Peter David Penry Jones (20 May 1938 – 11 March 2009) was a
Welsh
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actor
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, born in
Cardiff
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.
Career
Jones's
television
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credits include: ''
Colditz
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'', ''
The Professionals
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To the Manor Born
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“Connections in High Places”,'' ''
Bergerac'', ''
Howards' Way
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'', ''
Kavanagh QC
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Midsomer Murders
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“The Electric Vendetta”''
He also worked with
Laurence Olivier
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at the
National Theatre.
Personal life
The son of the Rev. David Penry Jones, a Presbyterian minister in South Wales, in September 1967 in
Westminster
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Jones married the actress
Angela Thorne
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, and they had two sons, actors
Laurence
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and
Rupert.
Jones died of bowel cancer in 2009.
Filmography and television
* 1969 - Dance of Death - Lieutenant - Film
* 1972 - Love Story - Martin - TV Series, Episode: Third Party
* 1972-1973 - Colditz - P.O. Peter Muir - TV Series (10 episodes)
* 1973 - Hunter's Walk - Doctor - TV Series, Episode: Disturbance
* 1973 - Nobody is Norman Wisdom - Morse - TV Series
* 1974 - General Hospital - Tony Wainwright - TV Series
* 1974 - Happy Ever After - Under Manager - TV Series, Episode: The Hotel
* 1974 - Father Brown - John Godfrey - TV Series, Episode: The Curse of the Golden Cross
* 1974 - Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill - Francis Nollis - TV Mini-Series, Episode: Jennie Jerome
* 1975 - Edward the 7th - Augustus Paget - TV Mini Series, Episode: Alix
* 1976 - Victorian Scandals - Lord Hubert de Burgh - TV Series, Episode: Skittles
* 1977 - The Professionals - Cummings - TV Series, Episode: Private Madness, Public Danger
* 1979 - Dick Barton: Special Agent - Scientist - TV Series
* 1981 - To the Manor Born - Gayforth - TV Series, Episodes: Back to the Manor, Connections in High Places
* 1982 - Solo - Mr. Baines - TV Series
* 1983 - Live from Pebble Mill - Father - TV Series, Episode: Night Kids
* 1984 - Bergerac - Doctor - TV Series, Episode: A Cry in the Night
* 1986 - Screen Two - Anthony Evans - TV Series, Episode: The Silent Twins
* 1986 - Dramarama - Bray - TV Series,Episode: Just a Game
* 1987 - Born of Fire - The Manager
* 1986-1987 - Strike it Rich! - Mark Ashe/Dr. Hewlett - TV Series
* 1987 - Superman IV:The Quest for Peace - Episode: Tourist at Great Wall of China #2
* 1985-1987 - Howard's Way - Colin Linsdale - TV Series, 10 episodes
* 1988 - Double First - Peter - TV Series, 2 episodes
* 1988-1990 - The Ruth Rendell Mysteries - Solicitor/Mr. Browning - TV Series
* 1991 - Van der Valk - Markheim - TV Series, Episode: A Sudden Silence
* 1992 - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Superintendent Carter - TV Series, Episode: The ABC Murders
* 1992 - The Good Guys - Oliver Thornton - TV Series, Episode: Verschwinden
* 1993 - Genghis Cohn
* 1995 - Bliss - Jeffrey Snowden - TV Movie
* 1996 - The Legacy of Reginald Perrin - Tim Ripley - TV Series
* 1996 - The Fragile Heart - Surgeon - TV Series, 3 episodes
* 2000 - Longitude - Surgeon - TV Movie
* 2001 - Kavanagh QC - Andrew Cardigan QC - TV Series, Episodes: The End of Law
* 2001 - Midsomer Murders - Peter, Marquis of Ross, TV Series, Episode: The Electric Vendetta
* 2001 - Swallow - Sir Terence - TV Series
* 2002 - A Prescription for Murder - Dr. John Rutherford - TV Movie
* 2004 - The Brief - Patrick Richards QC - TV Series, Episode: The Road to Hell
* 2004 - Julian Fellows Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder - Sir William Gull - TV Series, Episode: The Case of Charles Bravo
* 2005 - Ian Fleming: Bondmaker - Admiral Godfrey - TV Movie
* 2006 - Bombshell - General Kilshaw - TV Series
Notes
External links
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1938 births
2009 deaths
Male actors from Cardiff
Welsh male stage actors
Welsh male television actors
20th-century Welsh male actors
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