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Name	Simon Jones
First Name	Simon
Last Name	Jones
Occupation	Actor
Birthday	July 27
Birth Year	1950
Place of Birth	Charlton
Home Town	England
Birth Country	United Kingdom
Birth Sign	Leo
Full/Birth Name
Father	Not Available
Mother	Not Available
Siblings	Not Available
Spouse	Nancy Lewis
Children(s)	Tim Jones

Simon Jones Biography

Simon Jones is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on July 27, 1950 in Charlton, England, United Kingdom.

Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) is an English actor. 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. Jones also featured in the film The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) in a cameo role. 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 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. The latter project, a 1978 radio broadcast, would be the first of Jones’ several portrayals of Arthur Dent; Adams claimed to Jones that he wrote the part of Dent with Jones in mind. In Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, Jones had a minor role as one of the guests at the dinner party. He has also appeared in some of the solo film projects of the members of Monty Python: American Friends, Brazil and 12 Monkeys.

Jones appeared in various TV 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). His films have included Club Paradise, Privates on Parade, Miracle on 34th Street and The Devil’s Own.

Simon Jones Net Worth

Simon is one of the richest Celebrity from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Simon Jones's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Net Worth	$5 Million
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	Celebrity
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House	Living in own house.

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. In 2015 he played the Man in Chair in Drowsy Chaperone at Cape Playhouse, MA, and immediately afterwards went to Sag Harbor to be 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.

He recovered enough to join in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, a concert version of the Dylan Thomas work. This ran from 8 December 2009 to 2 January 2010.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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

Who is Simon Jones Dating?

According to our records, Simon Jones married to Nancy Lewis . As of January 13, 2024, Simon Jones’s is not dating anyone.

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

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Jones has appeared in many Broadway plays, including The Real Thing, as Max (1985), Benefactors, as Colin (1985), Getting Married, as Reginald Bridgenorth (1991), Private Lives, as Elyot Chase (1992), The Real Inspector Hound, as Moon, and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, as Hamlet, which played together in (1992), The School for Scandal, as Joseph Surface (1995), Ring Round the Moon, as Romainville (1999) and Waiting in the Wings, as Perry Lascoe (1999). In 2009 he appeared in Blithe Spirit, as Dr. Bradman, with Angela Lansbury and Rupert Everett and in 2018 he portrayed John Rich, in Farinelli and the King starring Mark Rylance, from January through March. 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.

Jones and his son Tim were hit by a car on 8 October 2010; though they suffered only bruises, he had to withdraw from the Actors’ Company Theatre’s production of Václav Havel’s Memorandum.

Facts & Trivia

Simon Ranked on the list of most popular Celebrity. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Simon Jones celebrates birthday on July 27 of every year.

2011 took him to Hartford, Connecticut – the Hartford Stage Theatre – where he played Piero Soderini in Divine Rivalry — a new play by Michael Kramer, directed by Michael Wilson, and produced by the Shubert Organisation. Jones had played this part in several previous readings of the play, and was delighted to finally be in a real, full production. 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 ran in New York City, at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre, from 7 July to 4 September. A CD was released shortly afterwards.

Why did Simon Jones retire?

Jones, close to a first England recall last August for the tour of the West Indies thanks to a successful first summer at his new club, Worcestershire, in which he took 42 wickets at 18.02, was ruled out of yet another season last month because of a third serious knee injury.

What happened to Simon Jones cricketer?

However, on the first morning of the first Test at Brisbane Cricket Ground, having bowled seven overs and taken the wicket of Justin Langer, he suffered a severe injury, rupturing an anterior cruciate ligament while sliding to field a ball.

What was Simon Jones injury?

On the opening day of the 2002-03 series in Brisbane, England paceman Simon Jones slid for the ball on the Gabba outfield and ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee… Redemption came amid the glory of England’s historic 2005 win, when Jones took 18 wickets in four Tests.

Who played Arthur Dent in Hitchhiker's Guide?

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