Ken Jones

AKA: Kenneth Jones

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1930-02-20

Liverpool, UK

Biography

Ken Jones was an English actor. After working as a signwriter and performing as an amateur, he trained at RADA and then joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. He died in Prescot, Merseyside from bowel cancer.

Crew Roles

Gulpin

Director

Gulpin

Writer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {57}

Stroud

1969-10-13 5.5

The File of the Golden Goose

U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a murderous gang of counterfeiters known as the Golden Goose. Although Peter is unsure about John's lo ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Dock Guard

1979-02-01 6.422

Murder by Decree

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, H ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Harry Naughton

1998-01-01 5.5

A Certain Justice

The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track record of winning her cases. She doesn't necessarily pro ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

1979-02-24 0

All Day on the Sands

Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Bernard Ives

2003-12-29 6

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional footage and interviews with the character's family, fri ...

Genre :Comedy

Mr. Budge

1967-04-15 0

I Am Osango

Spot-welder Aaron Toft assumes the identity of Aaron Osango - an ex-spot welder who has been sentenced to death and is in jail in an African state. ...

Genre :

Rickie

1970-10-13 0

Poor Mother

Nineteen-year-old Bambi is upset when her husband is late arriving to see their new-born child, especially when she discovers that the wine he has brought is not intended for her. ...

Genre :

1979-09-01 6

Yanks

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it c ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, War

Arthur

1965-11-17 5.4

The End of Arthur's Marriage

In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is hap ...

Genre :Music, TV Movie, Comedy, Drama

Joe Horrigan

1968-04-17 5

The Golden Vision

The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations. ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie, Drama

Labour Exchange Clerk

1971-12-01 6.3

Gumshoe

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

LFC Supporter

1984-04-13 2

Loose Connections

A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Robbo Robertson

1965-04-07 5

Three Clear Sundays

Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Freddie Grierson

1969-02-19 5

The Big Flame

After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Ives

1979-08-12 6.7

Porridge

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godf ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

JH Thomas

1998-02-12 6

Mosley

Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series tracing the turbulent political career and tempestuous private life of Oswald Mosley, leader of the Briti ...

Genre :Drama, History

Mr. Dicks

1971-03-28 7.2

Melody

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ronny

1985-09-11 6.5

No Surrender

It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash ...

Genre :Comedy

Messenger

1979-12-18 5.9

The Human Factor

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate. ...

Genre :Thriller

Gravedigger

1967-02-01 0

The Lump

The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Sam

1974-03-18 8.8

I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill

Returning home to her flat, Ann Rogers passes a stranger leaving the building. A few moments later she discovers her neighbor lying dead in the hallway, the latest victim of a serial killer. Ann could ...

Genre :Thriller, TV Movie

Mr Biles

1996-02-06 6.3

Jude

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daugh ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Mr. Norris

1981-01-04 5.9

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case. ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy, TV Movie

Man on Cliff

1986-05-06 5.6

Whoops Apocalypse

When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent ...

Genre :Comedy

Collier - uncredited non speaking extra

1961-10-24 0

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on ...

Genre :

Mr Howarth

1974-10-03 0

A First Class Friend

Martin, an ex-public school boy, takes a room above a greengrocer's shop and starts working in the shop. Despite Martin's diligent and successful efforts to save and improve the business, he constantl ...

Genre :

Mr Potter

1971-10-14 0

£60 Single, £100 Return

A play by Bill Lyons. Encouraged by his adventurous friend Des, Pete wants to holiday in India. But can he convince his fretful mother, and what does Des' family think anyway? ...

Genre :

Ticket Man at Anfield (voice) (uncredited)

1976-01-29 0

Gulpin

A girl's obsession with the boys' game of football makes her so misunderstood. ...

Genre :

Mr. Belling

1991-11-14 6.8

Murder Most Horrid

A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with mu ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime, Mystery

1993-11-18 7.2

Goodnight Sweetheart

Gary Sparrow is an ordinary bloke in 1990s Britain, married to the ambitious Yvonne and working as a TV repairman. Then his whole world changes when he stumbles upon a portal to WWII-era London and be ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

2001-09-24 7.7

Murphy's Law

Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy is a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment, he is given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. Murphy ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1974-07-08 4.5

The Squirrels

The Squirrels is a British television sitcom, written by Eric Chappell, who went on to create the Yorkshire Television sitcoms Rising Damp and Only When I Laugh. It ran for 3 series and 28 episodes an ...

Genre :Comedy

1974-09-13 6.2

Police Woman

Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

1959-09-16 3.7

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1971-07-10 5.5

The Guardians

The Guardians is a television drama series of 13x60 minute episodes made by London Weekend Television and broadcast in the UK on the ITV network between July 10, 1971 and October 2, 1971. The opening ...

Genre :

1982-02-15 0

Dead Ernest

Dead Ernest was a 1982 UK TV supernatural sitcom set in heaven starring Andrew Sachs in the role of Ernest Springer. It was broadcast on ITV from 15th February 1982 and was the first sitcom made by th ...

Genre :

Jotham

1977-03-27 7.8

Jesus of Nazareth

Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels. ...

Genre :Drama

1965-10-04 0

United!

United! was a British television series which was produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and was broadcast twice-weekly on BBC1. The series followed the fortunes of a fictional second division fo ...

Genre :Drama

Ives

1974-09-05 8.1

Porridge

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La ...

Genre :Comedy

Clifford Basket

1971-05-10 0

The Last Of The Baskets

Created by John Stevenson, the programme was about a factory worker Clifford Basket (played by Ken Jones) who inherited a title of the Earl of Clogborough, the remaining estate of which is a rundown m ...

Genre :Comedy

1983-10-19 0

Behind The Bike Sheds

Genre :

1964-12-12 0

Six

Genre :Drama

Billy Clarkson

1975-03-19 5.5

The Wackers

Comedy series set in Liverpool about an half-protestant/half-catholic family. ...

Genre :Comedy

1968-09-25 0

Her Majesty's Pleasure

Genre :Comedy

1980-04-17 0

The Nesbitts Are Coming

Genre :

Dave Locket

1981-01-06 5

Seconds Out

Pete Dodds is a boxer and a bit of a wide boy who messes about in the ring, but has potential. Tony Sprake becomes his manager and Dave Locket his trainer. ...

Genre :Comedy

1965-10-07 3.8

Thirty-Minute Theatre

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted man ...

Genre :Drama

Sam

1973-04-14 6.6

Thriller

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, e ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Matthew Lombard

2004-07-11 7.185

The 4400

4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations rangi ...

Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Edward Fellows

1993-05-10 6.1

Peak Practice

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 ...

Genre :Drama

Cured Touched

1997-07-27 8.3

Stargate SG-1

The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of s ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure

King Harold

1993-01-27 6.7

The Detectives

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs. ...

Genre :Comedy

Cafe Owner

1965-01-23 7.8

Public Eye

Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the inves ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Tom

1987-06-19 0

Valentine Park

An ITV British Sitcom set in a public park, in which Tom the head gardener works along with Max, Bodie & Doyle. ...

Genre :Comedy

Uncle Bernard

1987-07-05 7.8

Watching

A young couple from Merseyside and their off again/on again relationship. ...

Genre :Comedy

Landlord

1968-08-15 7

Nearest and Dearest

Nearest and Dearest is a British television sitcom that ran from 1968 to 1973. A total of 46 episodes were made, 18 in monochrome and 28 in colour. The series, produced by Granada Television for ITV, ...

Genre :Comedy

Charlie Wheeler

1975-12-17 7.2

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends ...