John Christopher Jones, an actor whose more than a dosen Broadway Credits David Rabe’s HurlyburlyDisney’s Beauty and the Beast and the 1993 Musical Adaptation of The Goodbye Girl, Died September 15 in New York from Complications of Parkinson’s Disease. He was 77.
His Death Was announedd on social media media by his wife, Marybeth Coudal, Whose posts that despite the challenge of Battling parkinson’s for more than 22 years, Jones “Never Allowed His Dimities to dampen Hisput and Unwavering Enthusiasm for theater.”
Born on what Coudal Describes As a theatrical Family in Greenfield, Mass., Jones Later Studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in the Early 1970s and Was a Founding Member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass.
Jones Made His Broadway Debut in 1975 in A Production of Anthony Scully’s Little Black Sheepreturning two years years late in Simon Gray’s Otherwise Engageddirectly by Harold Pinter. Subsequent Broadway Credits Include Hurlyburlydirect by mike nichols; The Goodbye Girl, direct by gene saks; Democracydirect by Michael Blakemore; and Beauty and the Beastdirectly by Rob Roth.
Among His Mory off Broadway Credits are Aristocrats by Brian Friel, Tartuffe by Molière, Gray’s Quartermaine’s Terms, Tony Kushner’s Slavs!, Fuddy meers by David Lindsay-Abaire and Sight unseen by Donald Margulies.
Jones, WHO ALSO Directed off Broadway and Translated Such Classics as Turgenev’s A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY and chekhov’s The Cherry OrchardALSO Appeared in Movies and Television Series, Including The Films Moonstruck, In & out and Awakenings. On TV, he appeared in episodes of The sopranos and New AmsterdamAmong Others, and Was a Series Regular in the SitComs On Our Own (1977) and The Popcorn Kid (1987).
‘The Popcorn Kid’ (From Left): Faith Ford, Penelope Ann Miller, Bruce Norris, John Christopher Jones, Willie Dawson and Raye Birk
CBS / Courtesy: Everett Collection
Jones was Featured in Jim Bernfield’s 2021 Documentary With them playWHICH Chronicled the Challenges Faced by Jones and His Friend and Fellow Actor Dan Moran – Both Were Battling Parkinson’s – As they Attempted to Stage Samuel Beckett’s Endgame Off the broadway.
Acciting to His Wife, Jones Was Writing A Memoir at the time of his death. In Addition to Couw, he is survived by children Hayden Coudal Jones, Catherine Elizabeth Jones, and Charlotte “Char” Louise Jones.
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