John Pierce Jones

Birth : 1946-05-10, Newborough, Anglesey, Wales, UK

History

John Pierce Jones is a Welsh actor and writer, born on the island of Anglesey, Wales. At the age of 12 he moved to Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England. After leaving school he returned to Wales and joined the police force. He later studied at Coleg Harlech and Bangor University before becoming a full-time actor. He is best known for being in the films  "Brazil" (1985); "Ironclad" (2011) and "Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009). He has been married to Inge Hanson since February 27, 1999.

Movies

The Current War
President Glover Cleveland
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Ironclad
Cook
In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King reneged on his word and assembled a mercenary army on the south coast of England with the intention of bringing the barons and the country back under his tyrannical rule. Barring his way stood the mighty Rochester castle, a place that would become the symbol of the rebel's momentous struggle for justice and freedom.
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Landlord
With their women having been enslaved by a pack of lesbian vampires, the remaining menfolk of a rural town send two hapless young lads out onto the moors as a sacrifice.
Say It with Flowers
Delivery Man
Leila is a young woman who's lost her way in life. She works in an all-night petrol station close to a suspension bridge. One day a huge bouquet of flowers is delivered to her doorstep. Her romantic longing and lust for life is reawakened.
One of the Hollywood Ten
Father Devlin
Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
Charlotte Gray
Monsieur Monceau
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
Lucky Break
Mad Lenny
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
The James Gang
Bank Manager
After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.
Brazil
Basement Guard
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Owain Glyndŵr - Prince of Wales
Rhodri
A biopic of the last Prince of Wales.
Blood on the Stars
Second Constable
Shadrach Smith and his school choir do their best to ensure that the local celebrities hired to appear at a concert in a village hall don't make it to the stage and slaughter anyone they believe is getting in their way. Released in 1974/1975.