Claude Earl Jones (April 29, 1933 - November 25, 2019) appeared in the role of Captain Elias, a corrupt prison camp warden, in the Season 4 episode of Quantum Leap titled "Unchained".
Career[]
A seasoned professional Actor/Director with more than 50 years experience, he appeared in and over 150 plays. and also directed over 75 plays and musicals. He as made notable appearances on the bigsreen in such films as Thunder And Lightning (1977), Impulse (1984), Hollywood Zap (1989) and The Re-Animator (1989). he has had notable appearances on Battlestar: Galactica, The Dukes of Hazzard, T.J. Hooker, Little House on the Prairie, Simon & Simon, Seinfeld, and The A-Team. In the 1950s Claude, who got his professional acting start at age 17, trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, along with such noted future star big-screen actors as Dustin Hoffman, and Gene Hackman,[1]
Personal life / Death[]
In the late 1960s and the 1970s, Claude was the Drama instructor at Ganesha High School in Pomona, CA.
Claude and his wife, author Nancy Langdon Jones, whom he married on New Year's Day 1972, lived for many years in Claremont, CA; they had four children together. He died on November 25, 2019 at age 86 of dementia.
References[]
- ↑ Claude Earl Jones Galactica TV interview. Galactica TV (February 21, 2007). Retrieved on April 19, 2016.
