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
Died	10 July 1972(1972-07-10) (aged 56) Johannesburg, South Africa
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1937–1972
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]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1942	One of Our Aircraft Is Missing	Bob Ashley - Radio Operator in B for Bertie
1943	The Shipbuilders	Young Naval Officer from HMS Milano
1945	Give Me the Stars	Jack Ross
1945	The Wicked Lady	Ned Cotterill
1945	The Rake's Progress	Bateson	Uncredited
1946	Beware of Pity	Lt. Joszi Molnar
1947	Nicholas Nickleby	Frank Cheeryble
1947	Holiday Camp	Michael Halliday
1948	This Was a Woman	Terry Russell
1949	The Small Back Room	Joe
1949	Dark Secret	Chris Merryman
1949	Miss Pilgrim's Progress	Vicar
1949	Blue Scar	Tom Thomas
1953	Deadly Nightshade	Matthews / Barlow
1955	Three Cases of Murder	George	(segment "You Killed Elizabeth")
1956	The Shield of Faith
1960	The Trials of Oscar Wilde	Robbie Ross
1961	Ticket to Paradise	Jack Watson
1962	Serena	Howard Rogers
1963	On the Run	Frank Stewart

Selected theatre work

• Macbeth (1942) directed by John Gielgud at the Piccadilly Theatre (as Malcolm)[8]
• Flare Path (1942) Original production at the Apollo Theatre, (as Flight Lieutenant Teddy Graham)[9]
• The Hasty Heart (1945) Original production at the Aldwych Theatre (as Lachlen)[10]
• Dial M for Murder (1952) Original West End production at the Westminster Theatre (as Tony Wendice)[11]
• Albertine by Moonlight (1956) at the Westminster Theatre (as Mac)[12]

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 – 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 – via Google Books.
10. Wearing, J. P. (22 August 2014). "The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel". Rowman & Littlefield – 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 – via Google Books.

External links

• Emrys Jones on IMDb