Emrys Jones (actor)

John Emrys Whittaker Jones (22 September 1915 – 10 July 1972) was an English actor.[1][2]

Emrys Jones
Jones in a publicity still for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
Born
John Emrys Whittaker Jones

(1915-09-22)22 September 1915
Manchester, England
Died10 July 1972(1972-07-10) (aged 56)
Johannesburg, South Africa
OccupationActor
Years active1937–1972
Spouse(s)
Pauline Bentley
(m. 1946; div. 1963)

Anne Ridler
(m. 1963; died 1972)

After making his stage debut in Donald Wolfit's company in 1937; his film debut came in Powell and Pressburger's One of Our Aircraft Is Missing in 1942, and he began to develop a career in the British cinema of the 1940s.[3][1] Due to his boyish looks he would often be cast as young innocents in films such as: The Wicked Lady (1945); The Rake's Progress (1945); Nicholas Nickleby (1947); and Powell and Pressburger's The Small Back Room (1949).[4]

When he was relegated to second features in the 1950s he concentrated on his stage career, maturing into an accomplished character actor in the process. The latter half of his career was mostly spent on television in such programmes as Softly, Softly; Out of the Unknown; Dixon of Dock Green; Doomwatch; Z-Cars; and perhaps most memorably as 'The Master of the Land of Fiction' in the Doctor Who serial, The Mind Robber.[5][6]

He was successively married to actresses Pauline Bentley and Anne Ridler, and died of a heart attack in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1972; where he was in a stage production, playing Winston Churchill.[3][7]

Film appearances

Year Title Role Notes
1942One of Our Aircraft Is MissingBob Ashley - Radio Operator in B for Bertie
1943The ShipbuildersYoung Naval Officer from HMS Milano
1945Give Me the StarsJack Ross
1945The Wicked LadyNed Cotterill
1945The Rake's ProgressBatesonUncredited
1946Beware of PityLt. Joszi Molnar
1947Nicholas NicklebyFrank Cheeryble
1947Holiday CampMichael Halliday
1948This Was a WomanTerry Russell
1949The Small Back RoomJoe
1949Dark SecretChris Merryman
1949Miss Pilgrim's ProgressVicar
1949Blue ScarTom Thomas
1953Deadly NightshadeMatthews / Barlow
1955Three Cases of MurderGeorge(segment "You Killed Elizabeth")
1956The Shield of Faith
1960The Trials of Oscar WildeRobbie Ross
1961Ticket to ParadiseJack Watson
1962SerenaHoward Rogers
1963On the RunFrank Stewart

Selected theatre work

References

  1. "Emrys Jones".
  2. "Emrys Jones - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111975 via Google Books.
  4. "Emrys Jones - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  5. "Emrys Jones". www.aveleyman.com.
  6. "The Mind Robber ★★★★".
  7. "EMRYS JONES".
  8. "Production of Macbeth - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  9. Wearing, J. P. (22 August 2014). The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893061 via Google Books.
  10. Wearing, J. P. (22 August 2014). The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893061 via Google Books.
  11. "Dial M. for Murder. By Frederick Knott. (Westminster.) WivEs should » 27 Jun 1952 » The Spectator Archive".
  12. Wearing, J. P. (16 September 2014). The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893085 via Google Books.
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