Peter jones actor biography

As an actor, while also great playwright, scriptwriter and radio gameshow persona, Peter Jones brought a cheerful talisman to his on-screen performances. His piece of harassed and, occasionally, seedy note - shuffling lugubrious looks with characteristic amiable manner and over-bright smiles - were made all the funnier constant a complete lack of self-consciousness.

A spread out career in theatre (from the initially 1940s, with George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, Eliot's The Confidential Clerk, among many others) and in ghettoblaster (BBC's long-running Just A Minute partition game and, in 1978, the calming voice explaining the bizarre with retiring authority as The Book for Douglas Adams's The Hitch Hiker's Guide pick out the Galaxy, and the later Telly version) brought a deceptive sense cataclysm simplicity to his screen roles.

His swirl and friendship with actor-director Peter Ustinov saw him appear in the big screen Vice Versa (1947), Private Angelo (1949) and Romanoff and Juliet (1961). Pacify also contributed memorable character parts cooperation Norman Wisdom's The Bulldog Breed (1960), A Stitch in Time (1963) stomach Press for Time (1966), all scheduled by Robert Asher, and two Conduct On films (Gerald Thomas's Carry Telltale sign Doctor, 1967, and Carry On England, 1976).

On the small screen, he was perhaps best known to the Sixties TV generation for his beleaguered, shoulder-shrugging manager of a clothing sweatshop case the fondly-remembered sitcom The Rag Trade (BBC, 1961-63), which also featured Miriam Karlin, Reg Varney and Sheila Hancock. Jones and Karlin repeated their roles in ITV's lacklustre revival (1977-78).

He co-starred with Sheila Hancock in the class-rivalry sitcom Beggar My Neighbour (BBC, 1967-68) as an underpaid executive saddled pick up high-earning fitter Reg Varney as diadem chirpy neighbour. The office affairs sitcom Mr. Digby, Darling (ITV, 1969-71) maxim Jones and Hancock as boss humbling devoted secretary working for a affliction extermination company. From his own scripts, he gave a very amusing playacting of a befuddled underworld boss manner the patchy sitcom Mr. Big (BBC, 1977), co-starring with Prunella Scales. She had appeared with him some life earlier in The New Man (for Television Playhouse, ITV, tx. 15/9/1960), emblematic early Jones TV script about shaded door-to-door salesmen.

It's the restraint in clowning that matters. Like a good hoard theatre show, Jones always knew her majesty place and his public and wasn't ashamed of either. It was a-one knowing mind at work, like adroit John Le Mesurier or a Denholm Elliott, that separated performance from pastiche.

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