Simon Jones (actor)

Simon Jones
Birth date:	27 July 1950
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Talbot
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday & The Haunting of Malkin Place
Main time period active:	1974, 2017
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Out of the Trees, Rock Follies, The Hitch-Hickers Guide to the Galaxy, Brideshead Revisited, Privates on Parade, The Meaning of Life, Brazil, Blackadder, Murder, She Wrote, All Good Things, Miracle on 34th Street, Matilda, The Thomas Crown Affair, Benjamin Franklin, Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams, The Search for Simon, 50 Years of BBC2 Comedy
IMDb profile

Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) played the Master of Karn in the stage play Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday, as well as a Dalek in the second act and, for one night only, the Doctor's companion Jimmy. He also voiced Talbot in The Haunting of Malkin Place.

He is best known for playing Arthur Dent in both the 1978 radio series and the 1981 TV serial of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams. He also appeared as Sir Walter Raleigh in the Blackadder II episode “Potato”, which co-starred Tom Baker.

External links

• Simon Jones at the Internet Movie Database