Peter Jones
Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones (12 June 1920 - 10 April 2000) was a distinguished British actor and radio personality known for his distinctive voice and narration. He gained recognition for his role as The Book in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," providing the voice of the eponymous guidebook in both the radio series and subsequent adaptations. Jones's soothing and authoritative voice lent a unique charm to the character, guiding audiences through the whimsical and absurd universe created by Douglas Adams. His contributions to the series as the voice of The Book became iconic and memorable for fans of the series.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.54 |
| Birthday | 1920-06-12 |
| Place of Birth | Wem, Shropshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones, |
1961
Nearly a Nasty Accident
7/2
The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he can get his hands on
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Nearly a Nasty Accident
1967
Carry On Doctor
6.4/69
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his...
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Carry On Doctor
1976
Carry On England
4.6/39
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardm...
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Carry On England
1960
School for Scoundrels
6.9/59
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen...
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School for Scoundrels
1981
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
7.156/135
An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive.
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1966
Press for Time
5.6/15
Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job...
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Press for Time
1951
The Browning Version
7.6/90
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his fina...
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The Browning Version
1949
Forbidden
6.9/8
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic...
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Forbidden
1951
Home to Danger
6/7
A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate.
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Home to Danger
1952
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
4.7/3
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1973
The Mansion of Madness
4.625/32
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place sho...
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The Mansion of Madness
1952
Miss Robin Hood
7.4/5
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition fro...
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Miss Robin Hood
1955
John and Julie
4.8/6
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
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John and Julie
1950
Cairo Road
5.8/6
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
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Cairo Road
1953
The Long Memory
6.5/17
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
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The Long Memory
1966
The Sandwich Man
6.1/7
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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The Sandwich Man
1953
The Yellow Balloon
5.6/8
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
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The Yellow Balloon
1949
The Blue Lagoon
6/12
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island...
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The Blue Lagoon
1953
A Day to Remember
7.125/4
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get i...
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A Day to Remember
1960
Never Let Go
6.5/26
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic org...
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Never Let Go
1961
Romanoff and Juliet
5.4/8
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling...
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Romanoff and Juliet
1956
Private's Progress
6.4/23
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be office...
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Private's Progress
1951
The Franchise Affair
6.7/3
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
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The Franchise Affair
1952
Angels One Five
6/30
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of B...
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Angels One Five
1967
Just Like a Woman
5/2
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewi...
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Just Like a Woman
1993
Tender Loving Care
0/0
Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosphere in her ward and is extremely attentive to her...
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Tender Loving Care
1953
Innocents in Paris
5.1/14
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
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Innocents in Paris
1976
Seven Nights in Japan
6.5/6
Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and smiling broadly, he goes through the complicated...
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Seven Nights in Japan
1999
Milk
2/1
Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies...
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Milk
1975
Confessions of a Pop Performer
5.1/18
Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group, o...
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Confessions of a Pop Performer
1952
The Magic Box
6.3/20
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...
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The Magic Box
1959
Operation Bullshine
5.1/6
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territoria...
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Operation Bullshine
1954
For Better, for Worse
5.6/9
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.1...
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For Better, for Worse
1967
Smashing Time
6.2/11
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
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Smashing Time
1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
6.802/592
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The...
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The Return of the Pink Panther
1981
Chariots of Fire
6.778/910
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d...
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Chariots of Fire
1953
The Good Beginning
0/0
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day...
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The Good Beginning
1950
Chance of a Lifetime
6.3/9
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
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Chance of a Lifetime
1950
Last Holiday
7.3/44
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside...
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Last Holiday
1953
Albert R.N.
7.2/10
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy w...
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Albert R.N.
1956
On Such a Night
0/0
An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to appreciat...
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On Such a Night
1952
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
8/4
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "...
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Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1999
Adventures in Space and Time
0/0
A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, transmitted as part of "Doctor Who Night" on BBC2.
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Adventures in Space and Time
1987
The Children Of Dynmouth
5.5/2
The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the town'...
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The Children Of Dynmouth
1957
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
6.4/22
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However,...
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1964
Father Came Too!
5.955/11
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up them...
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Father Came Too!
1946
I See a Dark Stranger
6.3/23
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits h...
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I See a Dark Stranger
1959
Danger Within
6.2/15
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysteriou...
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Danger Within
1945
Dead of Night
7.2/271
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. D...
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Dead of Night
1944
Fanny by Gaslight
5.7/8
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...
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Fanny by Gaslight
1968
Hot Millions
6.6/25
A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
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Hot Millions
1948
Vice Versa
6.3/3
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young agai...
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