Glyn Jones (born 27 April 1931, aged 81), is a South African actor, writer and director.
During late 1964, David Whitaker, the story editor on the BBC series Doctor Who contacted Glyn Jones, whom he had met at a dinner party, with a view to Jones penning an adventure for the programme. By the time Whitaker was replaced by Dennis Spooner, Jones had been commissioned to write The Space Museum. Jones was later dismayed by Spooner's editing of his scripts, which excised much of the humorous content. Spooner felt that such material was inappropriate in what he envisioned as a high-concept science-fiction story. This would be Jones' only contribution to Doctor Who as a writer: a second submission in 1970 being rejected by then-script editor Terrance Dicks.
However, Jones would go on to play Krans in 1975's The Sontaran Experiment. This was a rare example of a Doctor Who writer also acting on the programme.
Jones is the earliest surviving credited writer of the series and one of only two living writers from the Hartnell era of the programme, the other being Donald Tosh.
Jones' other writing credits are A King's Story (1965), The Magnificent Six and ½ (1968), script editor for the children's TV series Here Come the Double Deckers (1970), and The Gold Robbers (1969). Also a number of stage plays produced in England and America, Thriller of the Year and Beautiful Forever published by Samuel French Ltd, London, and Red in the Morning by Samuel French in New York City. Rosemary, Oh Brother!, Champagne Charlie, Peter Pan - A Musical Fantasy & The 88, all published by DCG Media Group.
In 2006 he created a new private eye by name Thornton King; charming, urbane and a little bit accident prone and in 2007 the first Thornton King book, Dead on Time was published by Raider International. Since then he has written 4 more in the series; Just in Case, Dead on Target, The Cinelli Vases, and still to be published Celluloid and Tinsel.
Other prose writings include No Official Umbrella (his autobiography), The Journeys We Make, & Angel.
Famous quotes containing the words jones and/or african:
“The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.”
—William Jones (1746–1794)
“I think it’s unfair for people to try to make successful blacks feel guilty for not feeling guilty.... We’re unique in that we’re not supposed to enjoy the things we’ve worked so hard for.”
—Patricia Grayson, African American administrator. As quoted in Time magazine, p. 59 (March 13, 1989)