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| Mark Jones |
| born: 09 December 1889 Los Angeles, California, United States of America |
died: 14 April 1965 St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, California, United States of America (age 75) |
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American actor who had a decent career working for Hal Roach in the early 1920s. He was also an accomplished acrobat. Mark's grandparents were John Jones, a Polish-born Jewish grocer, and Doria Deighton-Jones; they became prominent landowners and developers in 19th-century Los Angeles. John Jones was president of the Los Angeles Common Council from 1870-1871. His parents were Mark Gordon Jones (1859-1922), at one time President of the Merchants' Bank and Trust Company, Los Angeles, and Blanche Emily McDonald (1867-1945). He had two brothers, Deighton Gordon McDonald Jones (1885-1970) and Francis Marion McDonald Jones (1893-1979). He was married twice: first to Edna Mae Alchin (1894-1929) - once a well-known concert soprano - in 1911, with whom he had two children, Edna Mae "Babs" (b. 1913) and Doria Deighton (m. Cook, born 1923); both daughters were still alive when Doria's husband died in 2009. After the elder Edna's death, the widowed Mark married Leah Harriet Cavanaugh (1903-1973) in 1935; they divorced sometime between 1940 and 1947, when Leah re-married. After retiring from acting, Jones served on the Board of Directors of the Inglewood Park Cemetery Association (of which his father was previously President), and later served as its director, as well as being a "member of the Alma Laikah Temple, the York and Scottish Rite and the California Yacht Club." His obituary in the Los Angeles Times (17 Apr 1965) also mentions Jones being a "retired banker." |
| Real name: Mark McDonald Jones Height: 5'4½" |
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography. |
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