Game
1971

Arachnophobia
1990

Picture Windows: Lightning
1995

Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969

The Outfit
1973

Tail Gunner Joe
1977

3:10 to Yuma
1957

The Bad Seed
1956

Project X
1968

The Girl Can't Help It
1956

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957

Deathtrap
1982

The Grifters
1990

The Magic Statue
1982

Dirty Dingus Magee
1970

Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971

Rascal
1969

The Champagne Murders
1967

Angel in My Pocket
1969

The Leftovers
1986

Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982

Pete 'n' Tillie
1972

Angel Baby
1961

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972

Rabbit, Run
1970

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970

Who Is the Black Dahlia?
1975

This Is the Army
1943

Never Too Late
1965

Love Hate Love
1971

California Gold Rush
1981

Please Call It Murder
1975

Taxi
1953

Tom Sawyer
1973

The Letters
1973

Grass Roots
1992

The Movie Murderer
1970

Cash McCall
1960

Mr. Matches
1953

Code Name: Foxfire
1985

Nine to Five
1980

Roll, Freddy, Roll!
1974

The Bramble Bush
1960

The Girl He Left Behind
1956

Something for a Lonely Man
1968

Nowhere to Run
1989

Napoleon and Samantha
1972

Mastergate
1992

Dick Tracy
1990

Enid Is Sleeping
1990

The Lady Says No
1952

Breathing Lessons
1994

The Crucible
1967

Stay Away, Joe
1968

Hitched
1973

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
1971

The 48-Hour Mile
1970

The Best Years
1963

The Mystery of Thirteen
1957

Falcon Crest
1981

Magnum, P.I.
1980

CHiPs
1977

Burke's Law
1963

B. J. and the Bear
1979

Mrs. Columbo
1979

Phyllis
1975

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

That Girl
1966

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Route 66
1960

Hawkins
1973

Alias Smith and Jones
1971

The Mod Squad
1968

Lost in Space
1965

Gunsmoke
1955

Cagney & Lacey
1982

Studio One
1948

Bewitched
1964

Sidekicks
1986

Run, Joe, Run
1974

Filthy Rich
1982

The Twilight Zone
1959

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Outlaws
1960

Vega$
1978

The Girl with Something Extra
1973

Daniel Boone
1964

Thriller
1960

Lux Video Theatre
1950

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Here's Boomer
1981

Climax!
1954

The Big Valley
1965

The Man and the City
1971

Here Come the Brides
1968

Adventures in Paradise
1959

Profiles in Courage
1964

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1973

The Paul Lynde Show
1972

Tarzan
1966

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

These Are the Days
1974

The New Breed
1961

Suspense
1949

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Playwrights '56
1955

Honey West
1965

Tales of Tomorrow
1951

Code Name: Foxfire
1985

Channing
1963

Lights Out
1949

Letter to Loretta
1953

Ghost Story
1972

The Tammy Grimes Show
1966

Gun Shy
1983

The Outsider
1968

The Web
1950

Night Gallery
1970

The Six Million Dollar Man
1974

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Father Knows Best
1954

Adam-12
1968

Lux Video Theatre
1950

Lux Video Theatre
1950

Petrocelli
1974

The Six Million Dollar Man
1974

Daniel Boone
1964

Checkmate
1960

The Name of the Game
1968

The Name of the Game
1968

Thriller
1960

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Studio One
1948

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Studio One
1948

Studio One
1948

Studio One
1948

Emergency!
1972

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964

The Untouchables
1959

Suspense
1949

MacGyver
1985

The Love Boat
1977

Barney Miller
1975

Nanny and the Professor
1970

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Coach
1989

Kraft Television Theatre
1947

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962

Kraft Television Theatre
1947

The Comedy Factory
1985

Fantasy Island
1978

The Mod Squad
1968

Bonanza
1959

The Real McCoys
1957

The Investigators
1961

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

Quincy, M.E.
1976

The Virginian
1962

Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983

Wagon Train
1957

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964

The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967

Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
1954

The Second Hundred Years
1967

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964

The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970

The Partridge Family
1970

I Married Dora
1987

Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953