Overview
- He died on Jan. 16 at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles after a brief hospital stay, and a private memorial is planned.
- His death was confirmed by his publicist to TheWrap and by friend and collaborator George Saadi to Variety.
- Jones wrote and directed 1992’s Leprechaun, starring Warwick Davis and a then-early-career Jennifer Aniston, leading to multiple sequels and later reboots.
- He began in animation with Filmation, DePatie-Freleng and Hanna-Barbera, contributing to series such as Super Friends and Scooby-Doo.
- He later worked in live-action TV with producers Glen A. Larson and Stephen J. Cannell on shows including The A-Team and Knight Rider, served as Superboy showrunner, and directed films such as Rumpelstiltskin and Scorned.