Jones returns

A full 26 years after he quit movies at the age of just 29, the American actor Christopher Jones is making a comeback. The Memphis born Jones made his mark in the late 1960s with movies such as Three In The Attic, The Looking-Glass War and the anarchic Wild In The Streets, set in a future when everyone over 30 is put in concentration camps and Jones's character is elected US president.

Jones spent a year In Ireland, playing the shell shocked British army officer in an adulterous affair with Sarah Miles's eponymous character in Ryan's Daughter, and his escapades in West Kerry included writing off a new Ferrari on a country road. When David Lean's epic finally finished shooting, Jones disappeared from movies and got involved in real estate and a cosmetics business.

Quentin Tarantino, a fan of Jones, offered him the role of Zed, the sodomising villain in Pulp Fiction, which Jones turned down, but he has taken a part in Trigger Happy, a feature directed by Larry Bishop, a co star of his in Wild In The Streets. Jones "looks like he's lived a life", says Bishop, and Jones agrees. "I was living a fast life," he told Variety. "Too fast. But I would like a new Ferrari. No, a Lotus If lite, man. They're cool."