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Peter David Penry Jones (20 May 1938 – 11 March 2009) was a Welsh actor. He was born in Cardiff and died in Anglesey.[1][2]

Career

Jones's television credits include: Colditz, The Professionals, To the Manor Born ("Connections in High Places"), Bergerac, Howards' Way, Kavanagh QC and Midsomer Murders ("The Electric Vendetta").[2][3] He worked with Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre.[4]

Personal life

The son of the Rev. David Penry Jones, a Presbyterian minister in South Wales, in September 1967 in Westminster Jones married actress Angela Thorne,[5] and they had two sons, actors Laurence and Rupert.[6][7]

Jones died of bowel cancer in 2009, aged 70, in Anglesey.[8]

Filmography and television

Notes

  1. ^ Peter Penry-Jones (1938–2009), IMDb. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Peter Penry-Jones". BFI. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Peter Penry-Jones". aveleyman.com.
  4. ^ "Peter Penry Jones". Theatricalia. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Marriages Sep 1967: JONES, PETER D P, THORNE, ANGELA M L, Westminster 5E 2267", freebmd.org.uk, accessed 24 November 2021
  6. ^ "David Penry-Jones Obituary (2009) - London, City of London - the Times". Legacy.com.
  7. ^ Hayward, Anthony (20 June 2023). "Angela Thorne obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  8. ^ https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-manor-born-actress-angela-30108053

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