Nicholas Jones

Nicholas Jones may refer to:

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Nicholas Jones (actor)

Nicholas Jones (born 3 April 1946) is an English character actor of film and television.

Early life

Jones was born in London, the younger brother of actress Gemma Jones. They are the children of actor Griffith Jones.

Jones was educated at Westminster School and he trained as an actor at RADA and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He then appeared on stage at the National Theatre and the Old Vic.

Career

He followed in his father's footsteps by appearing with the Royal Shakespeare Company (1999), and has also starred at Shakespeare's Globe. One of his first screen roles was as Laertes opposite Richard Chamberlain's Hamlet in 1970.

Filmography

Television

On television he is perhaps best known for his role as Captain Triggers in the 1970s World War I series, Wings. He has also appeared in the following roles and series:

Nicholas Jones (journalist)

Nicholas Jones (born 1942) is a British broadcasting and newspaper journalist, author and political commentator.

Jones is a print and broadcasting journalist and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent with over fifty years' experience. He is also the author of several books about British politics and industrial relations.

Early life

Jones was born on 1 October 1942 in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. His father was Clem Jones, who edited the Express & Star in Wolverhampton for a decade from 1960, and his brother is George Jones, the former political editor of The Daily Telegraph.

Education

Jones was educated at Tettenhall College, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational) in the suburban town of Tettenhall in Staffordshire (since 1966 part of Wolverhampton).

Life and career

In the late 1950s, Jones left school at the age of 16, to work as an editorial assistant on the weekly trade magazine Advertisers Weekly. For seven years he worked as a reporter on evening newspapers in Portsmouth and Oxford.