Simon Jones as an upset Arthur Dent, watching his home being demolished in the first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC TV series.

Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950 in Charlton Park, Wiltshire) is an English actor, most famous for his appearances in the television and radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which he played the lead role of Arthur Dent in 1981. Its author, Douglas Adams, later said that he wrote the part of Arthur Dent with Simon Jones in mind. Image File history File links In the BBC TV series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent is a little upset to watch his home being demolished. ... Image File history File links In the BBC TV series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent is a little upset to watch his home being demolished. ... The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,[1] was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adamss The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on BBC Two. ... is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Information Species Human Gender Male Age 30 (approx. ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... Information Species Human Gender Male Age 30 (approx. ...

Jones as Sir Walter Raleigh in the Blackadder episode "Potato"

Jones also appeared in various other TV series, including the second series of Blackadder (playing Sir Walter Raleigh) and Brideshead Revisited (in which he played the Earl of Brideshead, the heir to the Marquess of Marchmain), and films, including Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, and Green Card. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the sixteenth-century explorer. ... For other uses, see Blackadder (disambiguation). ... Potato is the third episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second Season of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. ... This is an episode list of the British sitcom Blackadder. ... For other uses, see Blackadder (disambiguation). ... This article is about the sixteenth-century explorer. ... Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. ... Film may refer to: photographic film a motion picture in academics, the study of motion pictures as an art form a thin skin or membrane, or any covering or coating, whether transparent or opaque a thin layer of liquid, either on a solid or liquid surface or free-standing Film... The Meaning of Life was a Monty Python comedy film made in 1983. ... Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film written by David and Janet Peoples and directed by Terry Gilliam. ... Green Card is a 1990 romantic comedy directed by Peter Weir. ...

Like some of the Pythons, he studied at the University of Cambridge and was a member of the famous Footlights, where he also met Douglas Adams. This led to Jones being cast in Out of the Trees and later The Hitchhiker's Guide and some of the solo projects of the members of Monty Python. Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of the creators of Monty Pythons Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... The ADC Theatre is the home of the Footlights. ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... Out of the Trees was a television sketch show pilot written by Graham Chapman, Douglas Adams and Bernard McKenna and broadcast on BBC 2. ...

Jones is also a voice actor and audiobook presenter:

• The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul for Simon and Schuster Audioworks for the US market
• Star Trek: Cacophony, playing Lt. Commander Stewart Mulligan in an original "Captain Sulu Adventures" audio program, again for Simon and Schuster
• The Salmon of Doubt, for New Millennium Audio
• Douglas Adams at the BBC, for BBC Audio

In 2003, he reprised his role as Arthur Dent in a new radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The same year he was involved in the filming of the movie version of the first novel, making a brief cameo appearance in the role of the holographic Magrathean answering machine/automated defense system. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul is a 1988 science fiction detective novel by Douglas Adams. ... Hikaru Sulu, played by George Takei, is a character in the original Star Trek series, the first six Star Trek films and one episode of Star Trek: Voyager. ... The front cover of the UK first hardcover edition of The Salmon of Doubt. ... The front cover of the booklet included with Douglas Adams at the BBC. Douglas Adams at the BBC is a three CD set released by BBC Audio in 2004 (ISBN 0563494042). ... The terms Tertiary Phase, Quandary Phase and Quintessential Phase describe the radio adaptations of the books Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish and Mostly Harmless recorded in 2003 and 2004 by Above the Title Productions for BBC Radio 4. ... The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ... This article is about the photographic technique. ... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...

His 2006 audio book reading of Mitch Cullin's A Slight Trick of the Mind won the Audio Publishers Association's 2006 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction. Cassette recording of Patrick OBrians The Mauritius Command An audio book is a recording of the contents of a book read aloud. ... Mitch Cullin (born March 23, 1968 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) is an American writer of Scotch-Irish and Cherokee descent. ... A Slight Trick of the Mind is the sixth novel by American author Mitch Cullin. ... The Audie Awards (or Audies) are annually bestowed for outstanding audiobooks. ...

External links

• Simon Jones at the Internet Movie Database
• BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Simon Jones