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Simon Jones Biography (1950-)

Born July 27, 1950, in Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England; married Nancy Lewis, 1983; children: Timothy. Addresses: Agent: Innovative Artists New York Talent, 141 Fifth Ave., 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10010-7105.

Nationality

British

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor

Birth Details

July 27, 1950

Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• The Cocktail Party, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1997
• Barnabas Goche, The Herbal Bed, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1998
• Perry Lascoe, Waiting in the Wings, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 1999-2000
• First Lady (staged reading), The Actors Company Theatre, 2000
• Sherlock Holmes, Baker Street, York Theatre Company, Theatre at St. Peter's, 2001
• James, Passion Play, Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, 2001
• Made Broadway debut in The Real Thing; appeared in Anything Goes (concert), Manchester, England; Betting on Bertie (concert), Promenade Theatre; Call Me Madam (concert), City Center Encores!; Darling of the Day (concert), York Theatre; The Gay Divorce, Theatre at Carnegie Hall, New York City; Hapgood, Los Angeles production; and My Fair Lady, Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit, and Paper Mill Playhouse; appeared in Broadway productions of The Benefactors, Getting Married, Hamlet (in the title role), Private Lives, The RealInspector Hound, Ring 'round the Moon, The School for Scandal, and You Never Can Tell; and appeared in off-Broadway productions of Privates on Parade, The Quick-Change Room, Terra Nova, Woman in Mind, and You Never Can Tell.
• Film Appearances
• Joachim, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Charisma Films, 1980
• Sergeant Eric Young-Love, Privates on Parade, 1982, then Orion Classics, 1984
• Henderson, Giro City (also known as And Nothing but the Truth), Castle Hill, 1982
• Jeremy Portland-Smythe, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Universal, 1983
• Arrest official, Brazil, Universal, 1985
• Toby Prooth, Club Paradise, Warner Bros., 1986
• Party guest, Green Card, Buena Vista, 1990
• Anderson, American Friends, Castle Hill, 1991
• Himself and Arthur Dent, The Making of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, BBC, 1993
• Albert, For Love or Money, Universal, 1993
• Shellhammer, Miracle on 34th Street, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1994
• Zoologist, Twelve Monkeys, Universal, 1995
• Harry Sloan, The Devil's Own, Columbia, 1997
• Removal man, Guru in Seven, 1997
• Mission of Death, 1999
• Television Appearances
• Series
• The News Is the News, NBC, 1983
• Eric, Sunday Premiere: Claws, BBC, 1987
• Norman Asher, Tattingers (also known as Nick & Hillary), NBC, 1989
• Guy Armitage, One Life to Live, ABC, 1997
• Miniseries
• Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, BBC, 1981
• "Bridey" Brideshead, Brideshead Revisited, PBS, 1982
• Ambrose Serle, Liberty! The American Revolution, PBS, 1997
• Paramour, 1999
• Episodic
• Juan, "The Blitz," Rock Follies, ITV (England), 1976
• Calvin, "Two Harts Are Better Than One," Hart to Hart, ABC, 1983
• Sir Walter Raleigh, "Potato," Blackadder II, BBC, 1986
• Barnaby Friar, "Witness for the Defense," Murder, She Wrote, CBS,1987
• Arthur Dent, "Douglas Adams," The South Bank Show, ITV, 1992
• Winston Murdoch, "The Fine Art of Murder," The Cosby Mysteries, NBC, 1994
• Ted E. Peck, "Valentino Speaks!" Remember WENN, American Movie Classics, 1996
• Shaw, "Samurai Wind," CI5: The New Professionals, 1999
• Judge Mason Kessler, "The Bill of Wrongs," Oz, HBO, 2000
• Darien Marshall, "Folly," Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NBC, 2001
• Appeared as Dr. Miles Rangel in an episode of Newhart, CBS.
• Radio Appearances
• Host of Talk of New York, BBC-4.
• Internet Appearances
• Participated in the Internet presentations "Alice in Wonderland" and "TheHistory of the Devil," both Seeing Ear Theatre.