Rufus Jones

Birthday: 1975-05-17
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

Rufus Jones (born 1975) is an English actor known for his appearances on television which include David Wilkes in W1A, Dr. Foggerty in Hunderby, Tom in Camping, and Peter in Home (which he also wrote). Jones began his career as one fifth of the comedy group Dutch Elm Conservatoire.

On television, he is known for playing Doctor Foggerty in Julia Davis's award-winning dark comedy Hunderby, producer David Wilkes in W1A, and Miles Mollison in the BBC television mini series The Casual Vacancy. He also played Terry Jones in the BBC Four BAFTA-nominated Holy Flying Circus, Cosmo in comedy-drama Stag, and Tom in Julia Davis's Camping. In 2006, Jones appeared as the journalist in series 2 episode 3 of the BBC comedy Extras.

Other credits include Mongrels (in which he voiced Nelson the fox), William & Sinclair for Sky Atlantic's Common Ground season, Episodes, It's Kevin, The Wrong Mans, Fresh Meat (series 2), Toast of London, House of Fools, Extras, Lead Balloon, Peep Show, Crooked House, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Love Soup, Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, Green Green Grass, My Family, Losing It, Secret Smile, White Teeth, and Edge of Heaven. In 2011, Jones starred in the one-off BBC Christmas show Lapland.

His 2013 role as Nick Edwards, the slimy opposing candidate to Bob Servant, brought him recognition in the cult BBC Four Neil Forsyth comedy Bob Servant.

Jones has written for Angelos Epithemiou, Mitchell & Webb, the MTV series Fur TV, Jon Culshaw and many others. He was script consultant on E4's Cardinal Burns.

In 2012, he began portraying entrepreneur James Reed in adverts for reed.co.uk.

As a voiceover artist, Jones has worked on numerous commercials, as well as games such as Fable III, Killzone and Xenoblade Chronicles. In 2016, he joined the voice cast of Thomas & Friends, as the voice of Flying Scotsman. Most recently, he has voiced Vermis in Robozuna for ITV/Netflix, various characters in Sadie Sparks for Disney, Constantin in 101 Dalmatian Street for Disney, and is the narrator for the Little Princess.

In 2016, he played Coulson in the BAFTA nominated psychological thriller The Ghoul (directed by Gareth Tunley), and starred as Richard in the West End production of Dead Funny at the Vaudeville Theatre in London.

More recent film work includes Paddington and Woody in The Foreigner with Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan. He also played Bernard Delfont in Stan & Ollie with Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, released in January 2019.

In 2018, Jones starred with Anna Paquin in Flack for Pop/W channel, released in February 2019. He also filmed Home, a 6 part series for Channel 4, that he also wrote, which began airing in March 2019. A second series was broadcast in February and March 2020.[13]

Credits

Year Title Character
2025-12-19 Christmas Karma
2025-02-19 Cleaner Geoffrey Milton
2023-12-06 Wonka Jenkins
2022-11-17 The People We Hate at the Wedding Tom
2022-02-11 Little Darlings Mike
2021-12-03 Silent Night Tony
2021-04-15 Creation Stories Bank Manager
2018-12-28 Stan & Ollie Bernard Delfont
2018-07-20 Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie Flying Scotsman (voice)
2018-04-19 Backstage At Live Aid Elton John
2017-12-29 Eric, Ernie and Me John Ammonds
2017-09-28 The Foreigner Ian Wood
2017-08-04 The Ghoul Coulson
2016-05-21 Thomas & Friends: The Great Race The Flying Scotsman (voice)
2015-03-27 Bill Sir Walter Raleigh
2014-11-24 Paddington Third Geographer
2014-01-01 Honeysuckle Simon
2011-12-24 Lapland Julian
2011-10-19 Holy Flying Circus Terry Jones
2010-01-24 Rock & Chips Golden Egg Waiter
2006-09-13 Losing It Dr. Hall
2004-05-15 Honorable Men Tyrone Powers