William Frank Jones

 William Frank Jones, better known as Christopher Jones (August 18, 1941 – January 31, 2014)

Jones (adopting the stage name Christopher) made his Broadway debut on December 17, 1961, in Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana, directed by Frank Corsaro and starring Shelley Winters. Moving to Hollywood, Jones was cast in the title role of ABC's television series The Legend of Jesse James, which ran for 34 episodes in the 1965–66 season. When the series ended, he accepted the title role in the 1968 movie Chubasco (1968). Jones's next acting role, was rock star and presidential aspirant Max Frost in the influential cult film Wild in the Streets (1968), co-starring Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook, and a young Richard Pryor. After two films in Europe with Pia Degermark (The Looking Glass War and Brief Season, both 1970), Jones was cast by director David Lean in Ryan's Daughter (1970). After many difficulties with Director David Lean, as well as a car accident while filming, Jones decided to leave the film industry after the picture was finished. Later on, Jones was offered the part of Zed in Pulp Fiction (1994) by director Quentin Tarantino, but he turned it down. He made a final screen appearance in crime comedy Mad Dog Time (1996). He died on January 31, 2014, at the age of 72, owing to complications arising from gallbladder cancer. Jones was married three times, and had seven children. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.