Professor Henry Walton Jones, Sr. is a Scottish fictional character in the Indiana Jones franchise. He is the estranged father of Indiana Jones, who is captured by the Nazis while searching for the Holy Grail to act as bait for Indy.
The character was portrayed by Sean Connery in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Alex Hyde-White cameoed as the younger Henry in the film's prologue (though his face was not seen, and Connery dubbed h...
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Professor Henry Walton Jones, Sr. is a Scottish fictional character in the Indiana Jones franchise. He is the estranged father of Indiana Jones, who is captured by the Nazis while searching for the Holy Grail to act as bait for Indy.
The character was portrayed by Sean Connery in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Alex Hyde-White cameoed as the younger Henry in the film's prologue (though his face was not seen, and Connery dubbed his voice). Lloyd Owen played Jones in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles TV series. The character subsequently made appearances in novels and a comic book.
The father of renowned archaeologist Indiana Jones, Jones Sr. is a professor of medieval literature (he received his degree from the University of Oxford on June 5, 1899) who, according to his son, is "the one the students hope they don't get".
A driven man, Jones Sr. was fascinated by the search for the Holy Grail, keeping all the clues he found regarding its whereabouts in his Grail diary...
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