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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.
Jones is remembered for his role as the handyman, Leroy Jessup, in the movie The Bad Seed despite having appeared in over 180 movies and television shows. He appeared in Vertigo in 1958 and on several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging, in the 1962 episode entitled "Hooray, Hooray, the Circus Is Coming to Town".
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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.
Jones is remembered for his role as the handyman, Leroy Jessup, in the movie The Bad Seed despite having appeared in over 180 movies and television shows. He appeared in Vertigo in 1958 and on several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging, in the 1962 episode entitled "Hooray, Hooray, the Circus Is Coming to Town". In the 1963-1964 season, Jones co-starred with Jason Evers (1922-2005) in ABC's 26-week drama series Channing, about life on a college campus. He appeared in the role of Fred Baker, the college dean. Channing ran opposite the second and concluding season of The Eleventh Hour.
Jones also played Cloris Leachman's father-in-law on the sitcom Phyllis (1975-1977). Years before appearing together on Phyllis, Jones and Leachman worked together in a 1972 episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery, You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore. He also appeared on NBC's Emergency!, in the episode "Show Biz," in which he played an aging rural doctor named "Dr. Alexander Knott--with a 'K.'" He also appeared as J. Hardy Hempstead, Orson Bean's guardian angel, in The Twilight Zone episode titled "Mr. Bevis."
He won Broadway's 1958 Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "Sunrise at Campobello."
Jones died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of eighty-six of complications from injuries suffered in a fall.
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