Griffith Jones(1909-2007)
- Actor
Griffith Jones was born on 19 November 1909 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Miranda (1948), Wife of General Ling (1937) and The Face Behind the Scar (1937). He was married to Robin Isaac. He died on 30 January 2007 in London, England, UK.
Actor
- Alternative name
- Griffiths Jones
- Height
- 6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Born
- Died
- January 30, 2007
- London, England, UK(undisclosed)
- Spouse
- Robin Isaac1932 - 1985 (her death, 2 children)
- Children
- Other worksTheatre credits include: his debut in 1930 while still at RADA (Achmed in Carpet Slippers at the Embassy Theatre). Before and after the war-he served in the army-there were few years when he was absent from the stage. Two Noël Coward premieres enliven a list dominated by forgotten plays: Nuitane in Aloma (Q Theatre, 1931); Leiba in Lady in Waiting (Embassy, 1931); the Commentator in Vile Bodies (Vaudeville, 1932); Michael O'Dea in Ourselves Alone (Globe, 1932); Montague in Josephine Tey's Richard of Bordeaux (New, 1932); Arnold in Philomel (Ambassadors, 1932); Weyland in The Rats of Norway (Playhouse, 1933); Hensch in The Ace (Lyric, 1933); Sanger in Escape Me Never (Apollo, 1933, New York, 1935); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Regent's Park, 1934); Clive in After October (Arts and Criterion, 1936); Torday in Farewell Performance (Lyric, 1936); Arne in Women of Property (Queen's, 1937); Will in Gertie Maude (St Martin's, 1937); Nigel in Noël Coward's Operette (His Majesty's, 1938); Marco Polo in Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions (Westminster, 1938); Carrington in Behold the Bride (Shaftesbury, 1939); Dick in Believe It or Not (New, 1940); Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan (Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1945-47); Clive in A Man About a Dog (Prince's, 1949); Shavings, an evening of one-act plays by Bernard Shaw (St Martin's, 1951); the Earl of Dawlish in The Moonraker (Saville, 1952); the Marquess of Heronden in Coward's Quadrille (Phoenix, 1952); Tweedledum/Red Knight in Alice Through the Looking Glass (Tour, 1953, Prince's, 1954); Denver in The Love Machine (Tour, 1954); Robert in Dead On Nine (Westminster, 1955); the revue Blueprint (Irving, 1955); Archie Rice in The Entertainer (Tour, 1958); Brooks in Innocent as Hell (Lyric Hammersmith, 1960); The Count in The Cavern (Globe, 1966); Sir Colenso Ridgeon in The Doctor's Dilemma (Comedy, 1966); Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew (Nottingham Playhouse, 1974); and Sir Peter Teazle in School for Scandal (Sheffield Crucible, 1974).
- Publicity listings
- TriviaRetired at the age of 90, and lived at home for his last seven years with his daughter Gemma and Hatty, his cat. (His wife Robin predeceased him.).
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