Trivia

Father of Toby Jones (actor), Rupert Jones (director), and Casper Jones (actor).

He and Dudley Sutton are the only actors to appear in both the ITV cult classic series My Partner the Ghost (1969) and its BBC remake Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000).

Appeared in three David Lynch movies: The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984) and Wild at Heart (1990).

Played Fortunato in the 1995 version of The Cask of Amontillado (1995). His son, actor Toby Jones, played the antagonist role of Montresor in the 2014 production The Cask of Amontillado (2014).

Opened the New Victoria Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, near Stoke-on-Trent where he was born.

He was the son of Ida Elizabeth (Goodwin), a clerk and pub pianist, and Charles Edward Jones, a porcelain thrower. Before becoming an actor, Jones had a career similar to that of his father, working in a ceramics factory as a laboratory assistant, a job at which he was very unhappy, later telling interviewers that it came close to making him clinically insane.

An Associate Member of RADA, Jones trained at Rose Bruford Drama School, Sidcup, Kent, not becoming a professional actor until his 30s.

Among the actors thought suitable for the role of Solon in Doctor Who: Brain of Morbius. Philip Madoc was cast instead.

Considered for the major guest roles of Dastari and Shockeye in Doctor Who: The Two Doctors.

Considered for the cameo role of Peter Walmsley in Doctor Who: Battlefield.

He appeared in two different productions of Stella Gibbons' novel Cold Comfort Farm. In Cold Comfort Farm (1968) he played Urk Starkadder, and in Cold Comfort Farm (1995) he played Adam Lambsbreath.

Considered for roles of Dr. Hans Fallada, Dr. Armstrong, Dr. Bukovsky and Sir Percy Heseltine in Lifeforce (1985).