Henry Jones
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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Movies (61)
Picture Windows: Lightning
1995 · Assayer
Breathing Lessons
1994 · Sam
Mastergate
1992 · Oral Proctor
Grass Roots
1992 · Sen. Ben Carr
The Grifters
1990 · Sims
Arachnophobia
1990 · Dr. Sam Metcalf
Dick Tracy
1990 · Night Clerk
Enid Is Sleeping
1990 · Old Man
Nowhere to Run
1989 · Judge Culbert
The Leftovers
1986 · Thorndike
Code Name: Foxfire
1985 · Phillips
The Magic Statue
1982 · Cyril Carson
Deathtrap
1982 · Porter Milgrim
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982
California Gold Rush
1981 · Joe Gillis
Nine to Five
1980 · Mr. Hinkle
Tail Gunner Joe
1977 · Armitage
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
1975 · Lee Jones
Please Call It Murder
1975 · Dr. Vincent
Roll, Freddy, Roll!
1974 · Theodore Menlo
The Outfit
1973 · Doctor
Hitched
1973 · Barnstable
Tom Sawyer
1973 · Senhor Dobbins
The Letters
1973 · Mailman
Pete 'n' Tillie
1972 · Mr. Tucker
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972 · Codge Collier
Napoleon and Samantha
1972 · Mr. Amos Gutteridge
Skin Game
1971 · Sam Cutler
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
1971 · Judge
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971 · Ez
Love Hate Love
1971 · Tom Blunden
Dirty Dingus Magee
1970 · Rev. Green
The 48-Hour Mile
1970 · Decker
Rabbit, Run
1970 · Mr. Angstrom
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970 · Hanson
The Movie Murderer
1970 · Martin Moss
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 · Bike Salesman
Rascal
1969 · Garth Shadwick
Angel in My Pocket
1969 · Will Sinclair
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 · Henry Jackson
Something for a Lonely Man
1968 · R.J. Hoferkamp
Project X
1968 · Dr. Crowther
Stay Away, Joe
1968 · Hy Slager
The Crucible
1967 · Reverend Parris
The Champagne Murders
1967 · Mr. Clark
Never Too Late
1965 · Dr. Kimbrough
The Best Years
1963 · Dean Baker
Angel Baby
1961 · Ben Hays
The Bramble Bush
1960 · Parker Welk
Cash McCall
1960 · Gil Clark
Vertigo
1958 · Coroner
The Mystery of Thirteen
1957 · Walter Palmer
3:10 to Yuma
1957 · Alex Potter
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957 · Henry Rufus
The Girl Can't Help It
1956 · Mousie
The Girl He Left Behind
1956 · Hanson
The Bad Seed
1956 · Leroy Jessup
Taxi
1953 · Thorndike (uncredited)
Mr. Matches
1953 · Mr. Matches
The Lady Says No
1952 · Potsy
This Is the Army
1943 · Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)
TV shows (100)
Coach
1989 · Mr. Newbower
I Married Dora
1987 · Hughes Whitney Lennox
Sidekicks
1986
MacGyver
1985 · Charles 'Papa Chuck' Banning
The Comedy Factory
1985 · Morton Waterman
Code Name: Foxfire
1985 · Phillips
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Morris Penroy
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983 · Barney Dorsey
Gun Shy
1983 · Homer McCoy
Filthy Rich
1982
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Falcon Crest
1981 · B. Riley Wicker
Here's Boomer
1981
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · The Butler
Mrs. Columbo
1979 · Josh Alden
B. J. and the Bear
1979
Supertrain
1979 · James Malinson
Vega$
1978
Fantasy Island
1978 · Bank Teller
The Love Boat
1977 · Frank Jensen
CHiPs
1977 · Dutton
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · Richard Hawley
Phyllis
1975 · Jonathan Dexter
Barney Miller
1975 · Father Clement
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974 · Captain Julian Wells
Petrocelli
1974 · Wheaton
Run, Joe, Run
1974 · Feeny
These Are the Days
1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974 · Dr. Dolenz, Dr. Chester Dolenz
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1973
The Girl with Something Extra
1973 · Owen Metcalf
Hawkins
1973 · George Davis
Ghost Story
1972 · Truthers
The Paul Lynde Show
1972
Emergency!
1972 · Dr. Alexander Knott
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971 · Dr. Metz
The Man and the City
1971
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Night Gallery
1970 · Malcolm Hample
The Partridge Family
1970 · Mr. Phelps
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 · Mr. Arnell
Nanny and the Professor
1970 · Mr. Abercrombie
Here Come the Brides
1968
The Mod Squad
1968 · Herbert Milne
Adam-12
1968 · Harry Craig
The Name of the Game
1968 · Mr. McKim, George
The Outsider
1968
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · Preacher Soul
The Second Hundred Years
1967 · Langston Barnes
That Girl
1966
Tarzan
1966
The Tammy Grimes Show
1966
Honey West
1965 · Reedy Comfort
Lost in Space
1965 · Jeremiah Smith
The Big Valley
1965 · General Alderson
Profiles in Courage
1964 · Hamilton Fish
Daniel Boone
1964 · Landers, Jonas Morgan
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Vincent Lockridge, Dean Timothy Dwight
Bewitched
1964
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964 · Dr. Sprague
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Prof. Raymond Shipley
Burke's Law
1963 · Harrison Quentin Filmore
Channing
1963 · Dean Fred Baker
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Alex Morrow
The Virginian
1962 · Ned Cochran
The Investigators
1961 · The Gov
The New Breed
1961 · Davidson
Route 66
1960
Outlaws
1960
Checkmate
1960 · Ed Thurston, D.A.
Thriller
1960 · Erik Borg, Carl Somers
The Untouchables
1959 · Brooks Wells
Startime
1959 · Byrnes
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Professor Flanders
The Twilight Zone
1959 · J. Hardy Hempstead
Bonanza
1959 · King Arthur / Uncle Leo
The Real McCoys
1957 · Jed McCoy
Wagon Train
1957 · Ben Morrell
Playwrights '56
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Wally Long, Harry Parker, George Tiffany, John Treadwell, Miles Cheever
Gunsmoke
1955 · Harvey Cagle, Papa Steiffer, J. Luther Gross
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Homer McCoy
Climax!
1954 · Dr. Barney O'Keefe
Father Knows Best
1954 · Mr Kermit
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
1954
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Henry Stokes
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
You Are There
1953 · William Savage
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Sam
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Sanford, Jim, Dan
Danger
1950
The Web
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Lights Out
1949
Suspense
1949 · Man at Train Station, Mr. Matches
Studio One
1948 · Sloane, Simon Hazlett, Mr. Weaver, St. Barnabas, Sam
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Professor Stark-Purvis
Kraft Television Theatre
1947 · Professor Bowdin