On the fourth take, the pictures glass shattered, injuring his hand. Lean eventually insisted on 30 takes of the scene. But I was just getting on with my life." In his favorable review of the film,Varietys Murf noted, Christopher Jones, whose future star potential is established herein. American International Pictures must have been ecstatic whenNew York Timesreviewer Renata Adler wrote, By far the best American film of the year so farand this has been the worst year in a long time for, among other things, moviesis Wild in the Streets. It is a very blunt, bitter, head-on but live and funny attack on the problem of the generations. [CDATA[ amzn_assoc_ad_type = "product_link"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "worlcinepara-20"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_placement = "B008I34YTY"; amzn_assoc_asins = "B008I34YTY"; amzn_assoc_show_border = true; amzn_assoc_link_opens_in_new_window = true; Play it now! When she discovered that he was writing letters to Susan Strasberg, she flew into a rage and left. In his later years, Jones had a career as an artist and sculptor. I had absolutely no desire to do anything for a long time, he said. "), seven children and a couple of brushes with death. He looked like James Dean, but Chris Jones didnt take himself seriously like James Dean. She had this little scar on the left of her face against all this perfection, and when I reached over to touch it, I could feel her react. Published: 13:52 EST, 25 July 2018 | Updated: 15:27 EST, 25 July 2018. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Adrianna Jiselle Anderson. She says her former boyfriend, actor Christopher Jones, attacked and raped her in the home where Sharon Tate was murdered. [5], After two films in Europe with Pia DegermarkThe Looking Glass War and Brief Season, both in 1970Jones was cast by director David Lean in Ryan's Daughter (1970). Born William Franklin Jones amid rather impoverished surroundings to a grocery clerk in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1941, his artist mother had to be institutionalized when Chris was 4. [1] He is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. 'I was young, and I loved him. Jones (having adopted the stage name Christopher) made his Broadway debut on December 17, 1961, in Tennessee Williams 's The Night of the Iguana, directed by Frank Corsaro and starring Shelley Winters. PHOTOS: 35 of 2014s Most Anticipated Movies. [citation needed], Jones was offered the part of Zed in Pulp Fiction (1994) by director Quentin Tarantino, but he turned it down. View the profiles of people named Sharon Tate Jones on Facebook. "In that first scene where I'm pushing her up against the wall, as much as she said she didn't feel anything, she was gone. When Jones flew to London to film interior scenes, he was joined by Jim Morrisons girlfriend, Pamela Courson, who he began an affair with while living at the Chateau Marmont hotel on the Sunset Strip. He has managed to cram an awful lot into his life, including a marriage to actress Susan Strasberg (daughter of acting coach, Lee Strasberg), countless lovers (including actresses Olivia Hussey and Susan George, "who came up to my apartment when I was staying in London and the next day moved her toothbrush in, so I had to say, no way! "Yes, I knew Sharon was pregnant and of course I felt guilty about that, but I've thought about this a lot since and the marriage vows say: 'What God joins together, let no man put asunder.' Christopher Jones as Jesse James, in 1965, "Christopher Jones, Actor who Quit Field, Dies at 72", Christopher Jones Biography at cinetropic, "Christopher Jones dies at 72; actor quit at peak of career", "Olivia Hussey, star of Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet: 'I was wild', "Olivia Hussey recalls controversial 'Romeo and Juliet' role at 16, reveals personal tragedies", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Jones_(actor)&oldid=1142297304, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 16:47. // ]]> Sandler previously won 10 Kids' Choice Awards orange blimps. Mr. Jones and his older brother, Bobby Joe, ended up in an orphanage. By Hussey was only 15 when she became a Hollywood star thanks to. She said that he was even given a local pharmacists homemade aphrodisiac. //