Henry Jones

Henry Buck Jones (1 August 1912 – 17 May 1999) was an American actor. He was the voice of Jeff Day on These Are the Days.
== Biography ==
Henry Jones was born in Philadelphia; he graduated from St. Joseph's College. His Broadway debut was in 1938 in Maurice Evans' Hamlet (Reynaldo and the second gravedigger). He served in the Army in World War II. His highly reviewed stage appearances included the murdered handyman in The Bad Seed, which he reprised in the 1956 film version, and the part of Louis Howe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's confidant, in Sunrise at Campobello (1960).
Though very ordinary in appearance ("The casting directors didn't know what to do with me. I was never tall enough or good looking enough to play juvenile leads"), Jones had a long and varied career on Broadway, in movies and television. His parts included a wide range of second-string roles (ministers, judges, janitors), often with a dark and even frightening underside.
Jones' television career, which included over 150 appearances, began in 1950. Though his movies included such well-known titles as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Grifters (1990) and Dick Tracy (1990), no doubt his most recognizable screen performance was in the brief role of the methodical, nearly cruel coroner in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). He lived in Santa Monica, California, and died on May 17, 1999, aged 86, at the UCLA Medical Center.
== External Links ==
* Henry Jones (I) at the Internet Movie Database
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