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name: "David Hugh Jones"
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tmdb_id: 78514
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "19 February 1934"
died: "18 September 2008"
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updated: "2026-09-23T13:44:29.500830+00:00"
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# David Hugh Jones

## Identity

David Hugh Jones

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-hugh-jones
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-hugh-jones
- **IMDb ID:** nm0427880
- **TMDB ID:** 78514
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1174792
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1174792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427880/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78514

Director. Born 19 February 1934 in Poole, Dorset, England, UK. Died 18 September 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 19 February 1934, Poole, Dorset, England, UK
- **Died:** 18 September 2008
- **Active:** 1999–2005
- **Also known as:** David Jones, Hugh Jones
- **Frequently works with:** [Alex Chapple](https://film.one/person/alex-chapple.md), [Chad Lowe](https://film.one/person/chad-lowe.md), [Daniel Sackheim](https://film.one/person/daniel-sackheim.md), [David Grossman](https://film.one/person/david-grossman.md), [Donna Deitch](https://film.one/person/donna-deitch.md), [Janet Tamaro](https://film.one/person/janet-tamaro.md), [Kate Woods](https://film.one/person/kate-woods.md), [Marita Grabiak](https://film.one/person/marita-grabiak.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1174792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427880/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78514

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Bones*](https://film.one/tv/bones.md) (70)

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## Biography

David Hugh Jones (19 February 1934 – 18 September 2008) was a British stage, television and film director. Born in Poole, Dorset, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and began his career in television with the BBC arts series Monitor in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

He served as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre from 1973 to 1978. Jones made his feature film debut with Betrayal (1983) and later directed 84 Charing Cross Road (1987). His television work included episodes of series such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Bones (2005), The Practice (1997) and 7th Heaven (2003), as well as the television film A Christmas Carol (1999).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bones* (2005), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md)

## Complete filmography (53)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ghost Whisperer* (2005), series, Director
- *Bones* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md)
- *Medium* (2005), series, Director
- *Keen Eddie* (2003), series, Director
- *Hack* (2002), series, Director
- *The Education of Max Bickford* (2001), series, Director
- *Big Apple* (2001), series, Director
- *The $treet* (2000), series, Director
- *Custody of the Heart* (2000), Director
- *A Christmas Carol* (1999), Director
- *Now and Again* (1999), series, Director
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, Director
- *The Confession* (1999), Director
- *Fantasy Island* (1998), series, Director
- *An Unexpected Life* (1998), Director
- *Time to Say Goodbye?* (1997), Director
- *The Practice* (1997), series, Director
- *Early Edition* (1996), series, Director
- *7th Heaven* (1996), series, Director
- *For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal* (1996), Director
- *Sophie and the Moonhanger* (1996), Director
- *Message for Posterity* (1994), Director
- *Is There Life Out There?* (1994), Director
- *Chicago Hope* (1994), series, Director
- *And Then There Was One* (1994), Director
- *The Trial* (1993), Director
- *Picket Fences* (1992), series, Director
- *Performance* (1991), series, Director
- *Fire in the Dark* (1991), Director
- *In My Defence* (1991), series, Director
- *The Trials of Rosie O'Neill* (1990), series, Director
- *Jacknife* (1989), Director
- *The Christmas Wife* (1988), Director
- *The Devil's Disciple* (1987), Director
- *84 Charing Cross Road* (1987), Director
- *Theatre Night* (1985), series, Director
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Director
- *Pericles, Prince of Tyre* (1984), Director
- *Betrayal* (1983), Director
- *The Merry Wives of Windsor* (1982), Director
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, Director
- *Look Back in Anger* (1980), Director
- *The BBC Television Shakespeare* (1978), series, Director
- *Langrishe, Go Down* (1978), Director
- *Ice Age* (1978), Director
- *BBC2 Play of the Week* (1977), series, Director
- *An Artist's Story* (1974), Director
- *Wessex Tales* (1973), series, Director
- *2nd House* (1973), series, Director
- *Review* (1969), series, as Presenter
- *Omnibus* (1967), series, Director
- *BBC Play of the Month* (1965), series, Director
- *Monitor* (1958), series, Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- National Board of Review Award for Best Film 1983: National Board of Review Award for Best Film (won), for *Betrayal*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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