🎬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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Dick Tracy (1990)	Night Clerk		6.7
2	Enid Is Sleeping (1990)	Old Man	-	-
3	The Grifters (1990)	Sims		6.3
4	Arachnophobia (1990)	Dr. Sam Metcalf		6.8
5	Deathtrap (1982)	Porter Milgrim		7
6	Nine to Five (1980)	Mr. Hinkle		7.8
7	The Letters (1973)	Mailman		6
8	The Outfit (1973)	Doctor		5
9	Tom Sawyer (1973)	Senhor Dobbins		5
10	Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)	Mr. Tucker		6
11	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)	Bike Salesman		7.7
12	Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)	Henry Jackson		6.5
13	Stay Away, Joe (1968)	Hy Slager		6
14	The Bramble Bush (1960)	Parker Welk	-	-
15	Vertigo (1958)	Coroner		7.9
16	Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)	Henry Rufus	-	-
17	3:10 to Yuma (1957)	Alex Potter		7.5
18	The Bad Seed (1956)	Leroy Jessup		5
19	The Girl Can't Help It (1956)	Mousie	-	-
20	The Lady Says No (1952)	Potsy		4
21	This Is the Army (1943)	Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)	-	-