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Biography

An eighth generation Texan, actor Tommy Lee Jones attended Harvard University, where he roomed with future U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Though several of his less knowledgeable fans have tended to dismiss Jones as a roughhewn redneck, the actor is equally at home on the polo fields (he's a champion player) as he was on the oil fields, where he made his living for many years.

After graduating cum laude from Harvard in 1969, Jones made his stage bow that same year in A Patriot for Me; in 1970 he appeared in his first film, Love Story (listed way, way down the cast list as one of Ryan O'Neal's frat buddies). Interestingly enough, while Jones was at Harvard, he and roommate Gore provided the models for author Erich Segal while he was writing the character of Oliver, the book's (and then the film's) protagonist. After this supporting role, Jones got his first film lead in the obscure Canadian film Eliza's Horoscope (1975). In 1976, following a spell on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live, he gained national attention when he was cast in the title role in the TV miniseries The Amazing Howard Hughes (his resemblance to the title character, both vocally and visually, was positively uncanny). Six years later, Jones won further acclaim and an Emmy for his startling performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song.

Jones spent the rest of the '80s working in both television and film, doing his most notable work on such TV miniseries as Lonesome Dove (1989), for which he earned an Emmy nomination. It was not until the early '90s that the actor became a substantial figure in Hollywood, a position catalyzed by a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in Oliver Stone's JFK. Two years later, Jones won both that award and a Golden Globe for his driven, starkly funny portrayal of U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard in The Fugitive. His subsequent work during the decade was prolific and enormously varied. In 1994 alone, he could be seen as an insane prison warden in Natural Born Killers, titular baseball hero Ty Cobb in Cobb, a troubled army captain in Blue Sky, a wily federal attorney in The Client, and a psychotic bomber in Blown Away.

Jones was also attached to a number of big-budget action movies, hamming it up as the crazed Two-Face in Batman Forever (1995), donning sunglasses and an attitude to play a special agent in Men in Black (1997), and reprising his Fugitive role for the film's 1998 sequel, U.S. Marshals. The following year, he continued this trend, playing Ashley Judd's parole officer in the psychological thriller Double Jeopardy. The later 1990s as well as the millennial turnover found Jones' popularity soaring, and the distinguished actor would continue to develop a successful comic screen persona (Space Cowboys (2000) and Men in Black II (2002)) in addition to maintaining his dramatic clout with roles in such thrillers as The Rules of Engagement (2000) and The Hunted (2002). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Filmography

Cheer Up (2003)
Last Ride, The (2003)
Hunted, The (2003) .... L.T. Bonham
Barry Sonnenfeld's Intergalactic Guide to Comedy (2002) (V) .... Himself
Creature Featurettes (2002) (V) .... Himself
Design in Motion: The Look of 'Men in Black II' (2002) (V) .... Himself
Men in Black II (2002) .... Agent K/Kevin Brown, Postmaster Truko MA
... aka MIB 2 (2002) (USA: promotional abbreviation)
... aka MIIB (2002) (USA: promotional abbreviation)
Making of 'Space Cowboys', The (2000) (TV)
Kennedy Center Honors, The (2000) (TV) .... Himself
Metamorphosis of Men in Black (2000) (V) .... MIB Agent K (Kay)
Space Cowboys (2000) .... Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins
Rules of Engagement (2000) .... Col. Hayes 'Hodge' Hodges
... aka Règles d'engagement, Les (2000) (Canada: French title)
... aka Rules - Sekunden der Entscheidung (2000) (Germany)
Double Jeopardy (1999) .... Travis Lehman, Halfway House Manager
... aka Doppelmord (2000) (Germany)
... aka Double condamnation (1999) (Canada: French title)
Kennedy Center Honors, The (1998) (TV) .... Himself
Small Soldiers (1998) (voice) .... Major Chip Hazard
U.S. Marshals (1998) .... Chief Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard
Men in Black (1997) .... Agent K
... aka MIB (1997) (USA: promotional abbreviation)
Volcano (1997) .... Mike Roark
Batman Forever (1995) .... Harvey Two-Face/Harvey Dent
... aka Forever (1995/I) (USA: title without logo)
67th Annual Academy Awards, The (1995) (TV) (uncredited) .... Himself
Good Old Boys, The (1995) (TV) .... Hewey Calloway
Cobb (1994) .... Ty Cobb
Blue Sky (1994) .... Major Henry 'Hank' G. Marshall'
Natural Born Killers (1994) .... Dwight McClusky
Client, The (1994) .... 'Reverend' Roy Foltrigg
Blown Away (1994) .... Ryan Gaerity
Fugitive, The (1993) .... Samuel Gerard
House of Cards (1993) .... Jake Beerlander
Heaven & Earth (1993) .... Steve Butler
... aka Entre ciel et terre (1994) (France)
Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy (1992) (also archive footage) .... Himself
Under Siege (1992) .... William Stranix
... aka Piège en haute mer (1993) (France)
Lonesome Dove: The Making of an Epic (1991) (TV) .... Himself
JFK (1991) .... Clay Shaw
... aka JFK (1991) (France)
Fire Birds (1990) .... Brad Little
... aka Wings of the Apache (1990)
Package, The (1989) .... Thomas Boyette
"Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini) TV Series .... Woodrow F Call
Gotham (1988) (TV) .... Eddie Mallard
... aka Dead Can't Lie, The (1988) (TV)
Stormy Monday (1988) .... Cosmo
April Morning (1988) (TV) .... Moses Cooper
Stranger on My Land (1988) (TV) .... Bud Whitman
Big Town, The (1987) .... George Cole
Broken Vows (1987) (TV) .... Pater Joseph McMahon
Yuri Nosenko, KGB (1986) (TV) .... Steve Daley
Black Moon Rising (1986) .... Quint
Park Is Mine, The (1986) (TV) .... Mitch
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985) (TV) .... Brick Pollitt
River Rat, The (1984) .... Billy
Nate and Hayes (1983) .... Captain Bully Hayes
... aka Savage Islands (1983)
Rainmaker, The (1982) (TV) .... Starbuck
Executioner's Song, The (1982) (TV) .... Gary Mark Gilmore
Back Roads (1981) .... Elmore Pratt
Barn Burning (1980) (TV) .... Abner Snopes
... aka American Short Story Collection: Barn Burning, The (1980) (TV)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) .... Doolittle 'Mooney' Lynn
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) .... John Neville
Betsy, The (1978) .... Angelo Perino
... aka Harold Robbins' The Betsy (1978)
Rolling Thunder (1977) .... Johnny Vohden
Amazing Howard Hughes, The (1977) (TV) .... Howard Hughes
Jackson County Jail (1976) .... Coley Blake
... aka Innocent Victim, The (1983) (USA: video title)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976) (TV) .... Officer Hutton
Charlie's Angels (1976) (TV) .... Aram Kolegian
Eliza's Horoscope (1975) .... Tommy
Life Study (1973) .... Gus
"One Life to Live" (1968) TV Series .... Dr. Mark Toland (1971-1975)
... aka "One Life to Live: The Summer of Seduction" (2001) (USA: promotional title)
Love Story (1970) (as Tom Lee Jones) .... Hank

Links

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Contact

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San Saba, TX 76877
USA