Acting

Jeffrey Jones

Born September 28, 1946 · Buffalo, New York, USA (age 79)

Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American character actor, best known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus (1984), Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), Dr. Skip Tyler in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Eddie Barzoon in The Devil's Advocate (1997), and A. W. Merrick in both Deadwood (2004–2006) and Deadwood: The Movi…

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The Devil's Advocate

The Devil's Advocate · 1997

The Devil's Advocate

MovieHorrorDrama

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow · 1999

MovieFantasyThriller

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

The Hunt for Red October

The Hunt for Red October · 1990

The Hunt for Red October

MovieActionThriller

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice · 1988

MovieFantasyComedy

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off · 1986

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

Amadeus

Amadeus · 1984

MovieDramaHistory

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Stuart Little

Stuart Little · 1999

MovieFamilyFantasy

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck · 1986

Howard the Duck

MovieComedyAdventure

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

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The Devil's Advocate

The Devil's Advocate · 1997

The Devil's Advocate

MovieHorrorDrama

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

Eddie Barzoon

Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow · 1999

MovieFantasyThriller

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

Reverend Steenwyck

The Hunt for Red October

The Hunt for Red October · 1990

The Hunt for Red October

MovieActionThriller

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

Skip Tyler

Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice · 1988

MovieFantasyComedy

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

Charles

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off · 1986

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

Ed Rooney

Amadeus

Amadeus · 1984

MovieDramaHistory

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Emperor Joseph II

Stuart Little

Stuart Little · 1999

MovieFamilyFantasy

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.

Uncle Crenshaw

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck · 1986

Howard the Duck

MovieComedyAdventure

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

Dr. Walter Jenning

Dr. Dolittle 2

Dr. Dolittle 2 · 2001

MovieComedyFamily

A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just the ways of the wild, but the wiles of lady bears too.

Joe Potter

Ed Wood

Ed Wood · 1994

MovieComedyDrama

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

Criswell

How High

How High · 2001

Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.

Vice President

Deadwood: The Movie

Deadwood: The Movie · 2019

Deadwood: The Movie

MovieWesternDrama

Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.

A. W. Merrick

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Hemingway & Gellhorn · 2012

Hemingway & Gellhorn

MovieDramaRomance

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Charles Colebaugh (uncredited)

Heartbreakers

Heartbreakers · 2001

MovieComedyRomance

Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.

Mr. Appel

Ravenous

Ravenous · 1999

MovieAdventureWestern

After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

Hart

Valmont

Valmont · 1989

MovieDramaRomance

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.

Gercourt

Heaven & Earth

Heaven & Earth · 1993

MovieHistoryWar

In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Marine who offers her hope and a chance at a new life, igniting the possibility of a future together.

Minister (uncredited)

The Crucible

The Crucible · 1996

MovieDramaHistory

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Thomas Putnam

Who's Harry Crumb?

Who's Harry Crumb? · 1989

Who's Harry Crumb?

MovieComedyCrime

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

Eliot Draisen

Without a Clue

Without a Clue · 1988

MovieComedyCrime

Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.

Inspector Lestrade

10.0 Earthquake

10.0 Earthquake · 2014

10.0 Earthquake

MovieDramaAdventure

Los Angeles is about to be hit by a devastating earthquake, and time is running out to save the city from imminent danger.

Gladstone

The Pest

The Pest · 1997

MovieActionComedy

Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he will be transported to a remote island and hunted by Gustav Shank, a racist German executive. If he can survive a full day and night, Vargas gets $50,000 and will be set free. Is he wily enough to elude Shank?

Gustav

Easy Money

Easy Money · 1983

To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.

Clive Barlow

Transylvania 6-5000

Transylvania 6-5000 · 1985

Transylvania 6-5000

MovieComedyHorror

Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter the sensitive Wolfman, the Vampiress Odette and a whole cast of other weirdos.

Lepescu

Great Performances

Great Performances · 1971

Great Performances

SeriesComedyDocumentary

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Sgt. Wilson

Batman: The Animated Series

Batman: The Animated Series · 1992

Batman: The Animated Series

SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation

Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".

Nivens (voice)

Big City Greens

Big City Greens · 2018

Big City Greens

SeriesFamilyAnimation

The offbeat adventures of 10-year-old Cricket Green, a mischievous and optimistic country boy who moves to the big city with his wildly out of place family – older sister Tilly, father Bill and Gramma Alice.

Story

Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt · 1989

Tales from the Crypt

SeriesComedyMystery

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

Professor Finley

Deadwood

Deadwood · 2004

SeriesWesternCrime

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

A. W. Merrick

The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits · 1995

The Outer Limits

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

Dr. Scott Perkins

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone · 1985

The Twilight Zone

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.

Carl Wilkerson (segment "Opening Day")

Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys · 2001

Trailer Park Boys

Follow the booze-fueled misadventures of three longtime pals and petty serial criminals who run scams from their Nova Scotia trailer park.

Jason Maloney

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories · 1985

Amazing Stories

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.

John Baldwin

Justice League

Justice League · 2001

SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation

The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter.

Sir Swami (voice)

Kojak

SeriesCrimeDrama

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

Attendant

Invader ZIM

Invader ZIM · 2001

SeriesAnimationComedy

Zim dreams of greatness. Unfortunately, though, he's hopelessly inept as a space invader. Desperate to be rid of the annoying Zim, his planet's leaders send him on a mission to infiltrate Earth, providing him with leftover, cobbled-together equipment. To their consternation, Zim succeeds in setting up a base on Earth and infiltrating human culture, posing as a human child as he plots the planet's downfall. Only Zim's archnemesis, Dib, recognizes that Zim is an alien, and of course, nobody believes Dib's claims.

Presidentman / Crowd Man / Guy in Crowd #2 (voice)

The Zeta Project

The Zeta Project · 2001

The Zeta Project

SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation

Follow the futuristic adventures of Zeta, a renegade government-designed robot, and Ro, his 15-year-old streetwise companion.

Stuart Little: The Animated Series

Stuart Little: The Animated Series · 2003

Stuart Little: The Animated Series

SeriesAnimationFamily

Uncle Crenshaw Little (voice)

If Tomorrow Comes

If Tomorrow Comes · 1986

If Tomorrow Comes

SeriesCrimeDrama

Tracy Whitney was in love, pregnant and engaged to marry into one of America's best family. And then, with one phone call, she lost everything. After 5 years of unjust imprisonment, Tracy emerges from prison a new woman. Cunning. Ruthless. Determined to survive. But there is one man as formidable as she is. As their paths crisscross, they eventually become daredevil partners in an adventure that climaxes their criminal careers.

Budge Hollander

Fresno

SeriesComedySoap

In Fresno, California, the once-wealthy Kensington family's raisin-growing empire has fallen on hard times. They are led by widowed matriarch Charlotte, who is locked in a deadly power struggle with rival raisin magnate Tyler Cane.

Mr. Acme

George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation

George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation · 1986

George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation

Beset by economic unrest, threatened from within by Indian nations and from without by overseas powers, the young country reeled in turmoil. But the gallant general who had commanded the Continental army in battle also agreed to guide the fledgling country - and his sure hand steadied the course.

Thomas Jefferson

The People Next Door

The People Next Door · 1989

The People Next Door

The People Next Door is an American situation comedy which aired briefly on CBS as part of its Fall 1989 schedule.

Walter Kellogg