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Actor Born: August 1, 1912 in Philadelphia, PA Death: May 17, 1999 in Santa Monica, CA Biography:Starting out in musicals and comedies, leather-lunged character actor "Henry Jones" had developed into a versatile dramatic actor by the 1950s, though he never abandoned his willingness to make people laugh. Jones scored his first cinematic bullseye when he re-created his Broadway role as the malevolent handyman Leroy in the 1956 cinemadaptation of "Maxwell Anderson"'s "The Bad Seed" (1956). Refusing to be typed, Jones followed this triumph with a brace of quietly comic roles in "Frank Tashlin"'s "The Girl Can't Help It" (1956) and "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter". He returned to Broadway in 1958, winning the Tony and New York Drama Critics' awards for his performance in "Sunrise at Campobello". Since that time, Jones has flourished in films, often making big impressions in the tiniest of roles: the coroner in "Vertigo" (1958), the bicycle salesman in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), the... Full Biography
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