Barry Jones (actor)

British actor (1893–1981)

Barry Jones
Jones in The Glass Slipper (1955)
Born	Barry Cuthbert Jones (1893-03-06)6 March 1893 St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Died	1 May 1981(1981-05-01) (aged 88) Guernsey, Channel Islands
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1921–1965

Barry Cuthbert Jones (6 March 1893 – 1 May 1981) was an actor in British and American films, on American television and on the stage.^[1]^[2]

Biography

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. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. 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. Archived from the original on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
^ Ellacott, Vivyan. "London Musicals 1935–1939" Archived 10 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Over the Footlights, accessed 12 March 2013
^ Hal Erickson. "Barry Jones – Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos – AllMovie". AllMovie.
^ "Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)". BFI. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.