Background
Jones was born in Wooster, Ohio.
Jones was born in Wooster, Ohio.
His acting credits, which included more than 170 roles in television, included reoccurring appearances in Highway Patrol during the 1950s and The Blue Angels. He enlisted the United States Navy and moved to California when he was stationed at Naval Base Coronado. His approximately twenty-five screen credits included a lead role in the 1957 science fiction film, Not of This Earth, by Roger Corman, as well as other castings in Apache Woman in 1955, Forbidden Planet in 1956, Fear Strikes Out in 1957, Bells Are Ringing in 1960.
Jones appeared in an episode of the 1970 situation comedy The Tim Conway Show and a 1965 episode of Hazel.
In 1961, he appeared in The Twilight Zone episode "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?".