English stage, television, and film director
Was artistic director of the RSCs Aldwych Theatre.
Father, with Sheila Allen , of sons Joe Jones and Jesse Jones.
Left the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1979 to take up an appointment as artistic director at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and to found a resident theatre company modelled on the RSC. Taught at the Yale School of Drama in 1981 before returning to England.
While he directed A Christmas Carol , his son Joe portrayed Carolines husband. That character and his wife Caroline previously did not appear in every film adaptation of Charles Dickens holiday-themed novel. Their scene occurs after the Spirit of Christmas Future compels Scrooge to view his own bedroom with a shrouded corpse of himself on the bed and before the spirit takes him to Bob Cratchits house.
