Jeffrey Jones
Highest Rated: 93% Amadeus (1984)
Lowest Rated: 6% Who's Your Caddy? (2007)
Birthday: Sep 28, 1946
Birthplace: Buffalo, New York, USA
An accomplished American actor of both stage and screen, Jeffrey Jones became known for a series of frequently hilarious characters ranging from the bumptious, to the blundering, to the merely bewildered. Jones gained widespread recognition in the period biopic that essayed the short, tumultuous life of master composer Mozart, "Amadeus" (1984) starring to riotous effect as the preening, child-like Emperor of Austria. As notable as that role was, he topped himself with a turn as a high school principal obsessed with catching hooky-playing hero Matthew Broderick in John Hughes' "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986). Jones found a professional home as part of director Tim Burton's unofficial acting troupe in efforts like "Beetlejuice" (1988), "Ed Wood" (1994) and "Sleepy Hollow" (1999). Jones also appeared in the critically acclaimed cable Western "Deadwood" (HBO, 2004-06) as a journalist in a corrupt pioneer town.
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 14% | 10.0 Earthquake | Gladstone (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 6% | 59% | Who's Your Caddy? | Richard Cummings (Character) | $5.7M | 2007 |
| 53% | 51% | Heartbreakers | Mr. Appel (Character) | $40.3M | 2001 |
| 26% | 79% | How High | Vice President (Character) | $31.2M | 2001 |
| 42% | 26% | Dr. Dolittle 2 | Joseph Potter (Character) | $113M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Life in the Fast Lane | Minister Pete (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | There's No Fish Food in Heaven | Minister Pete (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 48% | 78% | Ravenous | Col. Hart (Character) | $2.1M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Flypaper | Roger (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 69% | 80% | Sleepy Hollow | Reverend Steenwyck (Character) | $101.1M | 1999 |
| 8% | 68% | The Pest | Gustav Shank (Character) | $3.5M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Santa Fe | Dr. Raskin (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 63% | 80% | The Devil's Advocate | Eddie Barzoon (Character) | $61M | 1997 |
| 68% | 66% | The Crucible | Thomas Putnam (Character) | $7.3M | 1996 |
| 14% | 55% | Houseguest | Ron Timmerman (Character) | $26.3M | 1995 |
| 92% | 88% | Ed Wood | Criswell (Character) | $5.9M | 1994 |
| 47% | 55% | Stay Tuned | Spike (Character) | $9.4M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Welcome to Buzzsaw |
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- | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Out on a Limb |
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$1.6M | 1992 |
| 9% | 43% | Mom and Dad Save the World | Dick Nelson (Character) | $1.8M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Enid Is Sleeping | Floyd (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Over Her Dead Body | Floyd (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 89% | 88% | The Hunt for Red October | Oliver Wendell 'Skip' Tyler (Character) | $119.1M | 1990 |
| 27% | 46% | Who's Harry Crumb? | Eliot Draisen (Character) | $10.4M | 1989 |
| 55% | 69% | Valmont | Gercourt (Character) | $572.9K | 1989 |
| 85% | 82% | Beetlejuice | Charles Deitz (Character) | $73.5M | 1988 |
| 60% | 72% | Without a Clue | Inspector Lestrade (Character) | $7.3M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | The Hanoi Hilton | Fischer (Character) | $39K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | George Washington: The Forging of a Nation | Thomas Jefferson (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 13% | 38% | Howard the Duck | Dr. Walter Jenning (Character) | $15M | 1986 |
| 81% | 92% | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Dean Edward 'Ed' R. Roony (Character) | $69M | 1986 |
| 18% | 41% | Transylvania 6-5000 | Lepescu (Character) | $7.2M | 1985 |
| 93% | 95% | Amadeus | Emperor Joseph II (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 60% | 59% | Easy Money | Clive Barlow (Character) | - | 1983 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92% | 96% | Deadwood | A.W. Merrick (Character) | 2004-2006 |
| 100% | 90% | Invader Zim | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Unknown (Character) | 1998 |
| 82% | 98% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amazing Stories | Unknown (Character) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fresno | Mr. Acme (Character) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | FREE HBO: Deadwood | A.W. Merrick (Character) |
QUOTES FROM Jeffrey Jones CHARACTERS
Dr. Jenning says: If you can't take the heat, get out of that kitchen!
Delia Deetz says: If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane, and I will take you with me!
Charles Deetz says: Yeah, well you know, maybe the house could use a little remodeling. Uh... But, why don't you just leave this room alone, okay?
Delia Deetz says: Okay.
Barbara Maitland says: I'm gonna get her.
Spike says: Fasten your seat belts, folks. It's going to be a bumpy ride!
Reverend Steenwyck says: Their heads weren't found severed. Their heads were not found at all.
Ichabod Crane says: The heads are... gone?
James Hardenbrook says: Taken. Taken by the Headless Horseman. Taken back to hell.
Ferris Bueller says: Do you have a kiss for daddy?
Sloane Peterson says: Are you kidding? (they kiss and make out)
Sloane Peterson says: Are you kidding?
Ed Rooney says: (see's this from a distance) hmmm, so that's how it is in their family.
Ed Rooney says: Hmmm, so that's how it is in their family.
Criswell says: Eddie, we're in show biz. It's all about razzle-dazzle. Appearances. If you look good, and you talk well, people will swallow anything.
Criswell says: We are all intrested in the future cause that is where we will be spending the rest of our lives
Criswell says: We are all interested in the future cause that is where we will be spending the rest of our lives.
Emperor Joseph II says: Too many notes.
Dr. Jenning says: I don't have a license. My name is not Jack.
Dr. Jenning says: She took my eggs.
Dr. Jenning says: In the lab that night, we saw a single feather fall. We weren't aware that the rest of you, Howard, had landed in that alley just two miles away. Any questions?
Howard T. Duck says: Yeah. Where are my pants?
Delia Deetz says: Chalrles if you do not let me remodel this house, I will go insane and take you with me!
Charles Deetz says: Yeah...well maybe it could use a fixer up. Tell you what, just this room alone ok?
Charles Deetz says: Yeah...well maybe it could use a fixer up. Tell you what, just this room alone okay?
Ed Rooney says: I don't trust this kid any further than I can throw him.
School Secretary says: Well, with your bad knee, Ed, you shouldn't throw anybody. It's true.
Ed Rooney says: What is so dangerous about a character like Ferris Bueller is he gives good kids bad ideas. Last thing I need at this point in my career is 1,500 Ferris Bueller disciples running around these halls. He jeopardizes my ability to effectively govern this student body.
School Secretary says: He makes you look like an ass, is what he does, Ed.
Ed Rooney says: Thank you, Grace, but I think you're wrong.
School Secretary says: Oh, he's very popular, Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads â?? they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
School Secretary says: Oh, he's very popular, Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
Ed Rooney says: hat is why I need to show these kids that the example he sets is a first-class ticket to nowhere!
Ed Rooney says: That is why I need to show these kids that the example he sets is a first-class ticket to nowhere!
School Secretary says: Oh, Ed, you sounded like Dirty Harry just then.
Ed Rooney says: Really? Thanks, Grace.
Charles Deetz says: As soon as we get settled, we'll build you a dark room in the basement, okay?
Lydia Deetz says: My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.
Delia Deetz says: So you were miserable in New York City, and now you're going to be miserable out here in the sticks. At least someone's life hasn't been upheaved.
Emperor Joseph II says: There are simply too many notes.
Emperor Joseph II says: Well...there it is.