Glen Jones was a studio employee and actor circa 1914-1915.
Glen Jones
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on 2 Thanhouser films. None is online, and no print of any is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
These have no online copy. Each page says what is known about where a print is held.
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 186 words.
Glen Jones, a black man, was a studio employee and actor with Thanhouser during the 1914-1915 period. At one time he worked closely with Mignon Anderson, and when he became the father of a child in 1915, the infant girl was named Mignon Anderson Jones in honor of the actress. Many years later, grown up and known by her married name, Mignon Anderson Porteé, she attended “Thanhouser Night,” a retrospective of Thanhouser films and history conducted by the author at Iona College, New Rochelle, on October 7, 1988. She related that for many years Mignon Anderson sent her letters and gifts.
Note: Could the following pertain to the Thanhouser player? Variety, November 6, 1929, carried this account: “Dallas, Nov. 5: Ordered out of his automobile by two masked men claiming to be prohibition agents, Glen Jones, concession operator with the Wortham Shows, was fatally shot as his terrified wife huddled in the car, untouched. Police advanced a revenge theory, as neither money nor jewels were taken. Shooting occurred near El Paso, where the Wortham Shows played.”
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “JONES, Glen.” thanhouser.org/research/people/glen-jones/