Christopher Jones (actor)

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Christopher Jones (actually William Frank Jones , born August 18, 1941 in Jackson , Tennessee , † January 31, 2014 in Los Alamitos , California ) was an American actor who became known as a character actor .

Christopher Jones as Jesse James, 1965

Life

What is striking is a strong resemblance in appearance and style to James Dean . Jones comes from a background similar to Dean, but he was only interested in the art of drawing, which he learned at an art school. Jones' interest in films eventually led him to acting. He began to look at films from an acting perspective and took James Dean ( Beyond Eden ) and Elvis Presley ( gunpowder smoke and hot songs ) as models. After serving in the United States Army , Jones studied painting in New York and then attended an acting class.

Friends with Frank Corsaro , a friend of James Dean, Jones made his first appearance on Broadway on December 17, 1961, in Tennessee Williams ' The Night of the Iguana (directed by Corsaro, star actress: Shelley Winters ). Winters introduced Jones to Susan Strasberg , also an actress and daughter of Lee Strasberg . Jones then visited the Strasberg Drama Studio, finally asked for the hand of Susan Strasberg and married her in 1965 despite personal disputes between him and his father-in-law. In 1966 the couple had a daughter, Jennifer Robin Jones.

He moved to Hollywood and got the lead role in the ABC television series The Legend of Jesse James (produced by 20th Century Fox ), with 35 episodes in 1965 and 1966. He then took on the role of Strasberg's lover and husband in the film Chubasco . The couple divorced in 1968.

He played other roles in the films Wild in the Streets (1968), in the sex comedy Which side do you want to lie on, darling? (1968) and in the film War in the Mirror (1969).

In the 1970 film Ryan's Daughter he played a British officer who, suffering from a war trauma from the First World War, was transferred to a Northern Irish garrison and had a relationship with the wife of the village teacher. After the initially bad criticism of this film and its performance in it, he returned to California and started painting again. He returned to film in 1996 for the film Bullet Point .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1965–1966: The Legend of Jesse James (TV series)
  • 1966: Chubasco (Chubasco)
  • 1968: Wild in the Streets
  • 1968: Which side do you want to lie on, darling? (Three in the Attic)
  • 1969: War in the mirror (The Looking Glass War)
  • 1969: Brief Season
  • 1970: Ryan's Daughter (Ryan's Daughter)
  • 1996: Bullet Point (Mad Dog Time)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ryan's Daughter Star Christopher Jones Dies at 72
  2. ↑ Christopher Jones . The New York Times. Retrieved August 31, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, William Frank (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Jackson (Tennessee) , Tennessee , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2014
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States