Tommy Lee Jones - Wikipedia. Tommy Lee Jones (born September 1. American actor and filmmaker. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U. S. Marshal. Samuel Gerard in the 1. The Fugitive. His other notable starring roles include former Texas Ranger.

Woodrow F. Call in the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, Agent K in the Men in Black film series, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, the villain Two- Face in Batman Forever, terrorist William Strannix in Under Siege, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp in Man of the House, rancher Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which he also directed, Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger, CIA Director Robert Dewey in Jason Bourne, and Warden Dwight Mc. Clusky in Natural Born Killers.

Jones has also portrayed real- life figures such as businessman Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, executed murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song, U. S. Army General Douglas Mac. Arthur in Emperor, Oliver Lynn, husband of Loretta Lynn, in Coal Miner's Daughter, and baseball great Ty Cobb in Cobb. Early in his career, Jones first gained recognition for his contract role as Dr. Mark Toland on the soap opera One Life to Live for six years.

Early life[edit]. Jones as a junior in high school, 1. Jones was born on September 1. San Saba, Texas.[2][3] His mother, Lucille Marie (née Scott), was a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and his father, Clyde C. Jones, was an oil field worker.[2] The two were married and divorced twice.

He was raised in Midland, Texas[4] and attended Robert E. Lee High School. Jones soon moved to Dallas and graduated from the St. Mark's School of Texas in 1. He attended Harvard College on a need- based scholarship. He stayed in Mower B- 1. Vice President. Al Gore.

As an upperclassman, he stayed in Dunster House[7] with roommates Gore and Bob Somerby, who later became editor of the media criticism site the Daily Howler. Jones played offensive guard[8] on Harvard's undefeated 1. All- Ivy League selection, and played in the 1. Game, which featured a memorable and literally last- minute Harvard 1. Yale. He recounts his memory of "the most famous football game in Ivy League history" in the documentary Harvard Beats Yale 2. Jones graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1. Catholicism" in the works of Flannery O'Connor.[9][1.

Early acting and film (1. Jones moved to New York to become an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1. A Patriot for Me in a number of supporting roles. In 1. 97. 0, he landed his first film role, coincidentally playing a Harvard student in Love Story (Erich Segal, the author of Love Story, said that he based the lead character of Oliver on the two undergraduate roommates he knew while attending Harvard, Jones and Gore).[1. In early 1. 97. 1, he returned to Broadway in Abe Burrows' Four on a Garden where he shared the stage with Carol Channing and Sid Caesar.

Between 1. 97. 1 and 1. Dr. Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. He returned to the stage for a 1. Ulysses in Nighttown with Zero Mostel. It was followed by the acclaimed TV movie The Amazing Howard Hughes, where he played the lead role.

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In films, he played an escaped convict hunted in Jackson County Jail (1. Vietnam veteran in Rolling Thunder, (1. Laurence Olivier in the Harold Robbins drama The Betsy, and Police Detective 'John Neville' opposite Faye Dunaway in the 1.

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The Eyes of Laura Mars"In 1. Jones earned his first Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn's husband, Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn, in the popular Coal Miner's Daughter. In 1. 98. 1, he played a drifter opposite Sally Field in Back Roads, a comedy that received middling reviews.[1. Increased exposure (1. In 1. 98. 3, he received an Emmy[1.

Best Actor for his performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in a TV adaptation of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. That same year he starred in a pirate adventure, Nate and Hayes, playing the heavily bearded pirate Captain Bully Hayes. In 1. 98. 9, he earned another Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Texas Ranger lawman Woodrow F. Call in the acclaimed television mini- series Lonesome Dove, based on the best- seller by Larry Mc.

Murtry. In the 1. The Fugitive co- starring Harrison Ford, Batman Forever co- starring Val Kilmer, and Men in Black with Will Smith made Jones one of the best- paid and most in- demand actors in Hollywood. His performance as Deputy U. S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive received broad acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a sequel. When he accepted his Oscar, his head was shaved for his role in the film Cobb, which he made light of in his speech: "The only thing a man can say at a time like this is 'I am not really bald'.

Actually I'm lucky to be working". Among his other well- known performances during the 1. Clay Shaw/Clay Bertrand in the 1. JFK (which earned him another Oscar nomination), as a terrorist who hijacks a U. S. Navy battleship in Under Siege and as a maximum- security prison warden who's in way over his head in Natural Born Killers. Jones co- starred with director Clint Eastwood as astronauts in the 2.

Space Cowboys, in which both played retired pilots and friends/rivals leading a space rescue mission together. Recent years (2. 00. In 2. 00. 5, the first theatrical feature film Jones directed, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, was presented at the 2. Cannes Film Festival. Jones's character speaks both English and Spanish in the film. His performance won him the Best Actor Award.

His first film as a director had been The Good Old Boys in 1. Two strong performances in 2.

Jones's career, one as a beleaguered father investigating the disappearance of his soldier son in In the Valley of Elah, the other as a Texas sheriff hunting an assassin in the Oscar- winning No Country for Old Men. For the former, he was nominated for an Academy Award. Jones has been a spokesperson for Japanese brewing company Suntory since 2. He can be seen in various Japanese TV commercials of Suntory's Coffee brand Boss as a character called "Alien Jones," an extraterrestrial who takes the form of a human being to check on the world of humans. There are 3. 4 such commercials, many of which can be seen on You.

Tube.[1. 4] In 2. Jones appeared in public service announcements on Japanese television, joining a number of other popular figures who sang two sentimental songs in remembrance of those lost in the 2. Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. In 2. 01. 0, Jones appeared alongside Ben Affleck in the recession drama The Company Men.

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where early reviews praised Jones's performance as "pitch- perfect."[1. Jones had a role in the Marvel Studios film, Captain America: The First Avenger.[1. He also directed, produced and co- starred with Samuel L. Jackson in an adaptation of The Sunset Limited. In 2. 01. 2, there was another turning point in Jones's career, starting in a reprisal of his role as Agent K in Men in Black 3, the romantic dramedy Hope Springs, and co- starring as Thaddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. Jones's performance in Lincoln received wide critical acclaim. For this performance, Jones received his fourth Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor.

Personal life[edit]Jones was married to Kate Lardner, the daughter of screenwriter and journalist Ring Lardner Jr., from 1.

The Good Old Boys (TV Movie 1. Perhaps I liked this movie because it reminded me very much of my father and mother. My father was an itinerent cowboy and a championship rodeo rider in the early part of the 2. Century just like the role Tommy Lee Jones played as Hewey Callaway.

And he had a side kick much like Sam Shepard's character Tarnell. My father met a lady like Sissy Spacek when he was 3.

Tarnell also got married but he was killed in a rodeo two years later and my father gave up rodeo riding. Life was very much like in the movie in those days. You found people that would go out of their way to help others and the bankers in the movie were typical of bankers in those days, mean as hell. The acting in the movie was excellent. Everyone in the movie played roles that were very typical in those days and they did a good job of it.

The only gripe I have with the movie is that the ending was unreal. I won't give it away but I have known many cowboys but I never knew one that didn't want to settle down. One of the funniest scenes in the movie was when the outhouse was knocked down with the grandmother in it. That was a common prank in those days, to knock over an outhouse. The grandmother was a pistol. I knew old women just like her. The author either had some experience or he really did a great job of research because the story (except for the ending) accurately depicted conditions in those days.