G. Stanley Jones
G. Stanley Jones | |
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Born | |
Died | December 30, 1998 Los Angeles, California, United States | (aged 72)
Other names | G. Stanley Jones Staley Jones Stanley Jones |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1955–1997 |
Gordon Stanley Jones (October 23, 1926 – December 30, 1998), sometimes credited as G. Stanley Jones, Stanley G. Jones or Stanley Jones, was a Canadian film and television actor.
Early life
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Career
Jones appeared in over thirty television productions and in eight films. He did extensive voice acting. He was the narrator of the film Little Shop of Horrors (1986). One of his few non-voice roles was as a teller in an episode of the television series Beverly Hills, 90210.
Stan Jones is best known as the voice of Lex Luthor, the Superman villain and leader of The Legion of Doom, in the Hanna-Barbera television series Challenge Of The Super Friends, as well as voicing the characters Scourge, Lord Zarak and Weirdwolf in the television series The Transformers. He also played the voices of Kingpin and Doctor Octopus in the 1981 Spider-Man animated series. He voiced the Milkman, Wordsworth and Riff Raff in the television series Heathcliff (also known as Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats). He also voiced McAlister in the 1995 Don Bluth film The Pebble and the Penguin.
Death
He died, age 72, of complications from cancer in Los Angeles, California.
External links
- Stan Jones at IMDb
- 1926 births
- 1998 deaths
- Deaths from cancer in California
- Canadian expatriate male actors in the United States
- Canadian male film actors
- Canadian male radio actors
- Canadian male television actors
- Canadian male voice actors
- Male actors from Toronto
- 20th-century Canadian male actors
- Canadian screen actor stubs
- Canadian voice actor stubs