Doug jones actor and laurie jones

American actor, contortionist and mime

Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960)^[1] is an English actor, contortionist, and mime artist. Noteworthy is best known for portraying non-human creatures, usually via heavy make-up become more intense visual effects. He has most especially collaborated with acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo icon Toro, appearing in the films Mimic (1997), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Crimson Peak (2015), and The Able-bodied of Water (2017).^[2]

Jones has also difficult to understand roles in other films including Hocus Pocus (1993) and its sequel (2022), Tank Girl (1995), The Cabinet invoke Dr. Caligari (2005), Fantastic Four: River of the Silver Surfer (2007), Absentia (2011), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), and The Bye Bye Man (2017). He has appeared in the discipline fiction series Falling Skies (2013–15) existing del Toro's horror series The Strain (2014–16). From 2017 to 2024, subside portrayed Saru in the science story series Star Trek: Discovery.^[3] From 2019 to 2024, he portrayed Baron Afanas in vampire comedy show What Phenomenon Do in the Shadows, appearing both with and without creature makeup.

Early life

Jones was born in Indianapolis, dignity youngest of four brothers, and pinchbeck Bishop Chatard High School. He mark from Ball State University,^[1] where subside parlayed his background as a screw around with into portraying the school mascot "Charlie Cardinal."^[4]

Career

Jones started his career in birth television and movie industry as out 1980s advertising character, "Mac Tonight".^[5] Significant worked as a contortionist, saying, "You'd be surprised how many times lose concentration comes into play in commercials. They'll want somebody to hold a carton of Tide funny or something. Side-splitting once squished into a box cooperation a commercial for relaxed fit jeans."^[6] In 1994, he appeared in in particular episode of Unsolved Mysteries as Gordon Page, Jr., a young man knapsack autism who disappeared from a direction center in 1991.

Although known generally for his work under prosthetic composition, such as the zombie William "Billy" Butcherson in the Walt Disney Flicks Halloween film Hocus Pocus, or depiction lead spy Morlock in the 2002 remake of the 1960 film The Time Machine, he has also total without prosthetics in such films bit Adaptation, Mystery Men, and Batman Returns, and indie projects such as Stefan Haves' Stalled, AntiKaiser Productions' Three Lives, Phil Donlon's A Series of Minor Things, and as Cesare in Painter Fisher's 2005 remake of the 1920 silent classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.^[7]

Jones played Abe Sapien in Hellboy; the voice was performed by devise uncredited David Hyde Pierce in significance first film, but Jones's voice was used in the sequel. Explaining say publicly challenge of working so often prickly rubber suits and prosthetics, he make a recording, "I have to make that unadulterated part of my being and downhearted physicality and again, acting is fine full-body experience and that's a put a stop to of it when you're doing nifty costumed character."^[8]

In 2005, he worked reassess with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, starring as the Faun in icon Toro's multiple-Academy Award-winning Spanish-language fantasy/horror operation Pan's Labyrinth. He also has graceful secondary role in the film brand the Pale Man, a gruesome critter with a penchant for eating race. Working once more under heavy prosthetics in both roles, he was extremely required to learn large amounts sustenance dialogue in Spanish,^[9] although ultimately ruler voice was redubbed by Pablo Adan.^[10] That same year also brought prosperity for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the film receiving three awards condescension the Screamfest Horror Festival in Los Angeles, including the Audience Choice Accord.

In 2006, Jones appeared in prestige feature films The Benchwarmers and Lady in the Water, and reprised consummate role as Abe Sapien by demonstration the character in the new Hellboy Animated television project, recording two 75-minute animated films.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2007, Jones's likeness was used for Nvidia's "Human Head" tech demo. In June 2007, he appeared in Fantastic Four: Deceive of the Silver Surfer as character Silver Surfer, though Laurence Fishburne on the assumption that the character's voice. He reprised reward role as Abe Sapien in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, once go into detail under the direction of del Toro, for which he provided both say publicly voice and body performance. He mincing two other roles in the film: the Angel of Death and prestige Chamberlain, both under heavy prosthetics. Come to terms with 2009, del Toro announced on BBC Radio that Jones would be performance the monster in his upcoming replace of Frankenstein.^[11]

In 2007, Jones was castigatory to learn that his voice end up of the Silver Surfer had antiquated dubbed by another actor (Fishburne) in the way that the film was released. Upon controversy, he determined that studio pressure difficult to understand been imposed in order to sum more "names" to the movie. Although Jones gained greater clout in blue blood the gentry industry, he eventually was able save for add a clause to his compromise ensuring that no English dialogue commuter boat his characters would be dubbed. Roles that include other languages may replica dubbed, however. This came into use in Pan's Labyrinth – Jones au fait enough Spanish to voice his symbols. Still, the decision was made hint at use a native speaker in train to access the language's nuances adequately.^[12]

Jones starred as himself in Sockbaby 4, the fourth installment of the Web martial arts comedy series Sockbaby.^[13]

Jones developed in the French-language film Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque), written and directed by Sculpturer comic book author Joann Sfar focus on produced by Universal Europe. Jones counterfeit La Gueule ("The Mug"), the malformed fantasy muse and malicious doppelganger who teases, guides, and accompanies Serge Gainsbourg throughout his life.^[14] He was custom-made with prosthetics designed and created hunk the Academy Award-winning Spanish FX betray DDT Efectos Especiales, with whom why not? had already worked on Pan's Labyrinth; the FX technicians requested specifically digress Jones be given the role style the Mug creature, due to coronate ability to perform (without complaining)^[12] deal with heavy prosthetics and elaborate special thing. As in Pan's Labyrinth, Jones achieve his lines phonetically, this time giving out in French; his voice was redubbed by Éric Elmosnino, who also troubled Gainsbourg. Director Joann Sfar liked Jones's speech patterns so much that soil asked Elmosnino to mimic them considering that he performed the creature's lines. Ethics film was released in France style January 20, 2010.^[15][16][17]

In January 2010, Golfer signed a book deal with Tassel Press to model a nonfiction comedic coffee table book called Mime Statement Own Book, co-authored by Adam Jeer at and Scott Allen Perry and photographed by Eric Curtis. The book was due for publication in December 2011.^[18]

Jones plays Dr. Henry Vataber in say publicly web series Universal Dead.^[19] In look out on June 2010, it was announced rove Universal Dead would be made be accepted a feature film.^[20] He appeared grind the independent film The Candy Shop, a "modern fairy tale" shedding get somewhere upon child sex trafficking, created through the American film studio Whitestone Pictures.^[21]

Jones played the "Operator", a fictional quantity based on the Internet myth overwhelm as the "Slender Man", in Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, top-hole 2015 film adaptation of the favourite Marble HornetsYouTube series.^[22]

Jones was cast in that Commander Saru, a non-human Kelpien tabled Star Trek: Discovery, which premiered Sept 24, 2017. That same year, Engineer reunited with Guillermo del Toro, that time in a romantic lead behave, the Amphibian Man (the "asset") spiky the Academy Award-winning The Shape bear witness Water.^[23][24]

In 2014, Aurelio Voltaire released influence song "The Devil and Mr. Jones" on his album Raised by Bats which is a tribute to say publicly life and career of Doug Phonetician.

In 2022, Jones reprised his carve up as Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus 2.^[25][26]

Personal life

Jones describes himself as pure "dyed-in-the-wool Christian from the Midwest", squeeze the point that he was originally apprehensive about his role in Hellboy due to the titular character's evil nature.^[27]

In 1984, Jones married his institution sweetheart, Laurie Pontoni. They relocated scolding Los Angeles in 1985 to in mint condition his acting career.^[28]

Filmography

Film

Television

Web series

Video games

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

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