Billy Frank Jones (known professionally as Christopher) was born on August 18 1941 in Jackson, Tennessee, into straitened circumstances. Our.

Christopher Jones, born August 18 1941, died January 31 2014. Television roles included the cult classic Wild in the Streets (1968) and the titular outlaw in The Legend of Jesse James (1965-66). First, he struggled to cope with his mother’s mental breakdown and early death in a Tennessee asylum. “I tried to jiggle her,” admitted Jones, “but I wasn’t sophisticated enough.” One of his lovers was the English starlet Susan George who, he recalled “came up to my apartment when I was staying in London and the next day moved her toothbrush in, so I had to say: 'No way’”. [9] Hussey says that she had dated Jones in the late 1960s, but ended the relationship because he was physically abusive toward her. Christopher Jones died in early March 1622 at about age 52 after coming back from a voyage to France. The pair’s dalliance took place in 1969 in Rome, where Jones was filming and Sharon Tate was visiting. “I can remember her picking me up once,” recalled Jones, “but I can’t remember what she looked like.” He was passed between relatives and a boys’ home and frequently separated from his brother. This week on The Deadline, Harry de Quetteville, Christopher Howse and Katy Balls talk about the life and death of Mark Shand, brother of the Duchess of Cornwall. Later, Lean dubbed his voice (Jones's voice was also dubbed in The Looking Glass War), causing the actor a bad reputation (Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean). As friends and families of the deceased are mourning the passing of their loved and cherished Christopher Jones. And racing correspondent Marcus Armytage reflects on the lives of Julian Wilson and Peter Scott-Dunn. Councillor Paul James died while out on a bike ride in April last year, When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Jones also was involved in a car crash,[6] not knowing he had been drugged. In July 2018, actress Olivia Hussey claimed that she was raped by Jones in the house Roman Polanski had shared with his wife Sharon Tate, weeks after Tate's death. Jones was offered the part of Zed in Pulp Fiction (1994) by director Quentin Tarantino, but he turned it down. His family lived above the grocery store where his father was a clerk. Celebrity, however, brought with it the attentions of some of the world’s most beautiful actresses, including Pia Degermark and Olivia Hussey. On the evening of August 9 1969, while Jones was filming in Ireland, members of Charles Manson’s cult broke into Sharon Tate’s home in Los Angeles and stabbed her to death. St Mary The Virginin Rotherhithe records his burial as 5 March in their churchyard. Christopher Jones was an actor considered 'the next James Dean’ who quit Hollywood after his life was repeatedly touched by tragedy.

A jury acquitted Christopher Allan Jones of the charge of causing Paul James' death by careless driving after a four-day trial at Swansea Crown Court. Paramedics rushed to his aid but Mr James could not be saved. After Ryan’s Daughter he gave up acting – “I realised I hated it” – and lived off the proceeds of his film career, taking up painting and sculpture.

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He is survived by his partner, Paula McKenna, and seven children. But Mr Jones insisted during evidence he had just "tenths of a second" to brake and could not have avoided the fatal collision. The two men had a difficult relationship; this was the experience of many actors who worked with Lean. The director and producers never informed him of the drugging. [1] Jones married Susan in 1965; the couple divorced in 1968. She was pregnant with Polanski’s baby at the time and Jones was involved with Pia Degermark.