Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) is an English actor, most famous for his appearances in the television and radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which he played the lead role of Arthur Dent in 1981. Its author, Douglas Adams, later said that he wrote the part of Arthur Dent with Simon Jones in mind.
Jones also appeared in various other TV series, including the second series of Blackadder (playing Sir Walter Raleigh) and Brideshead Revisited (in which he played the Earl of Brideshead, the heir to the Marquess of Marchmain), and films, including Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, and Green Card.
Like some of the Pythons, he studied at the University of Cambridge and was a member of the famous Footlights, where he also met Douglas Adams. This led to Jones being cast in Out of the Trees and later The Hitchhiker's Guide and some of the solo projects of the members of Monty Python.
Jones is also a voice actor and audiobook presenter:
In 2003, he reprised his role as Arthur Dent in a new radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The same year he was involved in the filming of the movie version of the first novel, making a brief cameo appearance in the role of the holographic Magrathean answering machine/automated defense system.
His 2006 audio book reading of Mitch Cullin's A Slight Trick of the Mind won the Audio Publishers Association's 2006 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction.
Simon Philip Jones MBE (born 25 December 1978 in Swansea, Glamorgan) is a Welsh cricketer who plays for Worcestershire County Cricket Club and England. His father, Jeff Jones, played cricket for Glamorgan & England in the 1960s.
Simon Jones (born Simon Robin David Jones 29 May 1972 in Liverpool blank">http://www.musicsaves.org/verve/interviews/37.shtml) is an English bass player. He played bass and provided backing vocals for the English band, _The Verve.
Most of the rhythm aspects of the Verve's albums, particularly the renowned track "Bitter Sweet Symphony" were based around the complex songwriting of the band, supported by the solid rhythm tracks created by Jones, often in the studio on a metallic Red Aria Pro II RBS bass, ultimately played live on his Fender Jazz bass guitar. The Aria has always played a significant part in the creation of The Verve's songs.
Away from the musical side of The Verve, Jones is the only other band member other than the band's main mouthpiece, lead singer Richard Ashcroft, who tends to speak publicly and in interviews. Most notably, he, along with Ashcroft, made a speech at the 2007 Q Awards as they won a classic album award for their 1997 album Urban Hymns. He thanked the band member's wives and children and also thanked former Verve guitarist Simon Tong, who wasn't included in the newly reformed Verve line up. He also did an interview on Zane Lowe's BBC radio show after the band's 2007 reformation and he also appeared alone and alongside Ashcroft in a handful of Verve documentaries and other miscellaneous interviews throughout the 1990's.
After the break up of The Verve in 1999, Jones would later re-emerge playing bass and writing songs for the short lived band The Shining, who former Verve band mate Simon Tong also played with. They would release just one album in 2002 called True Skies.
In 2003 Jones was the recording bassist for Howie Day on Day's second LP Stop All The World Now on Epic Records.
Since 2004 Jones has been an official member of the backing band for Cathy Davey.
In November 2005 he performed with the Gorillaz live band playing guitar at the Manchester Opera House as part of the Manchester International Festival again alongside fellow The Verve member Simon Tong.
In June 2007, he rejoined The Verve in their reunion.
