Acting · Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA · Born August 1, 1912
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.
MoviePicture Windows: Lightning
1995
as Assayer
MovieBreathing Lessons
1994
as Sam
MovieMastergate
1992
as Oral Proctor
MovieGrass Roots
1992
as Sen. Ben Carr
MovieThe Grifters
1990
as Sims
MovieArachnophobia
1990
as Dr. Sam Metcalf
MovieDick Tracy
1990
as Night Clerk
MovieEnid Is Sleeping
1990
as Old Man
MovieNowhere to Run
1989
as Judge Culbert
TVCoach
1989
as Mr. Newbower
I Married Dora
1987
as Hughes Whitney Lennox
MovieThe Leftovers
1986
as Thorndike
TVSidekicks
1986
TVMacGyver
1985
as Charles 'Papa Chuck' Banning
TVThe Comedy Factory
1985
as Morton Waterman
MovieCode Name: Foxfire
1985
as Phillips
TVCode Name: Foxfire
1985
as Phillips
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Morris Penroy
TVScarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
as Barney Dorsey
TVGun Shy
1983
as Homer McCoy
MovieThe Magic Statue
1982
as Cyril Carson
TVFilthy Rich
1982
TVCagney & Lacey
1982
MovieDeathtrap
1982
as Porter Milgrim
MovieTales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982
TVFalcon Crest
1981
as B. Riley Wicker
TVHere's Boomer
1981
MovieCalifornia Gold Rush
1981
as Joe Gillis
MovieNine to Five
1980
as Mr. Hinkle
TVMagnum, P.I.
1980
as The Butler
TVMrs. Columbo
1979
as Josh Alden
TVB. J. and the Bear
1979
TVSupertrain
1979
as James Malinson
TVVega$
1978
TVFantasy Island
1978
as Bank Teller
TVThe Love Boat
1977
as Frank Jensen
TVCHiPs
1977
as Dutton
MovieTail Gunner Joe
1977
as Armitage
TVQuincy, M.E.
1976
TVPhyllis
1975
as Jonathan Dexter
MovieWho Is the Black Dahlia?
1975
as Lee Jones
TVBarney Miller
1975
as Father Clement
MoviePlease Call It Murder
1975
as Dr. Vincent
MovieRoll, Freddy, Roll!
1974
as Theodore Menlo
TVKolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
as Captain Julian Wells
TVPetrocelli
1974
as Wheaton
TVRun, Joe, Run
1974
as Feeny
TVThese Are the Days
1974
TVThe Six Million Dollar Man
1974
as Dr. Dolenz
MovieThe Outfit
1973
as Doctor
TVBob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1973
TVThe Girl with Something Extra
1973
as Owen Metcalf
MovieHitched
1973
as Barnstable
MovieTom Sawyer
1973
as Senhor Dobbins
TVHawkins
1973
as George Davis
MovieThe Letters
1973
as Mailman
MoviePete 'n' Tillie
1972
as Mr. Tucker
TVGhost Story
1972
as Truthers
MovieThe Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972
as Codge Collier
TVThe Paul Lynde Show
1972
MovieNapoleon and Samantha
1972
as Mr. Amos Gutteridge
TVEmergency!
1972
as Dr. Alexander Knott
MovieSkin Game
1971
as Sam Cutler
MovieThe Day They Hanged Kid Curry
1971
as Judge
TVOwen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
as Dr. Metz
The Man and the City
1971
MovieSupport Your Local Gunfighter
1971
as Ez
MovieLove Hate Love
1971
as Tom Blunden
TVAlias Smith and Jones
1971
TVNight Gallery
1970
as Malcolm Hample
MovieDirty Dingus Magee
1970
as Rev. Green
MovieThe 48-Hour Mile
1970
as Decker
MovieRabbit, Run
1970
as Mr. Angstrom
TVThe Partridge Family
1970
as Mr. Phelps
TVThe Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
as Mr. Arnell
MovieThe Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970
as Hanson
MovieThe Movie Murderer
1970
as Martin Moss
TVNanny and the Professor
1970
as Mr. Abercrombie
MovieButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
as Bike Salesman
MovieRascal
1969
as Garth Shadwick
MovieAngel in My Pocket
1969
as Will Sinclair
MovieSupport Your Local Sheriff!
1969
as Henry Jackson
MovieSomething for a Lonely Man
1968
as R.J. Hoferkamp
TVHere Come the Brides
1968
TVThe Mod Squad
1968
TVAdam-12
1968
as Harry Craig
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as Mr. McKim
TVThe Outsider
1968
MovieProject X
1968
as Dr. Crowther
MovieStay Away, Joe
1968
as Hy Slager
TVThe Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
as Preacher Soul
TVThe Second Hundred Years
1967
as Langston Barnes
MovieThe Crucible
1967
as Reverend Parris
MovieThe Champagne Murders
1967
as Mr. Clark
TVThat Girl
1966
TVTarzan
1966
The Tammy Grimes Show
1966
MovieNever Too Late
1965
as Dr. Kimbrough
TVHoney West
1965
as Reedy Comfort
TVLost in Space
1965
as Jeremiah Smith
TVThe Big Valley
1965
as General Alderson
Profiles in Courage
1964
as Hamilton Fish
TVDaniel Boone
1964
as Landers
TVThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Vincent Lockridge
TVBewitched
1964
TVVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964
as Dr. Sprague
TVKraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Prof. Raymond Shipley
TVBurke's Law
1963
as Harrison Quentin Filmore
TVChanning
1963
as Dean Fred Baker
MovieThe Best Years
1963
as Dean Baker
TVThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Alex Morrow
TVThe Virginian
1962
as Ned Cochran
TVThe Investigators
1961
as The Gov
TVThe New Breed
1961
as Davidson
MovieAngel Baby
1961
as Ben Hays
TVRoute 66
1960
TVOutlaws
1960
TVCheckmate
1960
as Ed Thurston, D.A.
TVThriller
1960
as Erik Borg
MovieThe Bramble Bush
1960
as Parker Welk
MovieCash McCall
1960
as Gil Clark
TVThe Untouchables
1959
as Brooks Wells
TVStartime
1959
as Byrnes
TVAdventures in Paradise
1959
as Professor Flanders
TVThe Twilight Zone
1959
as J. Hardy Hempstead
TVBonanza
1959
as King Arthur / Uncle Leo
MovieVertigo
1958
as Coroner
The Mystery of Thirteen
1957
as Walter Palmer
TVThe Real McCoys
1957
as Jed McCoy
TVWagon Train
1957
as Ben Morrell
Movie3:10 to Yuma
1957
as Alex Potter
MovieWill Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957
as Henry Rufus
MovieThe Girl Can't Help It
1956
as Mousie
MovieThe Girl He Left Behind
1956
as Hanson
MovieThe Bad Seed
1956
as Leroy Jessup
Playwrights '56
1955
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Wally Long
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Harvey Cagle
TVThe Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Homer McCoy
TVClimax!
1954
as Dr. Barney O'Keefe
TVFather Knows Best
1954
as Mr Kermit
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
1954
TVLetter to Loretta
1953
as Henry Stokes
TVRevlon Mirror Theatre
1953
TVYou Are There
1953
as William Savage
MovieTaxi
1953
as Thorndike (uncredited)
MovieMr. Matches
1953
as Mr. Matches
MovieThe Lady Says No
1952
as Potsy
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Sam
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
TVTales of Tomorrow
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Sanford
Danger
1950
The Web
1950
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
TVLights Out
1949
TVSuspense
1949
as Man at Train Station
TVStudio One
1948
as Sloane
TVThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Professor Stark-Purvis
TVKraft Television Theatre
1947
MovieThis Is the Army
1943
as Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)
