Christopher Jones (actor) Winters, Hal Holbrook, and a young Richard Pryor. Later that same year, Jones appeared with Yvette Mimieux in the hit sex comedy "Three in the Attic". Jones also became friends with actress Sharon Tate and her husband Roman Polanski. He later recounted that he had an affair with Tate while she was pregnant with Polanski's child, and that he had a premonition of her death (she was murdered by members of the Manson family). After two films in Europe with Pia Degermark ("The Looking Glass War" and "Brief Season", both 1969), Jones was cast by director David Lean in "Ryan's
Charles Manson when he was rushed to Mercy Hospital in downtown Bakersfield. A source told the "Los Angeles Times" that Manson was seriously ill, and TMZ reported his doctors considered him "too weak" for surgery. He was returned to prison by January 6; whatever treatment he had received was not disclosed. On November 15, 2017, a source not authorized to speak on behalf of the corrections department confirmed that Manson had returned to a hospital in Bakersfield. In compliance with federal and state medical privacy laws, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did not confirm this. He died from cardiac arrest