Barry Jones (actor)
Barry Jones | |
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| Born | 6 March 1893 |
| Died | 1 May 1981 (aged 88) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1921–1965 |
Barry Jones (6 March 1893 – 1 May 1981) was an actor seen in British and American films, on American television and on the stage.[1][2]
Biography
Barry Jones was born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands in 1893.[3] He started his acting career on the British stage in 1921.[4] He performed in his first film, Shaw's Arms and the Man as Bluntschli in 1932.[5] In 1935, he originated the role of King Stephen in Ivor Novello's stage musical, Glamorous Night.[6]
A character actor in many films, often portraying nobility, he had a starring role in the film Seven Days to Noon.[7] He also played Mr. Lundie in the 1954 film adaptation of Brigadoon, and Polonius in the 1953 U.S. television adaptation of Hamlet.[1] He appeared as Claudius in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a sequel to 20th Century Fox's biblical epic, The Robe.[8] This character was Caligula's uncle and became the new Emperor after Caligula's death.
Jones died at the age of eighty-eight in Guernsey.[1]
Selected filmography
- Women Who Play (1932) as Ernest Steele
- Number Seventeen (1932) as Henry Doyle
- Arms and the Man (1932) as Captain Bluntschli
- The Gay Adventure (1936) as Darnton
- Murder in the Family (1938) as Stephen Osborne
- Squadron Leader X (1943) as Bruce Fenwick
- Frieda (1947) as Holliday
- Dancing with Crime (1947) as Gregory
- The Calendar (1948) as Sir John Garth
- Uneasy Terms (1948) as Inspector Gringall
- That Dangerous Age (1949) as Arnold Cane
- The Bad Lord Byron (1949) as Colonel Stonhope
- Twelve O'Clock High (1949) as Lord Haw-Haw (voice, uncredited)
- Madeleine (1950) as Lord Advocate
- Seven Days to Noon (1950) as Professor Willingdon
- The Mudlark (1950) as Speaker (uncredited)
- The Clouded Yellow (1951) as Nicholas Fenton
- White Corridors (1951) as Dr. Shoesmith
- Appointment with Venus (1951) as Provost
- The Magic Box (1951) as The Bath Doctor
- Plymouth Adventure (1952) as William Brewster
- Hamlet (1953) as Polonius
- Return to Paradise (1953) as Pastor Corbett
- Prince Valiant (1954) as King Luke
- Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) as Claudius
- Brigadoon (1954) as Mr. Lundie
- The Glass Slipper (1955) as Duke
- Alexander the Great (1956) as Aristotle
- War and Peace (1956) as Prince Mikhail Andreevich Rostov
- Saint Joan (1957) as De Courcelles
- The Safecracker (1958) as Bennett Carfield
- The 39 Steps (1959) as Professor Logan
- Karolina Rijecka (1961) as Admiral
- A Study in Terror (1965) as Duke of Shires
- The Heroes of Telemark (1965) as Professor Logan (final film role)
Appearances in TV series
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (1953–1961)
- Robert Montgomery Presents (1955–1956) as Captain Whalley
- The Saint (1963) as Otis Q. Fennick
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Patrick Holt
- The Outer Limits (1963) as Dwight Hartley
- Martin Chuzzlewit (1964) as Martin Chuzzlewit the Elder
- The Spread of the Eagle (1963) as Julius Caesar
- Sherlock Holmes (1965) as Charles Augustus Milverton
Sources
- Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies published by Harper-Collins - ISBN 0-06-093507-3
References
- ^ a b c "Barry Jones | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. 1 May 1981. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ "Barry Jones - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ The Broadway League. "Barry Jones - IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information". ibdb.com.
- ^ "Barry Jones". britmovie.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ "Arms and the Man (1932)". BFI.
- ^ Ellacott, Vivyan. "London Musicals 1935-1939", Over the Footlights, accessed 12 March 2013
- ^ Hal Erickson. "Barry Jones - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)". BFI.
