David Jones (director)

English stage, television, and film director David JonesBornDavid Hugh Jones(1934-02-19)19 February 1934Poole, Dorset, England, United KingdomDied19 September 2008(2008-09-19) (aged 74)Rockport, Maine, United StatesEducationChrist's College, Cambridge Yale School of DramaOccupationsFilm director, television director, theatre directorSpouse(s)Sheila AllenJoyce TennesonChildrenJesse and Joe David Hugh Jones (19 February 1934 – 19 September 2008) was an English stage, television and film director. Life and career Jones was born in Poole, Dorset, the son of John David Jones and his wife Gwendolen Agnes Langworthy (Ricketts), and was educated at Taunton School and Christ's College, Cambridge. Originally a television director, he first worked for BBC producer Huw Wheldon working on the Monitor arts television series from 1958 to 1964. His first London stage production was a triple-bill of T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, W. B. Yeats's Purgatory and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at the Mermaid Theatre in 1961. He directed his first production for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Arts Theatre in 1962, Boris Vian's The Empire Builder, and two years later accepted the administrati