Jones also starred in Three in the Attic (1968) as a man who gets his comeuppance from three girls who discover hes been three-timing them. Everyone has regrets, but I dont have many that I want to talk about. "I worried professionally in case I might have to work with Roman in the future. He followedThe Looking Glass WarwithA Brief Season(1969), filmed in Italy. Christopher Jones, an heir apparent to James Dean who starred in such films as The Looking Glass War and Ryans Daughter before quitting show business at the height of his brief but dazzling career, has died. // ]]> (He later discounted his admissions to Des Barres, telling Harvey Chartrand that he was drunk throughout the interview. She saysJones started abusing her soon after they began dating in the late 1960s, Hussey and Jones had broken up when she planned to move into the guesthouse of the home Sharon Tate was renting with her husband Roman Polanski prior to the Manson crime spree, Hussey had been planning to help Sharon Tate and Roman Polanksi (left) with their soon-to-born baby when Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's 'family'. "Christopher Jones was an enigma and a deeply troubled soul," she told mirror.co.uk from her home in West Sussex. The directorsDavid Lean and Renato Castellaniwere both Svengalis, real puppet masters. Jones grew up an orphan in Jackson, Tenn. When he did find me with the Pulp Fiction script, I had no interest in acting or in the part he was offering. My girlfriend at the time read it and said: Youre not doing thisits disgusting, he told another interviewer. Jones next and final screen appearance would come in the comedic crime movie Mad Dog Time (1996), directed by Larry Bishop, son of comic actorJoey Bishop. Rachael M Blessinger. His stardom peaked in 1969 when David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago, cast him as the romantic lead in Ryans Daughter. Mr. Jones portrayed a brooding British army officer who becomes involved with an Irish woman (Ms. Published: 13:52 EST, 25 July 2018 | Updated: 15:27 EST, 25 July 2018. Given the evil manner of Tate's death, some of Jones's recollections about his former lover take on an eerie significance. amzn_assoc_ad_type = "product_link"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "worlcinepara-20"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_placement = "B0007R4T3A"; amzn_assoc_asins = "B0007R4T3A"; amzn_assoc_show_border = true; amzn_assoc_link_opens_in_new_window = true; "After I'd been with her, I came back to the hotel and tried Sharon's door which was open. "I knew that she was married to Roman and I had no intention of splitting them up. He wanted to be there, the way he never had it, she said. At the end of the shoot he was taken off to a mental hospital.". When the series ended, he accepted the title role in the movie Chubasco (1967) with Susan Strasberg playing his character's lover/wife. More pertinently though, it was while Jones was in Ireland during the year-long filming schedule that he received the news of his former lover Sharon Tate's murder. The affair has tragic consequences for Doryan, a veteran of World War I who is suffering from shell shock, and it was Ryan's Daughter which brought Jones to the attention of the British cinema-going public at large. Inclement weather and Leans perfectionism stretched principal photography to a year. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Actor Christopher Jones has revealed he had a relationship with actress Sharon Tate shortly before she was found murdered in her Los Angeles home. Jones came to Hollywood and landed a gig as the notorious outlaw in The Legend of Jesse James, but the Western, facing steep competition on Monday nights from The Lucy Show on CBS and Dr. Kildare on NBC, lasted just one season, airing from September 1965 to May 1966. ', she said: 'Don't worry about Roman.' His mother died when he was 19.[2]. I couldnt make sense of it, that someone that beautiful and young had to die like that., Christopher Jones was an enigma and a deeply troubled soul, Miles toldmirror.co.ukafter his death. I was very loyal. //