"Christopher Jones was an enigma and a deeply troubled soul," she told mirror.co.uk from her home in West Sussex. Sebring, meanwhile, had hit his professional momentum"invent [ing] a whole new. When she lived in Italy, she was voted "Homecoming Queen" of her high school. When she was brutally murdered by members of Charles Mansons gang in Los Angeles in August 1969, Jones was devastated and gave up acting, McKenna said. The glass was replaced with plexiglass. He has managed to cram an awful lot into his life, including a marriage to actress Susan Strasberg (daughter of acting coach, Lee Strasberg), countless lovers (including actresses Olivia Hussey and Susan George, "who came up to my apartment when I was staying in London and the next day moved her toothbrush in, so I had to say, no way! "It was a difficult shoot, and after Ryan's Daughter I gave up acting because I realised I hated it." You have long been my film idol and inspired me in Ryans Daughter with the portrayal of Major Doryan. TO the world, Sharon Tate will always be the pregnant movie starlet cut down in her prime by the evil Manson Family. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. I wastired, man. Jones died on Friday at the Los Alamos Medical Center in California. Jones began an affair with his costar, Pia Degermark (star ofElvira Madigan[1967]), and a dalliance with Susan George, who played his girlfriend inThe Looking Glass War. In her memoir, she recalled how "we were talking and his eyes glazed over, and he punched me in the stomach". He had excitement. I shouldnt drink, but occasionally Ill pour shots into the syringe, he confessed. And dont come out!, Jones didnt attend the premiere ofRyans Daughterin 1970. We were on the patio, waiting for Sharon, when suddenly she appeared. The call came to the hotel in Ireland where Jones was staying. Actress Olivia Hussey has revealed that she was raped by her actor ex-boyfriend in the same home where Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's 'family' just months earlier. Now aged 66, Christopher has retained his looks, although it is clear that the intervening years haven't always been kind to him. 'I said to Sharon, 'Rudi said we're going to be best friends',' Hussey said of a phone call they had. Mr. Jones told an interviewer in 2007 that he had been having an affair with the actress Sharon Tate when she and four others were viciously killed on Aug. 9, 1969, by members of the Charles Manson cult in the California home of Ms. Tates husband, the director Roman Polanski, who was away. But throughout all this, there has been one aspect of Sharon Tate's story of which even Polanski has not been fully aware - her relationship with the actor Christopher Jones. Christopher Jones was a brief cult star of the late '60s counterculture era and a would-be rebel successor to James Dean had he wanted it. //