Personal Info
Birth date
1946-04-03 (79 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
London, England, UK
Also known as
-Nicholas Jones
Biography
Nicholas Jones (born 3 April 1946) is an English character actor who has appeared on stage, film and television.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.494
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.House of the Dragon
8.328
Overview:
The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.Silent Witness
7.576
Overview:
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.The Crown
8.2
Overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.Father Brown
7.545
Overview:
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.Spooks
7.7
Overview:
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.Casualty
6.1
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.Blue Heelers
6.6
Overview:
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.BBC Play of the Month
5
Overview:
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.Foyle's War
7.898
Overview:
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.Lewis
7.6
Overview:
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.Waking the Dead
7.2
Overview:
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.New Tricks
7.4
Overview:
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.A Touch of Frost
7.507
Overview:
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
7.9
Overview:
The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.Jonathan Creek
7.5
Overview:
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.In the Heart of the Sea
6.756
Overview:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.The Protectors
5.6
Overview:
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation. The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.Bramwell
4.2
Overview:
The story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues and society. Determined to take the medical profession out of the dark ages, her strongly held opinions often draw her into conflict with the chief surgeon, a man keener on tradition than he is on progress.Hornblower
7.617
Overview:
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.The Hollow Crown
7.4
Overview:
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.Kavanagh Q.C.
6.75
Overview:
James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.Darkest Hour
7.351
Overview:
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.Crucible of Horror
5.4
Overview:
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.Hornblower: Retribution
7.456
Overview:
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.Flawless
6.73
Overview:
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.Sharpe: The Legend
6
Overview:
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.Rebus
7.075
Overview:
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to circumvent the law to enforce it.Little Dorrit
7.8
Overview:
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.Acting
2022House of the Dragon (8 Episodes) as Lord Bartimos Celtigar
2022Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop as Professor Vernon Murray
2022Anne (4 Episodes) as Sir Murray Stuart-Smith
2019Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler (2 Episodes) as Sir Francis Tewkes
2018The Children Act as Professor Carter
2017Darkest Hour as Sir John Simon
2017War Machine as Dick Waddle
2017The Moorside (2 Episodes) as Judge
2016The Crown (1 Episode) as Lord Moran
2015In the Heart of the Sea as Pollard Senior
2014Mr. Turner as Sir John Soane
2014Beyond the Pale as Sir Edward Shore
2014Effie Gray as Doctor Lee
2013Philomena as Dr. Robert
2013Father Brown (1 Episode) as Colonel Cecil Gerard
2012The Best of Men as General Blake
2012The Hollow Crown (1 Episode) as Archbishop of York
2011The Iron Lady as Admiral Leach
2011The Lady as Robert Gordon, UK Ambassador 1995-1999
2011Twenty Twelve (1 Episode) as Tony Griffiths
2010Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge (1 Episode) as Cecil Croom-Phillips
2009Margaret as Tim Renton
2008Little Dorrit (14 Episodes) as Scary Butler
2007Flawless as Jameson
2007Surveillance 24/7 as Lord Raven (Jake's Father)
2007Lewis (2 Episodes) as Philip Hathaway
2006Eleventh Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005Sensitive Skin (12 Episodes) as Roger Dorkins
2005Jericho (4 Episodes) as AC Graham Cherry
2004Vera Drake as Defence Barrister
2004The Alan Clark Diaries (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2004New Tricks (1 Episode) as Michaela Pendle
2003The Commander (17 Episodes) as Unknown
2002Foyle's War (1 Episode) as Sir William Chambers
2002Spooks (2 Episodes) as Michael Collingwood
2001Waking the Dead (2 Episodes) as Leo Harding
2001Hornblower: Retribution as Lt. Buckland
2001Hornblower: Mutiny as Lieutenant Buckland
2000Rebus (1 Episode) as Commander Steelforth
1999This Year's Love as James
1998Hornblower (2 Episodes) as Lieutenant Buckland
1997Sharpe: The Legend as Fletcher
1997A Dance to the Music of Time (4 Episodes) as Bob Duport
1997The Beggar Bride as Sir Fabian Ormerod
1997The Beggar Bride (2 Episodes) as Sir Fabian Ormerod
1997Jonathan Creek (1 Episode) as Claude Bergman
1997Midsomer Murders (1, 1 Episode) as Reverend Moreland, Ernest Bradley
1997Gobble as George Cranley
1996Silent Witness (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1995Bramwell (1 Episode) as Lord Edward Carstairs
1995Kavanagh Q.C. (26 Episodes) as Jeremy Aldermarten QC
1994Sharpe's Company as Fletcher
1993Blue Heelers (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993Lipstick on Your Collar (6 Episodes) as Major Carter
1993Unnatural Causes as Luker
1992A Touch of Frost (1 Episode) as Unknown
1992Anglo Saxon Attitudes (3 Episodes) as Robin Middleton
1992A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia as Lord Dyson
1991For the Greater Good (3 Episodes) as Julian Brind
1990Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less as Dr. Robin Oakley
1989Fellow Traveller as Inspector
1989The Saint: The Brazilian Connection as Dr. Lester
1989When the Whales Came as Vicar
1986Casualty (1 Episode) as John Packard
1986On Wings of Fire as King Gushnasp
1985Theatre Night (1 Episode) as Unknown
1985The Price as Andrew
1985The Price (6 Episodes) as Andrew
1985Screen Two (1 Episode) as Detective Inspector
1983Number 10 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982The Glory Hole as Captain
1981The Flame Trees of Thika (7 Episodes) as Hereward
1978Lillie (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1977Anna Karenina (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1977Wings (25 Episodes) as Captain Owen Triggers
1976Our Mutual Friend (7 Episodes) as Eugene Wrayburn
1975The Little Minister as Captain Halliwell
1974The Canterville Ghost as Duke of Cheshire
1974Daisy Miller as Charles
1974The Sun Is God as John Ruskin
1973Alice Through the Looking Glass as Unknown
1973Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood as Squire
1973The Blockhouse as Kromer
1972The Protectors (1 Episode) as Ransome
1971Crucible of Horror as Benjy Smith
1965BBC Play of the Month (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Valère, Young Baron, Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Capt. Halliwell
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Laertes
Directing
2023This Land ... Director