Personal Info
Birth date
1920-06-12 (105 Years)
Day of death
2000-04-10
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
Also known as
Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones
Peter Jones
Biography
Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones (12 June 1920 - 10 April 2000) was a distinguished British actor and radio personality known for his distinctive voice and narration. He gained recognition for his role as The Book in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," providing the voice of the eponymous guidebook in both the radio series and subsequent adaptations. Jones's soothing and authoritative voice lent a unique charm to the character, guiding audiences through the whimsical and absurd universe created by Douglas Adams. His contributions to the series as the voice of The Book became iconic and memorable for fans of the series.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.5
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.The Avengers
7.734
Overview:
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).Minder
6.8
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.The Upper Hand
7
Overview:
The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.The Goodies
7.5
Overview:
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8.1
Overview:
Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman who life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything you ever needed, and wanted to know. They travel across the galaxy, meeting friendly, and not so friendly characters in order to find the great question (the answer being 42).Beggar My Neighbour
6
Overview:
Beggar My Neighbour was a black-and-white British sitcom starring Reg Varney, Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Pat Coombs and Desmond Walter-Ellis. It aired from 1966 to 1968 and was written by Ken Hoare and Mike Sharland.Rumpole of the Bailey
7.1
Overview:
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.ITV Christmas Comedy
NYR
Overview:
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the special edition of your favourtie comedy show to fill the gap between the staggeringly huge Christmas dinner and the Queen's speech, and the ITV network have rolled hours of Christmas's into one with their latest DVD set of ITV comedy. With almost ten hours of classic, festive merriment featuring some of the channel's most memorable Christmas specials the whole family can relive the joys of Christmas past.Q...
7.2
Overview:
Q... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC2. There were six series in all, the first five numbered from Q5 to Q9, and a final series titled There's a Lot of It About. The first and third series ran for seven episodes, and the others for six episodes, each of which was 30 minutes long. Various reasons have been suggested for the title. One possibility is that it was inspired by the project to construct the Cunard liner QE2, launched in September 1967, which was dubbed Q4. Another theory is that Milligan was inspired by the BBC 6-point technical quality scale of the time, where "Q5" was severe degradation to picture or sound, and "Q6" was complete loss of sound or vision. This was extended by some engineering departments to a 9-point scale, finishing at "Q9". According to Milligan's autobiography, the final series was renamed There's a Lot of It About after the BBC felt the public might find Q10 too confusing.The Agatha Christie Hour
6.7
Overview:
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.From a Bird's Eye View
5.5
Overview:
From a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United States it aired on NBC, which had originally ordered the series as an entry in the 1969-70 TV season but pushed it back to the 1970-71 season as a mid-season replacement. The series followed two International Airlines stewardesses, a scatterbrained Briton and a savvy American, as they flew the London-European routes. The series ran for 16 25-minute colour episodes. The series was not a big success in either the UK or the US, but ITC re-used the format for the Shirley MacLaine series Shirley's World. That show also flopped, but ran to one more episode than From a Bird's Eye View.Whoops Apocalypse
7.2
Overview:
Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles. The series has a big cult audience, and copies of videos are heavily sought after. The British budget label Channel 5 Video released a compilation cassette of all six episodes edited together into one 137-minute chunk in 1987. In 2010 Network DVD released both the complete, unedited series and the movie on a 2-DVD set entitled Whoops Apocalypse: The Complete Apocalypse.. John Otway also recorded a song called "Whoops Apocalypse", which was used as the theme song for the film. He occasionally performs it live.One-Upmanship
9
Overview:
A quintessentially British comedy-of-manners. Based at the fictional Yeovil College of Lifemanship, Richard Briers plays Stephen Potter and is joined by Peter Jones as the snooty Gatling-Fenn and Frederick Jaeger, complete with monocle, playing Cogg-Willoughby. "The world is divided into two types of people," Potter says, "winners and losers, the one-up and the one-down. He who is not one-up is surely one-down".I Thought You'd Gone
NYR
Overview:
Just when they were beginning to enjoy life alone, a middle-aged couple find their grown-up children wanting to return home.Chariots of Fire
6.787
Overview:
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.The Return of the Pink Panther
6.795
Overview:
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.Dead of Night
7.189
Overview:
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.Confessions of a Pop Performer
4.545
Overview:
Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group, our boisterous hero progresses rapidly from local gigs to scoring a titillating hit with The Climax Sisters, with plenty of ribald adventures along the way!The Browning Version
7.6
Overview:
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.Last Holiday
7.1
Overview:
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.Acting
1999Adventures in Space and Time as Narrator
1999Milk as Harry
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Bunny Dawlish
1993Tender Loving Care as Mr Davies
1993The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self / Narrator
1990The Upper Hand (1 Episode) as Mr. Baker
1987The Children Of Dynmouth as Mr. Dass
1984I Thought You'd Gone (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1984Saturday Review (1 Episode) as The Book (voice)
1983ITV Christmas Comedy (15 Episodes) as Unknown
1982The Agatha Christie Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982Whoops Apocalypse (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1981Chariots of Fire as Unknown
1981The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy as The Book
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (6 Episodes) as The Book
1979Minder (1 Episode) as Henry
1977The Rag Trade (22 Episodes) as Unknown
1976Carry On England as Brigadier
1976Seven Nights in Japan as Capt. Balcon
1976Star Turn (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976One-Upmanship (17 Episodes) as Unknown
1975Rumpole of the Bailey (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975The Return of the Pink Panther as Psychiatrist
1975Confessions of a Pop Performer as Maxy Naus
1973The Mansion of Madness as Unknown
1971Kindly Leave The Kerb (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1970The Goodies (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Minister for Sports
1970From a Bird's Eye View (16 Episodes) as Clive Beauchamp
1969Q... (32 Episodes) as Unknown
1969Mr Digby, Darling (19 Episodes) as Unknown
1968Hot Millions as Prison Governor
1967Smashing Time as Dominic
1967Carry On Doctor as Chaplain
1967Beggar My Neighbour (22 Episodes) as Unknown
1967Just Like a Woman as Saul Alexander
1966The Sandwich Man as Escapologist
1966Mild And Bitter (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1966Press for Time as Robin Willobey (photographer)
1964Father Came Too! as Charles II
1961Romanoff and Juliet as Otto
1961Nearly a Nasty Accident as Flight Lt. Winters
1961The Avengers (2 Episodes) as Doyle
1960Never Let Go as Alec Berger
1960School for Scoundrels as Dudley
1959Operation Bullshine as Gunner Perkins
1959Danger Within as Capt. Alfred Piker
1957Blue Murder at St. Trinian's as Prestwick
1956Private's Progress as Arthur Egan
1956On Such a Night as Second Gentleman
1955John and Julie as Jeremy
1954For Better, for Worse as The Car Dealer
1953Albert R.N. as Schoolie
1953A Day to Remember as Percy Goodall
1953The Good Beginning as Furrier
1953Innocents in Paris as Langton
1953The Yellow Balloon as Spiv
1953The Long Memory as Fisher
1952Miss Robin Hood as Cyril Lidstone
195224 Hours of a Woman's Life as Bill
1952Time, Gentlemen, Please! as Lionel Batts
1952Angels One Five as Sentry
1952The Magic Box as Industry Man
1951Home to Danger as Lips Leonard
1951Treasure Island (8 Episodes) as Unknown
1951The Browning Version as Carstairs
1951The Franchise Affair as Bernard Chadwick
1950Cairo Road as Ship Lieutenant
1950Last Holiday as Travel Agent
1950Chance of a Lifetime as Xenobian
1949The Blue Lagoon as Michael-child
1949Forbidden as Pete
1948Vice Versa as Chawner
1946I See a Dark Stranger as Soldier in Pub (uncredited)
1945Dead of Night as Fred, Barman (Segment "Golfing Story") (Uncredited)
1944Fanny by Gaslight as Young Client at 'The Shades' (uncredited)
Production
2002Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence ... Executive Producer
Directing
1987Platinum Bombshell ... Director
Writing
1987Platinum Bombshell ... Writer