British director David (Hugh) Jones died of a heart attack in his adopted home of Rockport, Maine, on 18 September 2008. Born 19 February 1934 in Poole, Dorset, England, he was a stage director with England's Royal Shakespeare Company and on Broadway, a film director of (among others) the plays of Maxim Gorky, and a television director on a wide variety of projects. Some of his directorial work is seen in Law & Order, Chicago Hope, The Practice, and 84 Charing Cross Road.
His genre projects include: Ghost Whisperer (2006), A Christmas Carol (1999, starring Patrick Stewart), Now and Again (1999), Fantasy Island (1998), and Early Edition (1996).
Jones is survived by his sister, two sons, and his longtime companion, Joyce Tenneson (his marriage to actress Sheila Allen, the mother of his sons, ended in divorce).
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