Barry Jones


About

Born
March 06, 1893
Died
May 01, 1981

Biography

Originally a stage actor, Englishman Barry Jones successfully transitioned to the screen in 1932 and went on to work for over three decades in film and television in both the United States and England. His first several film roles were, appropriately, derived from plays, including the crime thriller "Number 17," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and the George Bernard Shaw romantic-comedy ad...

Biography

Originally a stage actor, Englishman Barry Jones successfully transitioned to the screen in 1932 and went on to work for over three decades in film and television in both the United States and England. His first several film roles were, appropriately, derived from plays, including the crime thriller "Number 17," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and the George Bernard Shaw romantic-comedy adaption "Arms and the Man," in which Jones starred as Capt. Bluntschli. By the end of the 1930s, Jones made his first appearance on television, and by the mid-1950s he was working on such American theater-based programs as "Kraft Theatre" and "Robert Montgomery Presents." While stateside, Jones continued to take on aristocratic roles, including King Luke in "Prince Valiant," Aristotle in "Alexander the Great"--in which he starred alongside such acting royalty as Richard Burton, Fredric March, and Claire Bloom--and as Prince Mikhail Andreevich Rostov in the 1956 epic "War and Peace." Jones' career soon peaked, in terms of critical recognition, on an episode of the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" titled "Victoria Regina"; for his characteristically authoritative role of The Dean, Jones earned a Best Supporting Actor Emmy nomination. He was soon back on television in the U.K., with a leading role in the mini-series "Martin Chuzzlewit."

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Plymouth Adventure (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Or Die In Our Souls... The second ship now out of the picture, Captain Jones (Spencer Tracy) receives the determined Pilgrim spokesman (Leo Genn as Bradford, with Lowell Gilmore and Paul Cavanaugh) and offers new rules, especially regarding their previously incognito fugitive leader Brewster (Barry Jones), in MGM’s Plymouth Adventure, 1952.
War And Peace (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Marching Away To Fight Opening scene, King Vidor directing at Cinecittà in Rome, in the Dino De Laurentis/Carlo Ponti production for Paramount, we meet Henry Fonda as an unusually dashing Pierre, with his friends the Rostovs, Barry Jones as Count Ilya, Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, in War And Peace, 1956.
Demetrius And The Gladiators (1954) -- (Movie Clip) To Die With Style Trainer Ernest Borgnine is briefing new recruits including captured Christian Demetrius (Victor Mature) when wobbly Claudius (Barry Jones) and his enthusiastic wife Messalina (Susan Hayward) arrive to review candidates for a fight before the emperor, in Demetrius And The Gladiators, 1954.
Demetrius And The Gladiators (1954) -- (Movie Clip) They Want Him Spared Demetrius (Victor Mature) amd Glycon (William Marshall) are the last men standing in the fight for emperor Caligula (Barry Jones), his uncle Claudius (Jay Robinson) and his lusting wife Messalina (Susan Hayward) attending, in the sequel to The Robe, Demetrius And The Gladiators, 1954.
Seven Days to Noon -- (Movie Clip) There's Your Haystack As policeman Folland (Andre' Morell) looks out over London, fugitive nuclear scientist Professor Wallingdon (Barry Jones) makes only his second brief appearance, alone in a church, in Seven Days to Noon, 1950.

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