Ken Jones(1938-1993)
- Actor
He was born to Georgia Wood Jones and Henry Leon Jones. He attended
Fremont High school in Los Angeles, California. He was hired as a
reporter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper in 1954. He
became a disc jockey at KBCA and KGFJ radio and a news director for
KDAY radio in L.A. in 1962. He worked as a production assistant for the
West Coast edition of the Huntley-Brinkley Report from 1963-65 which he
left to become a regular newscaster for KRLA radio in Pasadena. A
position he held until 1967 when he was hired as a Feature Reporter at
KTTV-TV in Los Angeles where he received an Emmy Award for a one-hour
news special. His growing prominence led to numerous TV and film roles
including The Candidate (1972) and The Young Runaways (1978).
