Christopher Jones

He appeared later that same year with Yvette Mimieux, in the sex comedy Three in the Attic. Jones also became friends with actress Sharon Tate and her husband Roman Polanski. He claimed later to have had an affair with Tate (while she was pregnant with Polanski's child), and to have had a premonition of her death, before she was murdered by members of the Manson family.

After two films in Europe with Pia Degermark (The Looking Glass War and Brief Season), Jones was cast by movie director David Lean in Ryan's Daughter. Jones proved out of his element working with Lean. The two men were frustrated by each other. To make matters worse, production of the film took twelve months instead of the expected six. This and the death of Sharon Tate took a personal toll on Jones, who returned from Ireland to California after filming ended (staying for a time in the caretaker's cottage behind the house where Tate had died), and abandoned his acting career. Read Less