He has also appeared in some of the solo film projects of the members of Monty Python: Privates on Parade (with John Cleese),[2] American Friends (1991) with Michael Palin.
[1] Jones has appeared in many Broadway plays, including The Real Thing (1985),[7] as Max, Benefactors (1985),[7] as Colin, Getting Married (1991),[4] as Reginald Bridgenorth, Private Lives (1992),[7] as Elyot Chase, The Real Inspector Hound,[7] (as Moon) and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (as Hamlet - which played together in 1992),[4] The School for Scandal (1995),[7] as Joseph Surface, Ring Round the Moon (1999),[4] as Romainville and as Perry Lascoe in Waiting in the Wings (1999).
[7] In 2009, Jones appeared in Blithe Spirit,[1] as Dr. Bradman, supported by Angela Lansbury and Rupert Everett; and in 2018 he portrayed John Rich, in Farinelli and the King co-starring Mark Rylance.
[4] Off-Broadway he has a long list of credits, and was nominated for the 1990 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Privates on Parade.
[4] This was followed by BBC Radio appearances in Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett's Good Omens, directed by Dirk Maggs, and Doctor Who with Tom Baker.
[4] Jones and his son Tim were hit by a car on 8 October 2010; though they suffered only bruises, he had to withdraw from The Actors Company Theatre's production of Václav Havel's Memorandum.