Rufus Jones (born 1975) is an English actor known for his appearances on television which include David Wilkes in W1A, Dr. Foggerty in Hunderby, Tom in Camping, and Peter in Home (which he also wrote). Jones began his career as one fifth of the comedy group Dutch Elm Conservatoire.
On television, he is known for playing Doctor Foggerty in Julia Davis's award-winning dark comedy Hunderby, producer David Wilkes in W1A, and Miles Mollison in the BBC television mini series The Casual Vacancy. He also played Terry Jones in the BBC Four BAFTA-nominated Holy Flying Circus, Cosmo in comedy-drama Stag, and Tom in Julia Davis's Camping. In 2006, Jones appeared as the journalist in series 2 episode 3 of the BBC comedy Extras.
Other credits include Mongrels (in which he voiced Nelson the fox), William & Sinclair for Sky Atlantic's Common Ground season, Episodes, It's Kevin, The Wrong Mans, Fresh Meat (series 2), Toast of London, House of Fools, Extras, Lead Balloon, Peep Show, Crooked House, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Love Soup, Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, Green Green Grass, My Family, Losing It, Secret Smile, White Teeth, and Edge of Heaven. In 2011, Jones starred in the one-off BBC Christmas show Lapland.
His 2013 role as Nick Edwards, the slimy opposing candidate to Bob Servant, brought him recognition in the cult BBC Four Neil Forsyth comedy Bob Servant.
Jones has written for Angelos Epithemiou, Mitchell & Webb, the MTV series Fur TV, Jon Culshaw and many others. He was script consultant on E4's Cardinal Burns.
In 2012, he began portraying entrepreneur James Reed in adverts for reed.co.uk.
As a voiceover artist, Jones has worked on numerous commercials, as well as games such as Fable III, Killzone and Xenoblade Chronicles. In 2016, he joined the voice cast of Thomas & Friends, as the voice of Flying Scotsman. Most recently, he has voiced Vermis in Robozuna for ITV/Netflix, various characters in Sadie Sparks for Disney, Constantin in 101 Dalmatian Street for Disney, and is the narrator for the Little Princess.
In 2016, he played Coulson in the BAFTA nominated psychological thriller The Ghoul (directed by Gareth Tunley), and starred as Richard in the West End production of Dead Funny at the Vaudeville Theatre in London.
More recent film work includes Paddington and Woody in The Foreigner with Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan. He also played Bernard Delfont in Stan & Ollie with Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, released in January 2019.
In 2018, Jones starred with Anna Paquin in Flack for Pop/W channel, released in February 2019. He also filmed Home, a 6 part series for Channel 4, that he also wrote, which began airing in March 2019. A second series was broadcast in February and March 2020.[13]
Christmas Karma
2025

Cleaner
Geoffrey Milton
2025

Rivals
Paul Stratton · (8 episodes)
2024

My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom
Self / Dad
2024
My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom (The Actual Sitcom)
Dad
2024

Wonka
Jenkins
2023

Hijack
Felix Staton · (1 episode)
2023

FDR
Theodore Roosevelt · (3 episodes)
2023

Beyond Paradise
Terrence Witham · (1 episode)
2023

The People We Hate at the Wedding
Tom
2022

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt · (2 episodes)
2022

Little Darlings
Mike
2022

Four Lives
John Pape · (3 episodes)
2022

Silent Night
Tony
2021

Creation Stories
Bank Manager
2021

Frayed
Wilko · (1 episode)
2019

Sadie Sparks
(59 episodes)
2019

Home
Peter · (12 episodes)
2019

Flack
Mark · (12 episodes)
2019

Stan & Ollie
Bernard Delfont
2018

Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie
Flying Scotsman (voice)
2018

Backstage At Live Aid
Elton John
2018

Eric, Ernie and Me
John Ammonds
2017

The Foreigner
Ian Wood
2017

The Ghoul
Coulson
2017

Urban Myths
Elton John · (1 episode)
2017

Thomas & Friends: The Great Race
The Flying Scotsman (voice)
2016

Camping
Tom · (6 episodes)
2016

Stag
Cosmo · (3 episodes)
2016

Bill
Sir Walter Raleigh
2015

The Casual Vacancy
Miles Mollison · (3 episodes)
2015

Paddington
Third Geographer
2014
Original Comedy Shorts
(1 episode)
2014

W1A
David Wilkes · (14 episodes)
2014

Edge of Heaven
Prop Maartie · (6 episodes)
2014

Inside No. 9
Charles · (1 episode)
2014

House of Fools
(2 episodes)
2014
Honeysuckle
Simon
2014

Toast of London
(1 episode)
2013

The Wrong Mans
D.S. Brick · (2 episodes)
2013

Up the Women
(1 episode)
2013
The Wright Way
(1 episode)
2013

It's Kevin
Various · (2 episodes)
2013

Bob Servant
Nick Edwards · (6 episodes)
2013

Hunderby
Dr. Foggerty · (10 episodes)
2012

Lapland
Julian
2011

Holy Flying Circus
Terry Jones
2011

Fresh Meat
Macauley · (1 episode)
2011

Episodes
Anthony Powner Smith · (1 episode)
2011

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
(1 episode)
2010

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
Dr. Professor Tigle · (1 episode)
2010

Pete versus Life
(1 episode)
2010

Mongrels
Nelson (voice) · (17 episodes)
2010

Rock & Chips
Golden Egg Waiter
2010

Rock & Chips
(1 episode)
2010

Crooked House
(1 episode)
2008
Sold
(1 episode)
2007

National Geographic: Situation Critical
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
2007

National Geographic: Situation Critical
Narrator (Voice) · (1 episode)
2007

Lead Balloon
(1 episode)
2006

Losing It
Dr. Hall
2006

Love Soup
(1 episode)
2005

The Green Green Grass
(1 episode)
2005

Extras
Journalist · (1 episode)
2005

Agatha Christie's Marple
Horace Bindler · (1 episode)
2004

Honorable Men
Tyrone Powers
2004
Bedsitcom
(8 episodes)
2003

Peep Show
Peter · (1 episode)
2003

White Teeth
Crispin · (4 episodes)
2002

Messiah
TV Reporter · (2 episodes)
2001

My Family
(2 episodes)
2000

Midsomer Murders
Talk Show Host · (1 episode)
1997