Biography

Don Jones was born in Philadelphia and raised on a small Pennsylvania farm. He attended a country school with a total enrollment of about a hundred--two grades to a room and all 12 grades under on roof.

After a stint in the Army and a short career as a professional boxer, the movie bug bit him and he moved to California. Doing anything to make a living, he started doing stunts and tried acting. However, there were now mouths to feed and acting wasn't paying the bills, so he decided to move behind the camera. Starting in sound, he soon became interested in camera, as well as writing and directing low budget features including The Forest and Schoolgirls in Chains. He took work wherever he could find it, including the Discovery channel, commercials, educationals, German television--anything to make a living. He traveled the world in the process.

Now pretty much retired and living in Los Angeles, he leaves behind a half dozen low-budget movies and his novel, "Alma's Daughter," a generational, paranormal story about a teenage poltergeist.
- IMDb mini biography by: Joe O'Connell

Donald Evan Jones passed away in the San Fernando Valley on August 10, at the age of 83. He grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, but spent his adult life in Los Angeles where he worked in the Motion Picture Industry.

As a young man, Don was a professional boxer, fighting under the name Irish Frankie Conway. He had 21 bouts before hanging it up to go into the film business. After a brief career as a stuntman, he taught himself how to load film, and spent decades working as a gaffer and cameraman. Eventually he began writing and directing his own films. His horror film, The Forest, is considered a cult classic.

In recent years, Don worked exclusively as a cameraman and sound recorder for various filmmakers in the Los Angeles area. As such, he traveled much of the world including Europe, Asia, and Africa. During his spare time, he earned a pilots license, taught himself to play the piano, and wrote a novel entitled Alma and the Poltergeist.

He is survived by his daughter Coeli and twin grandsons, and will be much missed by his many friends and fans.
- IMDb mini biography by: Gary Kent (written as Don's obituary)

Appears as himself in the documentary film Danger God (2018).