Nicholas Jones (actor)
Nicholas Jones (born 3 April 1946) is an English character actor. His older sister is actress Gemma Jones. They are the children of actor Griffith Jones.
Jones was educated at Westminster School and he trained as an actor at RADA and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He then appeared on stage at the National Theatre and the Old Vic. He has followed in his father's footsteps by appearing with the Royal Shakespeare Company (1999), and has also starred at Shakespeare's Globe. One of his first screen roles was as Laertes opposite Richard Chamberlain's Hamlet (1970).
On television he is perhaps best known for his role as Captain Triggers in the 1970s World War I adventure series, Wings. After years of bit parts on British television, he gained a new audience when he appeared regularly opposite John Thaw in Kavanagh Q.C. as the chauvinistic and pretentious barrister Jeremy Aldermarten QC during the 1990s. He has appeared in numerous TV adaptations of classic works, including Our Mutual Friend, Anna Karenina, A Dance to the Music of Time and Little Dorrit.
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