Donald Jones (actor)
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Biography
Born in Harlem, New York Jones originally trained to be an advertising designer.[1] 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,"[2] a Dutch hit and now one of the standards in the musical comedy genre. This made Jones the first black star in the Netherlands.[2]
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.[2] 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.[1] Their son, Template:Ill (born 1963),[3] went on to become an actor and comedian.[2]
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.[1]
References
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