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Jeffrey Jones

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Jeffrey Duncan Jones was born in Buffalo, New York. He is a very tall, fair-haired character actor who is recognized all over for his excellent work. He is a veteran stage actor having such plays as "The Elephant Man" and Neil Simon's "London Suite" under his belt. His first film role was in The Revolutionary (1970).
- IMDb mini biography by: Alex G. Bowman <bowmaag@wku.edu>

In November 2002 he was arrested and charged with violating California Penal Code Section 311.4 (c), Use of a Minor to Perform Prohibited Acts. He subsequently pled no contest to the charge of inducing a 14-year-old-boy to pose for sexually explicitly photos and was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to register as a sex offender and undergo counseling. A misdemeanor charge of possession of child pornography was dropped as part of the deal. In 2009 he pled guilty to a felony charge of failing to update his information in the sex offender registry and was sentenced to 3 years of probation and 250 hours of community service.
Photographed with Justin Bieber on July 23, 2016. The image, shared to Bieber's Instagram, showed Bieber and Jones apparently spoofing Jones' role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). The post received over 1.5 million likes in several days, but was eventually removed due to negative backlash over Jones' criminal record.
He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Amadeus (1984) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).
Filmed a role in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) that was ultimately cut.
Promoted from guest performer to series regular in the second season of Deadwood (2004).

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.
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.
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.
[on the critical and commercial 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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