Doug Jones
Doug Jones was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States on May 24th, 1960 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 63, Doug Jones biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Doug Jones, an American actor, contortionist, and mime, was born on May 24, 1960.
He is best known for his realistic portrayals of non-human animals, mainly through heavy make-up and/or visual effects.
He has collaborated with celebrated filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, 'Die Laughter (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), and The Shape of Water (2017), among others. (1993), Tank Girl (1995), and The Cabinet of Dr. George Bernardo (1995).
Caligari (2005), Fantastic Four: The Silver Surfer's (2005), Absentia (2011), Ouija: The Origin of Evil (2016), and The Bye Man (2017).
He has appeared in several science fiction films, including Falling Skies (2013-2015) and del Toro's horror film The Strain (2014-2016).
He has played Commander Saru in the science fiction film Star Trek: Discovery since 2017.
Early life
Jones, the youngest of four brothers, was born in Indianapolis and attended Bishop Chatard High School. He graduated from Ball State University, where he delayed his experience as a mime and transformed the school mascot "Charlie Cardinal."
Personal life
Jones referred to himself as a "dyed-in-the-wool Christian from the Midwest," to the extent that he was initially hesitant about his participation in Hellboy due to the titular character's demonic appearance.
Laurie Pontoni, Jones' college sweetheart, married Jones in 1984. In 1985, the couple moved to Los Angeles to continue his acting career.
Career
"Mac Tonight," Jones' career as a 1980s advertisement character, began his career in the television and film industry. "You'd be surprised how many times that comes into play in commercials," he said. They'll want someone to hold a box of Tide jokes or something. "I once squished into a box for a brand that had just loosened fit jeans." Gordon Page, Jr., a young man with autism who disappeared from a medical center in 1991, appeared in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries in 1994.
Despite being best known for his prosthetic makeup, such as the zombie Billy Butcherson in Walt Disney Pictures' Halloween film Hocus Pocus or lead spy Morlock in the 2002 remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Stefan Haves' Stalled, AntiKaiser Productions' Three Lives, etc.
In Hellboy, Jones played Abe Sapien; the voice was performed by an uncredited David Hyde Pierce in the first film, but Jones' voice was used in the sequel. "I must make that a part of my being and my physical appearance," he says. "I must make it a part of my being and my physical appearance" when doing a costumed character."
In 2005, he collaborated with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, starring as the Faun in del Toro's multiple-Academy Award-winning Spanish-language fantasy/horror film Pan's Labyrinth. He also appears in the film as the Pale Man, a barbaric creature with a penchant for eating children. He was also expected to learn a great deal of Spanish in both roles, but Pablo Adan eventually had his voice renamed as a result. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a film that received three awards at the Screamfest Horror Festival in Los Angeles, including the Audience Choice Award, was also successful that year. Jones appeared in the feature films The Benchwarmers and Lady in the Water in 2006, and reprised his role as Abe Sapien by portraying the character in the forthcoming Hellboy Animated television series, filmed two 75-minute animated films.
Jones' likeness was used in Nvidia's "Human Head" tech demo in February 2007. He appeared in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as the Silver Surfer in June 2007, although Laurence Fishburne provided the character's voice). He reprised his role in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, once more under del Toro's direction, in which he provided both the voice and body performances. He appeared in two other roles in the film: the Angel of Death and the Chamberlain, both under heavy prosthetics. Jones will be playing the demon in his forthcoming Frankenstein adaptation, according to del Toro on BBC Radio in 2009.
Jones was dissatisfied to learn that his voice character in the Silver Surfer had been dubbed by another actor (Fishburne) when the movie was released. He found that studio pressure had been imposed in order to add more "names" to the film, upon an inquiry. As Jones' name became more prominent in the industry, he was eventually able to include a clause in his contracts guaranteeing that no English dialogue of his characters would be dubbed. However, Roles that include other languages may be deleted. In Pan's Labyrinth, this came into play – Jones learned enough Spanish to talk his characters. Nonetheless, the call was made to use a native speaker in order to fully comprehend the language's nuances.
Jones appeared in Sockbaby 4, the fourth installment of the Internet martial arts comedy series Sockbaby, directed by Mike Evans.
Jones appeared in the French-language film Gainsbourg (Vie héro), written and directed by French comic book author Joann Sfar and produced by Universal Europe. Jones performed La Gueule ("The Mug"), the grotesque fantasy muse and frankler who teases, inspires, and accompanies Serge Gainsbourg throughout his life. He was supplied with prosthetics and effects from Academy Award-winning Spanish FX firm DDT Efectos Especiales, with whom he had already worked on Pan's Labyrinth; the FX technicians requested that Jones be given the role as the Mug creature due to his ability to perform (without complaining) with heavy prosthetics and elaborate special effects; Jones spoke phonetically this time in Pan's Labyrinth; his voice was rebranded by Éric Elmosnino, who also played Gainsbourg. Director Joann Sfar adored Jones's speech patterns so much that he begged Elmosnino to imitate it when he did the creature's lines. On January 20, 2010, the film was released in France.
Jones signed a book deal with Medallion Press in January 2010 to model Mime Very Own Book, co-authored by Adam Mock and Scott Allen Perry, and photographed by Eric Curtis. In December 2011, the book was supposed to be published.
In the web series Universal Dead, Jones plays Dr. Henry Vataber. Universal Dead will be turned into a film in late June of 2010. He appeared in the independent film The Candy Shop, a "modern fairy tale" starring child sex trafficking, which was produced by the American film studio Whitestone Pictures.
In Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, Jones appeared as "Operator" in the popular Internet myth "Slender Man."
In Star Trek: Discovery, Jones was cast as Commander Saru, which premiered on September 24, 2017. Jones returned to Guillermo del Toro in the same year, this time in a romantic lead role, the Amphibian Man (the "asset") in the Academy Award-winning The Shape of Water.
Jones starred Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus 2 in 2022.