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Simon Jones
Highest Rated: 87% Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
Lowest Rated: 11% Club Paradise (1986)
Birthday: Jul 27, 1950
Birthplace: Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England, UK
For fans of the science fiction comedy spoof "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," the BBC radio series that ran from 1978 to 2005, Simon Jones is best known for playing the unlucky protagonist, Arthur Dent. Jones first met the book's author, Douglas Adams, at Cambridge University, where both were members of the Footlights theatrical club. Adams has since stated publicly that Jones was the inspiration for the Arthur Dent character. While a member of Footlights, Jones also came in contact with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Because of his connection to Monty Python, Jones appeared in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," "Brazil," and "12 Monkeys," the latter two directed by Python member Terry Gilliam. Jones has also appeared in several Broadway plays, among them "The Fifteen-Minute Hamlet" and the Noel Coward-penned "Blithe Spirit." When he's not acting on stage or screen, Jones has lent his voice to dozens of audio books, including "Douglas Adams at the BBC."
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Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87% | 97% | Downton Abbey: A New Era | Unknown (Character) | $43.3M | 2022 |
| 84% | 94% | Downton Abbey | King George V (Character) | $96.8M | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | The Search for Simon | The Man in the Hat (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 60% | 65% | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Magrathean Announcer (Character) | $51.0M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud with Dr. Armand Nicholi | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target | Vickers (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | Cold Harvest | Victor (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Operation Delta Force II: Mayday | Vickers (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Merchant of Death | Detective Will `'Flash'` Gordon (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 37% | 41% | The Devil's Own | Harry Sloan (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 37% | 45% | For Love or Money | Albert (Character) | $10.4M | 1993 |
| 11% | 35% | Club Paradise | Toby Prooth (Character) | $11.8M | 1986 |
| 86% | 83% | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | Cedric (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | And Nothing but the Truth | Henderson (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Privates on Parade | Sergeant Eric Young-Love (Character) | - | 1982 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86% | 56% | The Gilded Age | Bannister (Character) | 2022-2023 |
| 78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Darien Marshall (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| 93% | 96% | Oz | Judge Mason Kessler (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Barnaby Friar (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Newhart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| 85% | 93% | Blackadder the Third | Sir Walter Raleigh (Character) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
| 83% | 80% | Brideshead Revisited | Lord Brideshead (Character) | 1981 |
| 71% | 60% | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Arthur Dent (Character) | 1981 |