✦Never took any acting lessons, it was all about experience.
✦His story of how quickly he got his agent and a job in Broadway in mere ten days was featured in "Ripley's Believe It or Not".
✦Was the roommate of Al Gore, the vice president of Bill Clinton back in Harvard, and later on author Erich Segal made the characters in "Love Story" (1970) based on them.
✦His son, Austin Leonard Jones, played as his son in TV movie "Yuri Nosenko, KGB" (1986).
✦Was appointed to play the role Snake Plissken in John Carpenter's "Escape from New York" (1981) but in the end Kurt Russell claimed it.