Awards & Winners

Henry Jones

Date of Birth 01-August-1912
Place of Birth Philadelphia
(Pennsylvania, United States of America, Area code 215, Area code 267, Area codes 215 and 267)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Henry Burk Jones, Henry Burk Jones
Profession Actor
Henry Burk Jones was an American actor of stage, film and television. Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Helen 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, 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.

Awards by Henry Jones

Check all the awards nominated and won by Henry Jones.

1958


Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Drama Performance
Honored for : Sunrise At Campobello
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
Honored for : Sunrise At Campobello

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Drama Performance Sunrise At Campobello
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play Sunrise At Campobello