Jones began an affair with his costar, Pia Degermark (star ofElvira Madigan[1967]), and a dalliance with Susan George, who played his girlfriend inThe Looking Glass War. Tate was just beginning her acting career at that point, having appeared on two episodes of the TV show Mister Ed. "At the time I was not sure whether to believe him, but that was the last time I saw Christopher Jones.". In 1996, he told Pamela Des Barres that his life had not been a success, and he felt haunted by his youthful fame, like Dorian Gray. And I wasnt interested.. Though he was accompanied by his latest girlfriend, Olivia Hussey, Jones hated the experience of making the film. "We were talking and getting closer, and although her skirt was riding right up, she wasn't bothering to pull it down. But I was just getting on with my life." Back in 2015, Hussey shared a black and white photo of her with Jones with the caption: 'With actor Christopher Jones. Later, he married Susan Strasberg, the daughter of Actors Studio founder Lee Strasberg. When he was cast to star in Ryan's Daughter, Jones was already being heralded as the new James Dean after his role in the cult movie Wild In The Streets opposite Shelley Winters. The second wife of film director Roman Polanski, Tate was brutally murdered (along with four others) by followers of Charles Manson at the couple's rented home in Los Angeles in 1969 (see Tate murders). The schools headmistress (Nan Martin) eventually discovers his whereabouts and Mimieux leaves the school with him. Speculation ranged across several possible explanations: a troubled personal history, a rebels rejection of the strict regimen of filmmaking, his shock when a loved one was murdered because of her fame. Born William Frank Jones in Jackson, Tennessee, he grew up an orphan who spent years in boys homes before adopting the name Christopher and starting a career in the theatre. They werent thieves. Christopher Jones, an actor who seemed poised for stardom before abruptly abandoning his movie career in the late 1960s, died on Jan. 31 in Los Alamitos, Calif. Although Jones failed to appear for a read through of the script with the rest of the films cast, principal photography onWildwrapped in 20 days without incident. He was very unhappy with the procedure and he found the director very abusive.. A little over two years after the release ofWild in the Streets, Jones abruptly quit acting and withdrew from public life. Jones came to Hollywood and landed a gig as the notorious outlaw in The Legend of Jesse James, but the Western, facing steep competition on Monday nights from The Lucy Show on CBS and Dr. Kildare on NBC, lasted just one season, airing from September 1965 to May 1966. Rising star: Christopher Jones as Major Randolph Doryan in Ryan's Daughter, Brief career: Jones with co-star Sarah Miles in the David Lean classic. InThree in the Attic(1968), he played Paxton Quigley, a college Casanova who carries on simultaneous affairs with three co-eds (Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace, and Maggie Thrett) at a womens university in Vermont. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. "The next day I ran into actress Nathalie Delon (wife of actor Alain Delon) who was a friend of Sharon's and whom I had also been seeing, and she said: 'Chris, what did you do to Sharon? He has often been. She would appear as a red-haired beauty in the spy spoof The Wrecking Crew (1968) working with Dean Martin and the equally beautiful Elke Sommer. Jones suffered a nervous breakdown early into the filming ofRyans Daughterafter learning that Sharon Tate and four others had been murdered in her home in Los Angeles on August 9, 1969. Sharon was in Italy filming 13 (Eye of the Devil). Its stylish and it was stylish at the time to hate your agents, hate your managers. The couple share a lovers idyll in the Italian countryside and at a luxury hotel, their pleasure made poignant by the eventuality of Johnnys recapture. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class.
The actress, now 67, told Peoplemagazine thatJones started abusing her soon after they began dating in the late 1960s after she played Juliet on the big screen. But what about what people say? Jones and Lean clashed continually. Getting on with his life included embarking on an affair with Olivia Hussey, whom he had seen in the movie Romeo And Juliet. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. //