Biography
Nicholas Jones (born 3 April 1946) is an English character actor who has appeared on stage, film and television.
Known For
Complete Filmography
This Land
2023
Director
A short horror film.
Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop
2022
as Professor Vernon Murray
Miss Willoughby is an educator and keen adventurer, an heiress to a family fortune who, along with her ex-forces butler, Robert, and cheeky but reliab...
The Children Act
2018
as Professor Carter
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite hi...
Darkest Hour
2017
as Sir John Simon
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it c...
War Machine
2017
as Dick Waddle
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true stor...
In the Heart of the Sea
2015
as Pollard Senior
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almo...
Mr. Turner
2014
as Sir John Soane
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful ...
Beyond the Pale
2014
as Sir Edward Shore
Mr. Whicher is hired by former Home Secretary Sir Edward Shore to investigate the violent threats made against his son Charles, who has recently retur...
Effie Gray
2014
as Doctor Lee
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Philomena
2013
as Dr. Robert
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
The Best of Men
2012
as General Blake
Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buck...
The Iron Lady
2011
as Admiral Leach
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
The Lady
2011
as Robert Gordon, UK Ambassador 1995-1999
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Margaret
2009
as Tim Renton
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990...
Flawless
2007
as Jameson
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
Surveillance 24/7
2007
as Lord Raven (Jake's Father)
Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.
Vera Drake
2004
as Defence Barrister
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
as Lt. Buckland
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving t...
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
as Lieutenant Buckland
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, th...
This Year's Love
1999
as James
The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Cam...
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Fletcher
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer ...
The Beggar Bride
1997
as Sir Fabian Ormerod
How far will she go for money? "Don't you see, Billy, people like them owe people like us." Young, beautiful and living on the breadline with a feck...
Gobble
1997
as George Cranley
As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".
Sharpe's Company
1994
as Fletcher
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharp...
Unnatural Causes
1993
as Luker
Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a famous myste...
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
as Lord Dyson
In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help Emir Feisal, ruler of Arabia, retain his political power during the Conference of...
Come Home Charlie and Face Them
1990
as Powell
Adapting R.F. Delderfield's classic story of love, lust, crime and betrayal, this three-part mini-series centres around a young bank clerk whose yearn...
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
1990
as Dr. Robin Oakley
Four victims of a stock swindle meet and plot to get their money back from the crooked financier responsible. Each man, an Oxford professor, a Harley ...
Fellow Traveller
1989
as Inspector
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept i...
The Saint: The Brazilian Connection
1989
as Dr. Lester
Sleuth Simon Templar ties a London baby's kidnapping to a black-market baby ring based in Brazil.
When the Whales Came
1989
as Vicar
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a ...
On Wings of Fire
1986
as King Gushnasp
Maestro Zubin Mehta introduces the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra in an epic that covers 3500 years of the Zoroastrians, Parsees o...
The Price
1985
as Andrew
Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daug...
The Glory Hole
1982
as Captain
Cathy and Noel are a Catholic and a protestant soldier. They fall in love, to their cost.
The Little Minister
1975
as Captain Halliwell
In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy g...
The Canterville Ghost
1974
as Duke of Cheshire
The ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by p...
Daisy Miller
1974
as Charles
Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgmen...
The Sun Is God
1974
as John Ruskin
A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1973
1973 BBC TV movie adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll.
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
1973
as Squire
Robert of Locksley is harbouring a runaway serf. A warrant is then issued for Robert's arrest: he is now an outlaw. Stars David Warbeck, Kathleen Byro...
The Blockhouse
1973
as Kromer
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies ...
Crucible of Horror
1971
as Benjy Smith
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.