{"id":239030,"date":"2025-09-19T13:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239030\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:42:25","slug":"john-christopher-jones-an-actors-actor-who-lived-with-parkinsons-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239030\/","title":{"rendered":"John Christopher Jones, an Actor\u2019s Actor Who Lived With Parkinson\u2019s, Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/?attachment_id=1804044\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1804044 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1804044\" title=\"Set Design TONY STRAIGESCostume Design ANITA YAVICH Lighting Design JOE NOVAK Sound Design MATT STINE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JCJ.jpg\" alt=\"Set Design TONY STRAIGES Costume Design ANITA YAVICH Lighting Design JOE NOVAK Sound Design MATT STINE\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\"  \/><\/a>John Christopher Jones in Nathan the Wise at Classic Stage Company in 2016 <br \/>(\u00a9 Richard Termine)<\/p>\n<p>John Christopher Jones, an actor\u2019s actor who was a founding member of Shakespeare &amp; Company, died Monday, September 15 after a long battle with Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019s notable Broadway credits include Simon Gray\u2019s Otherwise Engaged, directed by Harold Pinter, David Rabe\u2019s Hurlyburly, Jose Quintero\u2019s revival of\u00a0The Iceman Cometh starring Jason Robards,\u00a0The Goodbye Girl,\u00a0Beauty and the Beast (as Cogsworth),\u00a0Democracy,\u00a0Heartbreak House, and many others.<\/p>\n<p>A regular off-Broadway, his credits range from Picasso At The Lapin Agile and\u00a0Fuddy Meers\u00a0to classic titles like\u00a0Nathan the Wise and\u00a0The Seagull.<\/p>\n<p>His translations of The Cherry Orchard and A Month in the Country ran at Classic Stage Company; the former won a Lortel Award for Best Revival. His translations also include Chekhov\u2019s\u00a0The Seagull,\u00a0Uncle Vanya,\u00a0Three Sisters, and\u00a0Platonov, as well as B\u00fcchner\u2019s Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena.<\/p>\n<p>At Shakespeare &amp; Company, Jones performed the roles Troilus,\u00a0Antipholus of Ephesus,\u00a0Hal,\u00a0Proteus,\u00a0Mercutio,\u00a0Macbeth,\u00a0Cloten,\u00a0Lavatch,\u00a0Gravedigger,\u00a0Grumio,\u00a0Elbow, and\u00a0Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s in March 2003, Jones worked throughout his illness; his recent appearances include episodes of\u00a0Evil and\u00a0New Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>He was featured in the inspiring documentary Me to Play, which followed him and fellow actor Dan Moran, who also lived with Parkinson\u2019s, as they rehearsed and performed Samuel Beckett\u2019s Endgame at Classic Stage. He and Moran\u2014who died in 2024\u2014first met in 1995, when they shared a dressing room during the Broadway revival of A Month in the Country.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019s survivors include his wife, MaryBeth Coudal, and their three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Christopher Jones in Nathan the Wise at Classic Stage Company in 2016 (\u00a9 Richard Termine) John Christopher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-239030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115231257223843075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}