Christopher Jones: Christopher Jones. Actor: Ryan's Daughter. Christopher Jones was a brief cult star of the late '60s counterculture era and a would-be rebel successor to James Dean had he wanted it. Born William Franklin Jones amid rather impoverished surroundings to a grocery clerk in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1941, his artist mother had to be institutionalized when Chris was 4. She died in a mental facility in 1960, and this was always...
Known For: Ryan's Daughter (Major Doryan), The Looking Glass War (Leiser), Wild in the Streets (Max Frost), Three in the Attic (Paxton Quigley)