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Simon Jones was born on 27 July, 1950 in Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England, is a British actor. Discover Simon Jones's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation Actor
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 27 July, 1950
Birthday 27 July
Birthplace Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1934

His films have included Club Paradise, Privates on Parade, Miracle on 34th Street and The Devil's Own.

Jones studied at King's College, Taunton, before going up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights and met Douglas Adams.

This led to Jones being cast in Out of the Trees and later The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

1950

Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) is an English actor.

1978

He portrayed Arthur Dent, protagonist of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on radio in 1978 and again on television in 1981.

The latter project, a radio broadcast from 1978, would be the first of Jones's several portrayals of Arthur Dent; Adams claimed to Jones that he wrote the part of Dent with him in mind.

In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Jones had a minor role as one of the guests at the dinner party which is interrupted by the Grim Reaper.

He has also appeared in some of the solo film projects of the members of Monty Python: Privates on Parade (with John Cleese) American Friends (with Michael Palin), and Brazil and 12 Monkeys (both directed by Terry Gilliam).

1985

Jones has appeared in many Broadway plays, including The Real Thing (1985, as Max), Benefactors (1985, as Colin), Getting Married (1991, as Reginald Bridgenorth), Private Lives (1992, as Elyot Chase), The Real Inspector Hound (as Moon) and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (as Hamlet - which played together in 1992), The School for Scandal (1995, as Joseph Surface), Ring Round the Moon (1999, as Romainville) and Waiting in the Wings (1999, as Perry Lascoe).

1990

Off-Broadway he has a long list of credits, and was nominated for the 1990 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Privates on Parade.

1994

He also played the role of Donald Shellhammer in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), appeared in Brideshead Revisited as Lord Brideshead, and as King George V in the film Downton Abbey.

Jones appeared in various television series, including Brideshead Revisited (in which he played the Earl of Brideshead, or 'Bridey', heir to the Marquess of Marchmain), and the second series of Blackadder (playing Sir Walter Raleigh).

2003

In 2003, Jones reprised his role as Arthur Dent in a new radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

In the same year he was involved in the filming of the film version of the first novel, making a brief cameo appearance in the role of the holographic Magrathean answering machine/automated defence system.

2005

Jones also appeared in the film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) in a cameo role.

2007

In regional theatre at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Jones starred as Christopher Gore in the American premier of Brian Friel's The Home Place in late 2007; he returned there in late 2008 to portray C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands.

2009

In 2009, Jones appeared in Blithe Spirit, as Dr. Bradman, supported by Angela Lansbury and Rupert Everett; and in 2018 he portrayed John Rich, in Farinelli and the King starring Mark Rylance, from January through March.

In 2009, Jones was heard as master detective Sexton Blake on BBC Radio 2 in the six-part series, The Adventures of Sexton Blake!.

In addition to his work as an actor, Jones is also a co-artistic director at New York Off-Broadway company the Actors' Company Theatre (TACT), where he played the role of Jack in the play Home by David Storey.

This ran from 8 December 2009 to 2 January 2010.

2010

In 2010, Jones joined in the Irish Repertory Theatre's production of A Child's Christmas in Wales, a concert version of the Dylan Thomas work.

2011

In 2011, Jones played Piero Soderini in Divine Rivalry — a new play by Michael Kramer, directed by Michael Wilson, and produced by the Shubert Organisation – at the Hartford Stage Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut.

Jones had played this part in several previous readings of the play.

Later in the year, he was in a new musical version of Death Takes a Holiday, from the book by Tom Meehan and Peter Stone, with music by Maury Yeston; it.

It ran in New York City, at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, from 7 July to 4 September.

A CD was released shortly afterwards.

From there, Jones returned to London, where he attended the opening night of No Naughty Bits, at the Hampstead Theatre on 13 September.

The play, by Steve Thompson, was the story of Jones's wife, Nancy Lewis, and the Monty Python team's lawsuit against ABC-TV in America.

2012

In 2012 Jones played David Bliss, husband of Harriet Harris, in Hay Fever at the Guthrie Theatre, directed by Jones' friend Chris Luscombe.

Jones then appeared (in the role of Sir Francis Beekman), with Megan Hilty starring in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at ENCORES!

concert series at City Center in New York City, which also resulted in CD.

Later in the year, he went to the UK, where he starred in a national stage tour of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Live!

2013

In the summer of 2013, Jones went to East Hampton, New York, where Tony Walton directed him in a production of Tonight at 8:30, featuring three of Noël Coward's short plays.

Blythe Danner was the co-star, and they performed "Hands Across the Sea", "Family Album" and "Red Peppers".

This was followed by another UK stage tour of ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Live!

2014

The tour of Blithe Spirit, starring Angela Lansbury, then went to London's West End in early 2014.

This was accompanied by an appearance at a special cabaret (organised by co-star Janie Dee) at the Cafe de Paris, where he sang "Mad Dogs and Englishmen".

2015

In 2015 he played the Man in Chair in Drowsy Chaperone at Cape Playhouse in Massachusetts, and immediately afterwards went to Sag Harbor to play Major Bouvier and Norman Vincent Peale in Grey Gardens with Rachel York and Betty Buckley, again directed by Michael Wilson; this same production went to Los Angeles in 2016 at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Jones is also a voice actor and audiobook narrator, with more than 70 titles to his credit.

Among them are: