Donald Jones (actor)

Template:Short description {{#invoke:Other people|otherPeople}} Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Donald Towe Jones (January 24, 1932 – November 5, 2004) was an American-Dutch actor, singer and dancer; born in Harlem, he went to the Netherlands in his early twenties and became one of the first Dutch black stars.

Biography

Born in Harlem, New York Jones originally trained to be an advertising designer.<ref name=lies/> He moved to the Netherlands in 1954 with a dance troupe. He was hired by a cabaret company and began a career singing, acting, and dancing. He was hired for the very first Dutch television show, the 1950s television hit Template:Ill (written by Annie M.G. Schmidt), in which he played Dinky Henderson, who sings the Template:Ill song "Ik zou je het liefste in een doosje willen doen,"<ref name=vk/> a Dutch hit and now one of the standards in the musical comedy genre. This made Jones the first black star in the Netherlands.<ref name=vk>Template:Cite news</ref>

Jones played in many Dutch shows, movies (Grijpstra & De Gier, 1979), and theatrical productions, and in television shows such as Template:Ill and Pipo de Clown.<ref name=vk/> Jones was one of the artists who recorded the song Shalom from Holland (written by Simon Hammelburg and Ron Klipstein) as a token of solidarity to the Israeli people, threatened by missiles from Iraq, during the first Gulf War in 1991.

Personal life

He married Dutch actress Template:Ill; they were the first well-known mixed couple in the country.<ref name=lies/> Their son, Template:Ill (born 1963),<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> went on to become an actor and comedian.<ref name=vk/>

Death

Donald Jones died in Amsterdam of a heart attack on November 5, 2004, at the age of 72. He was cremated and the ashes were placed at the Westgaarde Cemetery.<ref name=lies>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref>

External links

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