Henry Jones
Henry Jones
Starting out in musicals and comedies, leather-lunged character actor Henry Jones had developed into a versatile dramatic actor by the 1950s, though he never abandoned his willingness to make people laugh. Jones scored his first cinematic bullseye when he re-created his Broadway role as the malevolent handyman Leroy in the 1956 cinemadaptation of Maxwell Anderson's The Bad Seed (1956). Refusing to be typed, Jones followed this triumph with a brace of quietly comic roles in Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter. He returned to Broadway in 1958, winning the Tony and New York Drama Critics' awards for his performance in Sunrise at Campobello. Since that time, Jones has flourished in films, often making big impressions in the tiniest of roles: the coroner in Vertigo (1958), the bicycle salesman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), the hotel night clerk in Dick Tracy (1990) and so on. From 1963's Channing onward, Jones has been a regular on several weekly TV series, most notably as Judge Jonathan Dexter in Phyllis (1975-76) and B. Riley Wicker on the nighttime serial Falcon Crest (1985-86). Henry Jones is the father of actress Jocelyn Jones. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Henry Jones:
- Vertigo with James Stewart , Kim Novak , Barbara Bel Geddes , Raymond Bailey , Ellen Corby , Lee Patrick , Fred Graham
- Dick Tracy with Warren Beatty , Glenne Headly , Madonna , Al Pacino , Dustin Hoffman , William Forsythe , Charles Durning , Mandy Patinkin , Paul Sorvino , R.G. Armstrong , Dick VanDyke , Seymour Cassel , Allen Garfield , Charles Fleischer , James S. Tolkan , Kathy Bates , Catherine O'Hara , Henry Silva , James Caan , Bert Remsen , Michael J. Pollard , Estelle Parsons , Mary Woronov , Mike Mazurki , Hamilton Camp , Robert Costanzo , Arthur Malet , Colm Meaney , Ian Wolfe
- Rascal with Bill Mumy , Elsa Lanchester , Walter Pidgeon , John Fiedler , Richard Erdman , Robert Emhardt
- Tom Sawyer with Celeste Holm , Warren Oates , Jeff East , Jodie Foster , Dub Taylor
- This Is the Army with George Murphy , Joan Leslie , Ronald W. Reagan , Alan Sr. Hale , George Tobias , Charles Butterworth , Dolores Costello , Una Merkel , Stanley Ridges , Rosemary DeCamp , Ruth Donnelly , Frances Langford , Warner Anderson , Irving Berlin , Frank Jr. Coghlan , Richard Crane , John James , Victor Moore , Arthur Space , Ernest Truex , Doodles Weaver , Gene Nelson
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