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Henry Jones

Henry Jones

Henry Burk Jones (August 1, 1912 – May 17, 1999) was an American actor of stage, film and television.

Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Helen (née Burk) and John Francis Xavier Jones. He was the grandson of Pennsylvania Representative Henry Burk. He attended the Jesuit-run Saint Joseph's Preparatory School.

Jones is remembered for his role as handyman Leroy Jessup in the movie The Bad Seed (1956), a role he originated on Broadway. Other theatre credits included My Sister Eileen, Hamlet, The Time of Your Life, They Knew What They Wanted, The Solid Gold Cadillac, and Sunrise at Campobello, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Performance in a Drama.

Jones appeared in more than 180 movies and television shows. His screen credits included The Girl Can't Help It, 3:10 to Yuma, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Vertigo, Cash McCall, The Bramble Bush, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dirty Dingus Magee, Support Your Local Gunfighter, and Arachnophobia.

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Picture Windows: Lightning (1995)

Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows," Joe Dante's "Lightning" is a Gold Rush tale marking Brian Keith's final screen role. As an aging prospector strikes it rich with the help of a quick-witted mule, two schemers move in—only to find the animal ...

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Breathing Lessons (1994)

A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral. ...

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Mastergate (1992)

A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973. ...

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Grass Roots (1992)

This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this ...

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The Grifters (1990)

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play. ...

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Arachnophobia (1990)

A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the de ...

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Dick Tracy (1990)

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob. ...

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Enid Is Sleeping (1990)

Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities, including ...

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Nowhere to Run (1989)

Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most di ...

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The Leftovers (1986)

A close-knit group of orphans and their father-figure, Max, try to keep their home from being shut down. Helping them out are a single mom and the elderly butler from Max's aunt's mansion, where Max grew up. ...

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Code Name: Foxfire (1985)

Pilot for TV series released on home video. ...

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The Magic Statue (1982)

A young woman's wish that she be able to exchange places with her husband is granted. ...

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Deathtrap (1982)

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script. ...

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Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang (1982)

A remake of the 1975 feature film. Donavan arrives in town and soon finds he is the legal guardian to two kids, Clovis and Celia. He tries to decline but the sheriff insists... ...

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California Gold Rush (1981)

Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west forever. ...

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Nine to Five (1980)

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him. ...

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Tail Gunner Joe (1977)

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President. ...

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Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975)

In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short. ...

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Please Call It Murder (1975)

The wife of an executive finds her husband shot to death and destroys his suicide note in order to claim his insurance. ...

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Roll, Freddy, Roll! (1974)

A man determined to impress his son--and show up his son's stepfather--decides to try to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by setting a record for staying the longest time on roller skates. ...

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The Outfit (1973)

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother. ...

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Hitched (1973)

The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West. ...

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Tom Sawyer (1973)

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder. ...

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The Letters (1973)

Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters. ...

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Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)

A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing. ...

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The Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1972)

Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket and a thief to pose as his family. ...

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Napoleon and Samantha (1972)

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend. ...

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Skin Game (1971)

Quincy Drew and Jason O'Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the ...

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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town. ...

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Love Hate Love (1971)

Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily. ...

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Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)

Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his money. Hoke goes to the nearby town of Yerkey's Hole, where Belle Knops is both mayor and bordello-mistres ...

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Rabbit, Run (1970)

Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and ru ...

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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)

A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride. ...

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The Movie Murderer (1970)

An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets. ...

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law. ...

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Rascal (1969)

A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his father's frequent absences. ...

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Angel in My Pocket (1969)

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens. ...

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Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. ...

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Something for a Lonely Man (1968)

The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad. ...

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Project X (1968)

A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-ad ...

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Stay Away, Joe (1968)

Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will help al ...

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The Crucible (1967)

Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards. ...

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The Champagne Murders (1967)

A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for. ...

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Never Too Late (1965)

A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be. ...

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Angel Baby (1961)

A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South. ...

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The Bramble Bush (1960)

A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend. ...

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Cash McCall (1960)

Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it ...

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Vertigo (1958)

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. ...

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3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him. ...

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover. ...

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The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks. ...

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The Girl He Left Behind (1956)

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by ...

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The Bad Seed (1956)

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, ...

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Taxi (1953)

A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband. ...

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Mr. Matches (1953)

An arsonist-for-hire dubbed "Mr. Matches" has been been torching buildings all around the city. Bernard Frank, head of the fire bureau, knows who he's looking for because he's spotted in the crowd at each of his jobs admiring his work. To catch "Mr. Matche ...

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The Lady Says No (1952)

The feminist author of a national best-seller titled The Lady Says No meets a sexist magazine photographer and decides she'd rather say yes. ...

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This Is the Army (1943)

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, call ...

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