Jeffrey Duncan Jones is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus, Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice. Jones' career started in Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, advanced to London a...
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Lawrence University
Nationality
United States of America
Children
Julian Coutts
Parents
Douglas Bennett Jones, Ruth Schooley
Nicknames
Jeffrey Duncan Jones , Jeff Jones
Music Groups
Lunatic Fringe, Big League, Put Your Hand In The Hand, Cranbrook, BC, Canada, Trail, BC, Canada, Nanaimo, BC, Canada, Rush, Red Rider, The Carpet Frogs, Ocean, Infidels
Nominations
Golden Globe Award(1985),Awards Circuit Community Awards ACCA(1996, 1994),Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007)
The Adams Chronicles”, “Great Performances” (1977), “Kojak” (1977), “Interrogation in Budapest” (1978), “The Soldier” (1982), “Easy Money” (1983), ”Batman: The Animated Series”, ”The People Next Door” (1989)
Star Sign
Libra
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Trademark
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Mustasche
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Towering height
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Quote
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(On the box office and critical failure of Howard the Duck (1986) ) There's no point in worrying what you've just done. What you've done is done. I'm proud of it and I'm happy with my part in it. Onto the next.
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I don't think I have a particular style or acting technique. What I think I have is the ability to fiddle with my own character and make it do different things.
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I didn't so much learn how to act at the London Academy as I did about speech, movement and how to relax. Their attitude was that the acting was basically up to you.
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My intentions as an actor are always to make whatever I'm doing work. I look for the piece to be good as a whole and then, hopefully, to have something good for myself as an actor. I've always been intent on giving to both the project and myself.
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Fact
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He has English and German ancestry, partly by way of Canada.
In 1974, he joined the famed Actors Theater of Louisville for roles ranging from William Shakespeare to "Frankenstein".
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He went to London in 1969 to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art for four years. Afterwards, he ventured to Canada to perform with the Stratford Theater, in Ontario, for three years.
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Attended and graduated from high school in Putney, Vermont.
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Played "Hamlet" in second grade.
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In 1967, his performance in a Lawrence University production of "Hobson's Choice" brought him to the attention of Sir Tyrone Guthrie, who invited him to join the prestigious Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity.
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In November 2002, after having been accused of hiring a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexually explicit photographs, Jones was charged with one felony count of employing a minor for purposes of taking sexually explicit photos and a misdemeanour count of possessing child pornography and released on $20,000 bail. In July 2003, after pleading no contest to the felony charge, he was placed on a sex offender register, given five years probation and ordered to undergo counselling. The misdemeanour charge of possession or control of child pornography was dropped.
$1.5 Million
