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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 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 theater 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, Rascal, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dirty Dingus Magee, Support Your Local Gunfighter, 9 to 5 and Arachnophobia.On television, Jones' best remembered role was as the title character's father-in-law in the 1970s CBS sitcom Phyllis.Jones portrayed Jed McCoy on a 1961 episode of the ABC sitcom, The Real McCoys, starring Walter Brennan, with fellow guest stars Pat Buttram and Jane Darwell as Cousin Carl and "Grandma McCoy", respectively. In the story line, the California McCoys return to West Virginia for Grandmother McCoy's 100th birthday.He had a regular role on the ABC drama Channing, with Jason Evers.Jones also appeared on Appointment with Adventure, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Eleventh Hour, Night Gallery, Emergency!, The Mod Squad, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Thriller, Adam 12, Father Knows Best, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Untouchables, and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. He played Dr. Smith's cousin in a 1966 episode of CBS's Lost In Space, "Curse Of Cousin Smith", and alongside R.J. Hoferkamp in the 1968 made-for-television western movie Something for a Lonely Man. In 1967 he guest starred in the episode "A Time to Die" of the Sci-Fi TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea's 4th season. Starting in 1974, he guest starred three times on the TV show Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Jeffrey/Chester Dolenz. This character was a brilliant scientist who built lifelike robots, but although every plot was foiled he still managed to escape to fight another day.Jones died in Los Angeles, California, at age 86, from complications from injuries suffered in a fall at his home in Santa Monica.. }

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