Personal History
Jones was born in Poole, Dorset, the son of John David Jones and his wife Gwendolen Agnes Langworthy (Ricketts). When married to British actress Sheila Allen, he had two sons, Jesse, of Brooklyn, New York, and Joseph, of Tucson, Arizona, and together they had three grandchildren. After his divorce from his wife, Jones's partner of the last 20 years was photographer Joyce Tenneson, and they lived in New York at the time of his death.
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