Peter Jones
Date of birth: 1920-06-12
Place of birth: Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Peter Geoffrey Francis 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.
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Nearly a Nasty Accident
1961-05-01
The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he
Carry On Doctor
1967-12-02
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over ma
Carry On England
1976-10-01
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence b
School for Scoundrels
1960-03-24
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981-02-09
An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure acros
Press for Time
1966-12-08
Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime
The Browning Version
1951-04-06
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public
Forbidden
1949-02-28
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in bu
Home to Danger
1951-08-01
A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate.
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952-09-10
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from h
The Mansion of Madness
1973-08-10
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then
Miss Robin Hood
1952-11-12
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds hi
John and Julie
1955-07-26
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Cairo Road
1950-06-21
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs opera
The Long Memory
1953-01-23
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about
The Sandwich Man
1966-07-01
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
The Yellow Balloon
1953-02-10
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
Never Let Go
1960-06-02
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods
Romanoff and Juliet
1961-06-08
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the c
A Day to Remember
1953-11-10
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of th
The Blue Lagoon
1949-03-01
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days a
Private's Progress
1956-02-17
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of t
The Franchise Affair
1951-02-19
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
Angels One Five
1952-03-19
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front
Just Like a Woman
1967-02-26
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Sci
Tender Loving Care
1993-10-03
Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosph
Innocents in Paris
1953-07-22
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
Seven Nights in Japan
1976-08-05
Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and
Milk
1999-01-01
Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy fa
Confessions of a Pop Performer
1975-01-01
Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to g
The Magic Box
1952-01-01
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a
For Better, for Worse
1954-06-20
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are no
Operation Bullshine
1959-06-30
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is fille
Smashing Time
1967-12-20
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975-05-21
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catc
Chariots of Fire
1981-05-15
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr
The Good Beginning
1953-10-05
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the
Chance of a Lifetime
1950-04-24
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the
Last Holiday
1950-05-15
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On hi
Albert R.N.
1953-11-23
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attemp
On Such a Night
1956-02-01
An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1952-07-01
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England i
Adventures in Space and Time
1999-11-13
A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, trans
The Children Of Dynmouth
1987-04-24
The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1957-12-01
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find them
Father Came Too!
1964-02-11
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling fathe
I See a Dark Stranger
1946-07-04
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her
Danger Within
1959-02-17
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers f
Dead of Night
1945-09-09
While seeking some architectural work at a country farmhouse, Walter Craig soon finds himself once a
Fanny by Gaslight
1944-05-08
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father
Hot Millions
1968-09-19
A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming t
Vice Versa
1948-01-28
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1993-01-01
A documentary looking at the making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), including inter
The Bulldog Breed
1960-12-13
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After
A Stitch in Time
1963-12-01
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after c
High Treason
1951-11-13
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.