Peter Jones

Peter Jones

Birthday: 1920-06-12

Place of Birth: Wem, Shropshire, England, UK

Biography: Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones (12 June 1920 - 10 April 2000) was a distinguished British actor and radio personality known for his distinctive voice and narration. He gained recognition for his role as The Book in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," providing the voice of the eponymous guidebook in both the radio series and subsequent adaptations. Jones's soothing and authoritative voice lent a unique charm to the character, guiding audiences through the whimsical and absurd universe created by Douglas Adams. His contributions to the series as the voice of The Book became iconic and memorable for fans of the series.

Movies

Nearly a Nasty Accident
Nearly a Nasty Accident

The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he ...

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Carry On Doctor
Carry On Doctor

Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over ma...

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Carry On England
Carry On England

Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence b...

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School for Scoundrels
School for Scoundrels

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant...

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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure acros...

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Press for Time
Press for Time

Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime ...

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The Browning Version
The Browning Version

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public ...

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Forbidden
Forbidden

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in bu...

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Home to Danger
Home to Danger

A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate....

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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
24 Hours of a Woman's Life

A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from h...

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The Mansion of Madness
The Mansion of Madness

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then ...

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Miss Robin Hood
Miss Robin Hood

In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds hi...

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John and Julie
John and Julie

The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth....

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Cairo Road
Cairo Road

In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs opera...

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The Long Memory
The Long Memory

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about ...

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The Sandwich Man
The Sandwich Man

A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters....

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The Yellow Balloon
The Yellow Balloon

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death....

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Never Let Go
Never Let Go

John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods...

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Romanoff and Juliet
Romanoff and Juliet

Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the c...

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A Day to Remember
A Day to Remember

A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of th...

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The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon

In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days a...

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Private's Progress
Private's Progress

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of t...

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The Franchise Affair
The Franchise Affair

An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women....

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Angels One Five
Angels One Five

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front ...

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Just Like a Woman
Just Like a Woman

Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Sci...

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Tender Loving Care
Tender Loving Care

Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosph...

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Innocents in Paris
Innocents in Paris

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend....

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Seven Nights in Japan
Seven Nights in Japan

Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and...

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Milk
Milk

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy fa...

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Confessions of a Pop Performer
Confessions of a Pop Performer

Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to g...

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The Magic Box
The Magic Box

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...

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For Better, for Worse
For Better, for Worse

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are no...

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Operation Bullshine
Operation Bullshine

During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is fille...

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Smashing Time
Smashing Time

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and ...

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The Return of the Pink Panther
The Return of the Pink Panther

The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catc...

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Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

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The Good Beginning
The Good Beginning

After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the ...

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Chance of a Lifetime
Chance of a Lifetime

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the ...

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Last Holiday
Last Holiday

George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On hi...

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Albert R.N.
Albert R.N.

The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attemp...

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On Such a Night
On Such a Night

An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne ...

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Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England i...

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Adventures in Space and Time
Adventures in Space and Time

A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, trans...

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The Children Of Dynmouth
The Children Of Dynmouth

The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the ...

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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find them...

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Father Came Too!
Father Came Too!

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling fathe...

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I See a Dark Stranger
I See a Dark Stranger

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her...

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Danger Within
Danger Within

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers f...

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Dead of Night
Dead of Night

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his rec...

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Fanny by Gaslight
Fanny by Gaslight

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father...

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Hot Millions
Hot Millions

A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming t...

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Vice Versa
Vice Versa

Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone...

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The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

A documentary looking at the making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), including inter...

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The Bulldog Breed
The Bulldog Breed

Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After ...

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A Stitch in Time
A Stitch in Time

An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after c...

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High Treason
High Treason

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring....

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Waiting
Waiting

The NHS Hillcroft Medical Centre has a vacancy for a practise manager. The receptionist Beryl Oldham...

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