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Griffith Jones (actor)

Griffith Jones (actor)

Infobox Person
name=Griffith Jones


caption=
birth_date=birth date|1909|11|19|df=y
birth_place=London, England
death_date=death date and age|2007|1|30|1909|11|19|df=y
death_place= London, England

Griffith Jones (born Harold Jones; 19 November 1909 – 30 January 2007) was an English film, stage and television actor.

Born in London, England, Jones was the son of a Welsh-speaking dairy owner. In 1932, he married Robin Isaac, and they had two children: the actors Gemma Jones and Nicholas Jones. Robin died in 1985.

Early career

Jones made his professional acting debut in "Carpet Slippers" at the Embassy Theatre, London, in 1930. By 1932 he was appearing in West End productions of "Vile Bodies" and "Richard of Bordeaux" (in which he appeared with John Gielgud. In the following year he appeared with Laurence Olivier in "The Rats of Norway".

In 1932 he also made his film debut, in "The Faithful Heart", and he continued to appear in British films throughout the 1930s. In 1940 he joined the army, but spent most of World War II in a touring concert party, returning to the West End in 1945 to star in "Lady Windermere's Fan".

He was a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in over fifty productions with company between 1976 and 1998. His roles included Antigonus in "The Winter's Tale", Aegeon in "A Comedy of Errors", Gower in "Pericles, Prince of Tyre", Chebutiken and Ferrapont in separate productions of "Three Sisters" and Tim Linkinwater in "Nicholas Nickleby".

elected filmography

*"The Sea Shall Not Have Them" (1954)
*"Miranda" (1948)
*"They Made Me a Fugitive" (1947)
*"The Rake's Progress" (1945)
*"The Wicked Lady" (1945)
*"The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France" (1944)
*"First a Girl" (1935)
*"Escape Me Never" (1935)

ources

* [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2245093.ece Obituary in "The Independent"]

External links

*
* [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/stratfordians/stjongr.htm Biography at A Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company]


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