Born February 3, 1910· Tate County, Mississippi, USA
† Died September 7, 2006
15Roles★ 6.6Average rating
Emerging from the Mississippi Delta, where he left school early to work as a sharecropper and sparred with champion Joe Louis as Battling Bill Stovall, Jones found his theatrical footing after moving to Chicago and then New York, where a WPA assignment introduced him to poet-playwright Langston Hughes, who cast him in the 1938 play Don't You Want to Be Free?. His screen debut came as lead detectiv…
