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Jeffrey Jones

Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American character actor, best known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus (1984), Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), Dr. Skip Tyler in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Eddie Barzoon in The Devil's Advocate (1997), and A. W. Merric... more

Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American character actor, best known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus (1984), Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), Dr. Skip Tyler in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Eddie Barzoon in The Devil's Advocate (1997), and A. W. Merrick in both Deadwood (2004–2006) and Deadwood: The Movie (2019).

Jones was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied acting at the Putney School, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and Lawrence University. He began his acting career in small parts in film and television in the 1970s. In his best-known roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus, Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice, and Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, his dead-pan expression and distinctive face bring a comic flavor to his characters through their reactions to the situations in which they find themselves, more so than the wit in their scripted lines.

Jones has also had a successful career on stage, appearing in productions of The Crucible, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Glass Menagerie. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards, for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in The Crucible (1988) and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in The Secret Garden (1991).

In 2002, Jones was arrested on charges of child pornography. He pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography and was sentenced to two years of probation. He has not appeared in any major film or television roles since his arrest.

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Amadeus
(1984)
Drama, History, Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozar...
Runtime:
160 min
Director:
Miloš Forman
Cast:
F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow
8.3
93%
88
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
(1986)
Comedy
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
John Hughes
Cast:
Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey
7.8
81%
61
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Ed Wood
(1994)
Comedy, Drama, History
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Tim Burton
Cast:
Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones
7.8
92%
70
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The Devil's Advocate
(1997)
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.
Runtime:
144 min
Director:
Taylor Hackford
Cast:
Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey
7.5
63%
60
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Beetlejuice
(1988)
Comedy, Fantasy
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of h...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Tim Burton
Cast:
Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page
7.5
85%
70
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The Hunt for Red October
(1990)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it -...
Runtime:
135 min
Director:
John McTiernan
Cast:
Sean Connery, Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Scott Glenn
7.6
88%
58
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Sleepy Hollow
(1999)
Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. Locals believe the culprit to be none other than the legendary Headless Horseman.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Tim Burton
Cast:
Johnny Depp, Ian McDiarmid, Casper Van Dien, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gough
7.3
69%
65
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Ravenous
(1999)
Comedy, History, Horror, Western
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Antonia Bird
Cast:
Guy Pearce, Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette
7.0
49%
46
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The Crucible
(1996)
Drama, History
Based upon the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (who wrote the screen adaptation), the Salem witch trials in 1692 plunge the Massachusetts Bay colony into chaos.
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Nicholas Hytner
Cast:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison
6.8
69%
N/A
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How High
(2001)
Comedy
Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance exams and wind up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start livi...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Jesse Dylan
Cast:
Method Man, Redman, Obba Babatundé, Mike Epps, Anna Maria Horsford
6.3
26%
29
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Stuart Little
(1999)
Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The adventures of a heroic and debonair stalwart mouse named Stuart Little with human qualities, who faces some comic misadventures while searching for his lost bird friend and living with a human family as their child.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Rob Minkoff
Cast:
Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Chazz Palminteri, Hugh Laurie, Nathan Lane
5.9
67%
61
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Heartbreakers
(2001)
Comedy, Crime, Romance
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
David Mirkin
Cast:
Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Gene Hackman, Jason Lee
6.2
54%
47
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Valmont
(1989)
Drama, Romance
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love. ...
Runtime:
137 min
Director:
Miloš Forman
Cast:
Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Siân Phillips
7.0
54%
55
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Without a Clue
(1988)
Comedy, Crime
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Thom Eberhardt
Cast:
Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Nigel Davenport
7.0
64%
N/A
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Stay Tuned
(1992)
Comedy, Fantasy
Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to buy a satellite dish offering 666 channels. The new addition to Roy's home entertainment system sucks him and Helen into Hellvision, a realm run by Spike, who is an emissary of Satan. For...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Peter Hyams
Cast:
John Ritter, Pam Dawber, David Tom, Heather McComb, Jeffrey Jones
6.3
47%
41
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Who's Harry Crumb?
(1989)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Paul Flaherty
Cast:
John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin
5.9
27%
44
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Easy Money
(1983)
Comedy
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
James Signorelli
Cast:
Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Candice Azzara, Val Avery
6.3
60%
48
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
(2012)
Drama, Romance, TV Movie
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Runtime:
155 min
Director:
Philip Kaufman
Cast:
Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, Rodrigo Santoro, Robert Duvall, Connie Nielsen
6.3
56%
N/A
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Houseguest
(1995)
Comedy, Family
In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Randall Miller
Cast:
Phil Hartman, Phil Hartman, Sinbad, Chauncey Leopardi, Kim Greist
6.0
14%
N/A
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Howard the Duck
(1986)
Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Willard Huyck
Cast:
Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Dominique Davalos
4.7
14%
28
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Dr. Dolittle 2
(2001)
Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just ...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Steve Carr
Cast:
Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wilson, Raven-Symoné, Kyla Pratt, Steve Zahn
4.7
42%
49
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The Pest
(1997)
Action, Comedy
Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he will be transported to a remote island and hunted by Gustav Shank, a racist German executive. If ...
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
R. Paul Miller
Cast:
John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Edoardo Ballerini, Pat Skipper, Freddy Rodríguez
5.0
8%
N/A
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Transylvania 6-5000
(1985)
Comedy, Horror
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter the sensitive Wolfman, the horny Vampiress Odette and a whole cast of other weirdos.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Rudy De Luca
Cast:
Jeff Goldblum, Joseph Bologna, Ed Begley Jr., Carol Kane, John Byner
5.0
18%
10
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Mom and Dad Save the World
(1992)
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Greg Beeman
Cast:
Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, Jon Lovitz, Thalmus Rasulala, Wallace Shawn
5.3
9%
N/A
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Company Man
(2000)
Comedy
Set in the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
Cast:
Reathel Bean, Harriet Koppel, Douglas McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, Terry Beaver
5.4
14%
18
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Out on a Limb
(1992)
Comedy
While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including his clothes and a business document worth millions of dollars. Bill eventually reunites with Marci, who is in a tizzy because she thinks their stepfather has been killed. While trying to de...
Runtime:
82 min
5.2
N/A
N/A
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The Avenging Angel
(1995)
TV Movie, Western
Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
Runtime:
91 min
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Enid Is Sleeping
(1990)
Comedy, Crime
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities, including her police-officer husband Floyd. Then she decides to reveal Enid's demise, albei...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Maurice Phillips
Cast:
Elizabeth Perkins, Judge Reinhold, Jeffrey Jones
5.6
N/A
N/A
George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
(1986)
The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.
Runtime:
190 min
Director:
William A. Graham
Cast:
Barry Bostwick, Patty Duke, Jeffrey Jones, Richard Bekins, Penny Fuller
7.7
N/A
N/A
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Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues
(1987)
Western
Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their goal is to help the Sioux fight the government and get the supplies they need. They also uncover corruption within a government outpost and find themselves in a dangerous position.
Runtime:
240 min
Director:
Dick Lowry
Cast:
Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner, Marc Alaimo, George American Horse, Charles Durning
5.6
N/A
N/A
Par 6
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Par 6
(2002)
A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothers and sisters.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Grant Heslov
Cast:
Misha Collins, Dylan Walsh, Walter Olkewicz, Valerie Mahaffey, Jeffrey Jones
7.1
N/A
N/A
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
(1998)
Comedy
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than trying to meet with her in a conventional way, he decides to mail himself to her with the help of a pet shop owner. Unfortunately, when he arrives, she is with another man, who immediately ...
Runtime:
92 min
4.4
N/A
N/A
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The Hanoi Hilton
(1987)
Drama, War
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of American servicemen who are prisoners at the detention camp. He assumes command after Cathcart ...
Runtime:
126 min
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Who's Your Caddy?
(2007)
Comedy
Superstar rap mogul C-Note wants to join the Carolina Pines Golf & Country Club, but faces stiff opposition from the establishment's snooty members. C-Note forces the issue by purchasing the land adjacent to the golf course's 17th hole. As the club leaders search for a way to revoke his membership, C-Note realizes his family's honor an...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Don Michael Paul
Cast:
Mick Partridge, Big Boi, Lil Wayne, Sherri Shepherd, Faizon Love
2.2
6%
18