BARRY JONES - 1960 / 1965

1960

Film:  Caroline der Rijeka - made at Portoroz, Istria, Yugoslavia.  September 1960.  With Anne Aubrey, David McCallum, Darin Nesbitt.  Intended to be a dramatic Yugoslavian film with an imported bunch of international actors.  BJ as the British Admiral described it as;

a lovely film and perhaps, almost certainly my favourite film part, it was though so bad that we shall never see it.  Such is luck.

Filmed partly on HMS Nile in the Adriatic during August and September 1960.  BJ continues;

As magnificent a script as ever can have been written, a delightful story and the best film part given to me.  Seven Days to Noon was good, but this was the first comedy film role offered to me".  BJ goes onto describe it as, "an extremely happy ship but it was not entirely well cast or played.  David McCallum and Darin Nesbitt were excellent and the entire set could not have been more delightful".  The film although complete will never be seen as the dubbing into English of the great variety of international accents (every one attempted to speak English but not one in ten understood what they were saying!) ended up being hilarious to the British sector of the cast and later to audiences.  BJ, "The whole thing was a tragedy, a glorious show wasted, but what a happy engagement.

TV:May 1960 - The Guinea Pig, by Warren Chetam-Strode.  BJ played Lloyd Hartley MA, with Ellen Macintosh, John Sharpless, Michael Crawford.

Micahel Crawford letter to SJ, 28 July 1981, on 'Barnum' letter head;

Thank you very much for your letter of 29th June.

I really don't think that I can be of much help to you, concerning your uncle.  I just remember with great affection, working with him in 'The Guinea Pig' back in 1960, but I'm afraid I can't remember any anecdotes that would be of any use to you.  Wishing you every success with you project.

Sincerely,

Michael Crawford.

1961

TV - 19 May 1961, broadcast 04th June 1961 - Something Old, Something New, BJ as Latimer,  Morde Whitmore as Mrs Phillips.  Toronto, Canada.

TV - February, an NBC 'Hallmark Hall of Fame' production of Time Remembered a romantic comedy by Jean Anhouilh.  Made in NY, Compass Productions Inc., with Dame Edith Evans, Janet Munrow, Sig Arno and BJ as Lord Hector.  Produced & directed by George Shaffer.  - Also in a BBC TV version of Time Remembered, with Max Adrian and Dame Edith Evans.

1963

TV - 9.25, 21st Jan. 1963, BBC, Julius Ceasar in Julius Ceasar,  BBC's Spread of the Eagle Series, a nine part cycle based on three Roman plays by William Shakespeare, Part 5: The Fifteenth.  BJ paid £236.5s.  Keith Michell as Mark Anthony, Peter Cushing as Caius Cassius, Paul Eddington as Marcus Brutus, David William as Octavius Ceasar, etc..  Produced & directed by Peter Dews.

TV - 26 Sept 1963, BBC, took part in an Ivan Nevelo series. Paid 15 guineas.

TV - 6 Dec. 1963, BBC, Martin Chuzzlewit in Martin Chuzzlewit.  Paid £180.12s.  This was a TV serial adaptation from the Charles Dickens novel that ran in December 1963 into January 1964.  BJ as Old Martin in episode one.  Directed by John Kraft, produced by Campbell Logan and dramatised by Constance Cox.  First showen 19 January 1964, BBC.

1964

TV - Pilgrim, Why do you Come.  CBC, 15 June.  Stratford, Ontario, Canada.  With John Hawton, Jack Mather, Corina Connely and BJ as Woolsey was "the special guest star".  The TV adaptation was used for the opening of the 1964 festival and was produced by Basil Coleman.  BJ left Guernsey on 30 April to do the part and was described in the Canadian press as;

"..that most flown actor, Jones is a ruddy faced 71 year old whose jauntiness doesn't quite hide the rather preoccupied introspective expression of, 'I should have retired nearly six years ago', he tells us, 'but I can not resist a call from Toronto where I was shown so much kindness and enjoyed such success in the late 20's".

1965

Film: The Heroes of Telemark, A Study In Terror and a Fox film Murder in the Family directed by Al Parker (? 1937 ?).  With Evelyn Anchors, David Malcolm, Jessica Tandy, Jessie Winters, Roddy McDowal and Glynis Johns.  Made at the Wembley Studios.

TV - 18 Jan. 1965, BBC, Sherlock Holmes.  Paid £358.1s.  Douglas Willmer played Holmes, Nigel Stock as Dr Watson and BJ as Charles Augustus Milverton.  Episode title C.A.Milverton,  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Produced by David Goddard and directed by Phillip Dudley.  The Radio Times leader reads, "Blackmail is a detestable crime with bitter consequences, so when Holmes faces London's leading blackmailer he is prepared to stop at nothing to defeat him".

September 1965 - Maurice Colbourne dies - BJ sells 48 Camden Hill Square and moves home to Le Catioroc, Guernsey.