James Parks Jones (1890 – January 11, 1950) was an actor in many silent films in the United States. His roles included many leading and supporting roles over more than a decade.
He was born in Cincinnati.
Jones married
Myrtle Gonzalez
Myrtle Gonzalez (September 28, 1891 – October 22, 1918) was an American actress. She starred in at least 78 silent era motion pictures from 1913 to 1917, of which 66 were one and two-reel shorts. She is regarded as a movie star.[The Arab (1915 film)
''The Arab'' is a 1915 American silent adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Edgar Selwyn wrote and starred in the Broadway play version of the story in 1911, and this film is based on that play. Selwyn reprises his role from his play. ...]
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Young Romance (1915 film)
''Young Romance'' is a 1915 American silent romance film directed and produced by George Melford. The film is based on the play of the same name by William C. deMille who also wrote the screenplay. Edith Taliaferro, who made only three films in ...
(1915)
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' (1916)
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*'']Alien Souls
''Alien Souls'' is a lost 1916 silent film feature directed by Frank Reicher and starring Sessue Hayakawa, his real-life wife Tsuru Aoki and Earle Foxe.
Cast
*Sessue Hayakawa - Sakata
*Tsuru Aoki - Yuri Chan
*Earle Foxe - Aleck Lindsay
*Grace Ben ...
'' (1916)
*'' The Lonesome Chap'' (1917)
*'' The Evil Eye (1917)
*''Such a Little Pirate
''Such a Little Pirate'' is a lost 1918 American silent Pirate adventure film directed by George Melford and starring Lila Lee as a young sea-going heroine and Theodore Roberts as her grandfather. It was produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky.
...
'' (1918)
*''Sandy (1918 film)
''Sandy'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by George Melford, and written by Alice Hegan Rice and Edith Kennedy. The film stars Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, James Neill, Edythe Chapman, Julia Faye, and George Beranger. The film was ...
'' (1918)
*''The Whispering Chorus
''The Whispering Chorus'' is a 1918 American silent psychological drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is the first and earliest film was considered a psychological drama.
Plot
John Tremble (Hatton), an impoverished cashier in a cont ...
'' (1918)
*''Till I Come Back to You
''Till I Come Back to You'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. This film is preserved in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Yvonne (Vidor), the wife of German ...
'' (1918)
*''Old Wives for New
''Old Wives for New'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Prints of the film survive at the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, disgusted by ...
'' (1918)
*''A Dog's Life
''A Dog's Life'' is a 1918 American Comedy short silent film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films.
Chaplin plays opposite an animal as "co-star". "Scraps" (the dog) was the ...
'' (1918), a Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is consider ...
film
*''Shoulder Arms
''Shoulder Arms'' is Charlie Chaplin's second film for First National Pictures. Released in 1918, it is a silent comedy film set in France during World War I, the first of three films he made on the subject of war. It co-starred Edna Purviance ...
'' (1918)
*''The Intrusion of Isabel
''The Intrusion of Isabel'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Mary Miles Minter, J. Parks Jones, Allan Forrest, and Lucretia Harris. As with many of Minter's features, it is thought to be a lost film.
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'' (1919)
*'' Sunnside'' (1919), a Chaplin film
*''Deliverance
''Deliverance'' is a 1972 American survival thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. The screenplay was adapted ...
'' (1919)
*'' The Black Gate'' (1919)
*''Faith
Faith, derived from Latin ''fides'' and Old French ''feid'', is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or In the context of religion, one can define faith as "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion".
Religious people often ...
'' (1920)[
*'' Perils of Paul or the Duchess at Bay'', also known as ]Paul's Peril
Paul's walk in Elizabethan and early Stuart London was the name given to the central nave of Old St Paul's Cathedral, where people walked up and down in search of the latest news. At the time, St. Paul's was the centre of the London grapevine ...
, (1920)
*'' The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' (1920)The Old Nest
''The Old Nest'' is a 1921 American drama silent black and white film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Helene Chadwick. It was awarded for the National High School Students' Poll for Best Picture They Had Ever Seen. It is based on the s ...
'' (1921)
*'' Hawk of the Hills'' (1927), a serial
*''Salvation Jane (film)
''Salvation Jane'' is a 1927 American crime film directed by Phil Rosen and written by Doris Schroeder. The film stars Viola Dana, J. Parks Jones, Fay Holderness and Erville Alderson. The film was released on March 1, 1927, by Film Booking Off ...
'' (1927)
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1890 births
1950 deaths
American male silent film actors
20th-century American male actors
Actors from Cincinnati
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