Actor. He will be best remembered for his role as the ill-fated astronaut 'Lieutenant Thomas Dodge' in film director Franklin J. Schaffner's adventure-science fiction film classic, "Planet Of The Apes" (1968). His character was captured and later stuffed and put on display in the ape's museum where Charlton Heston's character 'George Taylor' later finds him. The film which was released by Twentieth Century Fox on April 3, 1968, also starred Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, James Daly, Woodrow Parfrey, and Robert Gunner as 'John Landon,' told the story of an astronaut crew who crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved. He was born John Alexander Jones in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Pleasant Jones and Helen Church Jones and later served eleven years of military service in the United States Army where he received the rank of Captain. Following his military service, he pursued an acting career and began acting in theatrical stock. He then appeared on television using the stage name of Jeff Burton beginning in the early 1960s making his debut in an episode entitled, "Hot Potato a La Hazel" of the television series, "Hazel" in which he played the role of a policeman in 1964. He continued appearing in television and films usually in other roles of police officers or doctors and would eventually go onto appear in his most notable role that of 'Lieutenant Thomas Dodge' in "Planet Of The Apes" (1968). He also appeared in several Blaxploitation films during the 1970s. Besides, "Hazel," his many other television credits include, "CBS Repertoire Workshop," "Git," "The Fugitive," "The Farmer's Daughter," "Gidget," "The Donna Reed Show," "Love On A Rooftop," "Tarzan," "Batman," "Cowboy In Africa," "Dragnet 1967," "Julia," "My Three Sons," "Bracken's World," "Bewitched," "McCloud," "The Bold Ones: The Lawyers," "The Bill Cosby Show," "Nanny And The Professor," "The Partridge Family," "Night Gallery," "The Manhunter," "The F.B.I.," "Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law," "Roll Out," "The Snoop Sisters," "McMillan & Wife," and "Run, Joe, Run." Besides, "Planet Of The Apes" (1968), his many other film credits include, "Great Gettin' Up Mornin' (1964), "Madame X" (1966), "Gunpoint" (1966), "In Like Flint" (1967), "Sweet Charity" (1969), "The Manhunter" (1972), "The Mad Bomber" (1972), "The Police Connection" (1973), "Coffy" (1973), "The President's Plane Is Missing" (1973), and "Street Sisters (aka Black Hooker)" (1974). His last acting credit was in 1974. In his later years, he supplemented his income by working as a parole department official in Los Angeles, California. He passed away on January 18, 1988, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 63.