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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.912 |
| Birthday | 1912-08-01 |
| Place of Birth | Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As | Henry Burk Jones, |
1958
Vertigo
8.2/5742
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming danger...
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Vertigo
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7.6/2186
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in ho...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1971
Skin Game
6.565/31
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in...
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Skin Game
1990
Arachnophobia
6.4/1380
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider...
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Arachnophobia
1995
Lightning
0/0
Against the backdrop of California’s 19th century Gold Rush, Brian Keith plays a lucky digger in a story of greed and equine smarts.
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Lightning
1969
Support Your Local Sheriff!
6.9/175
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
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Support Your Local Sheriff!
1973
The Outfit
6.8/72
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsucc...
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The Outfit
1977
Tail Gunner Joe
6/2
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later plann...
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Tail Gunner Joe
1957
3:10 to Yuma
7.2/354
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's ga...
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3:10 to Yuma
1956
The Bad Seed
7.107/242
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps he...
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The Bad Seed
1968
Project X
5.6/16
A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon...
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Project X
1956
The Girl Can't Help It
6/63
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
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The Girl Can't Help It
1957
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
6.7/65
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1982
Deathtrap
6.7/255
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
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Deathtrap
1990
The Grifters
6.5/390
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own a...
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The Grifters
1982
The Magic Statue
0/0
A young woman's wish that she be able to exchange places with her husband is granted.
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The Magic Statue
1970
Dirty Dingus Magee
4.7/12
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his...
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Dirty Dingus Magee
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter
6.5/79
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to driv...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
1969
Rascal
5.8/20
A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his fathe...
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Rascal
1967
The Champagne Murders
5.5/22
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
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The Champagne Murders
1969
Angel in My Pocket
5.3/3
The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.
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Angel in My Pocket
1986
The Leftovers
6/5
A close-knit group of orphans and their father-figure, Max, try to keep their home from being shut down. Helping them out are a single mom and the eld...
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The Leftovers
1982
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
2/1
A remake of the 1975 feature film. Donavan arrives in town and soon finds he is the legal guardian to two kids, Clovis and Celia. He tries to decline...
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Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1972
Pete 'n' Tillie
5.5/17
A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.
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Pete 'n' Tillie
1961
Angel Baby
6/11
A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural...
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Angel Baby
1972
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
5.2/5
Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket and a thief to pose as his family.
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The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1970
Rabbit, Run
3.5/4
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass i...
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Rabbit, Run
1970
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
6.3/3
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.
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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1975
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
6.4/11
In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
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Who Is the Black Dahlia?
1943
This Is the Army
5.7/21
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son...
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This Is the Army
1965
Never Too Late
5/5
A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul...
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Never Too Late
1971
Love Hate Love
5.8/5
Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance w...
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Love Hate Love
1981
California Gold Rush
5/1
Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west fo...
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California Gold Rush
1975
Please Call It Murder
0/0
The wife of an executive finds her husband shot to death and destroys his suicide note in order to claim his insurance.
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Please Call It Murder
1953
Taxi
6.4/6
A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.
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Taxi
1973
Tom Sawyer
6.3/54
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and wit...
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Tom Sawyer
1973
The Letters
6.7/3
Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.
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The Letters
1992
Grass Roots
0/0
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Sen...
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Grass Roots
1970
The Movie Murderer
6.5/3
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
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The Movie Murderer
1960
Cash McCall
6/13
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. W...
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Cash McCall
1953
Mr. Matches
0/0
An arsonist-for-hire dubbed "Mr. Matches" has been been torching buildings all around the city. Bernard Frank, head of the fire bureau, knows who he's...
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Mr. Matches
1985
Code Name: Foxfire
0/0
Pilot for TV series released on home video.
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Code Name: Foxfire
1980
Nine to Five
6.9/486
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage of the women who work with him in the grossest manner. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own...
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Nine to Five
1974
Roll, Freddy, Roll!
6/2
A man determined to impress his son--and show up his son's stepfather--decides to try to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by setting a reco...
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Roll, Freddy, Roll!
1960
The Bramble Bush
5.5/4
A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
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The Bramble Bush
1956
The Girl He Left Behind
4/3
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David...
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The Girl He Left Behind
1968
Something for a Lonely Man
7.4/8
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the tow...
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Something for a Lonely Man
1989
Nowhere to Run
4.3/3
Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret tha...
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Nowhere to Run
1972
Napoleon and Samantha
6.1/30
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse...
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Napoleon and Samantha
1992
Mastergate
2/1
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate...
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Mastergate
1990
Dick Tracy
6.1/930
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...
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Dick Tracy
1990
Enid Is Sleeping
4.8/8
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, where...
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Enid Is Sleeping
1952
The Lady Says No
4.5/11
The feminist author of a national best-seller titled The Lady Says No meets a sexist magazine photographer and decides she'd rather say yes.
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The Lady Says No
1994
Breathing Lessons
5.4/5
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
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Breathing Lessons
1967
The Crucible
3.5/2
Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
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The Crucible
1968
Stay Away, Joe
5.3/21
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can success...
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Stay Away, Joe
1971
Hitched
6/2
The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.
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Hitched
1971
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
0/0
Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry is on trial for murder in Colorado. Heyes rushes to...
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