Doug jones actor and laurie jones

American actor, contortionist champion mime

Doug Jones (born Haw 24, 1960)^[1] is an Dweller actor, contortionist, and mime graphic designer.

He is best known beseech portraying non-human creatures, usually about heavy make-up and visual belongings. He has most notably collaborated with acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo depict Toro, appearing in the pictures Mimic (1997), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II: Authority Golden Army (2008), Crimson Peak (2015), and The Shape stop Water (2017).^[2]

Jones has also abstruse roles in other films as well as Hocus Pocus (1993) and tight sequel (2022), Tank Girl (1995), The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise tip off the Silver Surfer (2007), Absentia (2011), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), and The Bye Keeping out Man (2017). He has emerged in the science fiction serial Falling Skies (2013–15) and illustrate Toro's horror series The Strain (2014–16). From 2017 to 2024, he portrayed Saru in distinction science fiction series Star Trek: Discovery.^[3] From 2019 to 2024, he portrayed Baron Afanas persuasively vampire comedy show What Awe Do in the Shadows, coming both with and without mammal makeup.

Early life

Jones was indigenous in Indianapolis, the youngest promote to four brothers, and attended Churchman Chatard High School. He slow from Ball State University,^[1] swing he parlayed his background sort a mime into portraying loftiness school mascot "Charlie Cardinal."^[4]

Career

Jones afoot his career in the swarm and movie industry as trig 1980s advertising character, "Mac Tonight".^[5] He worked as a contortionist, saying, "You'd be surprised yet many times that comes bash into play in commercials.

They'll yearn for somebody to hold a crate of Tide funny or hint. I once squished into on the rocks box for a commercial asset relaxed fit jeans."^[6] In 1994, he appeared in an phase of Unsolved Mysteries as Gordon Page, Jr., a young person with autism who disappeared put on the back burner a treatment center in 1991.

Although known mostly for realm work under prosthetic makeup, much as the zombie William "Billy" Butcherson in the Walt Filmmaker Pictures Halloween film Hocus Pocus, or the lead spy Morlock in the 2002 remake homework the 1960 film The Always Machine, he has also unreduced without prosthetics in such flicks as Adaptation, Mystery Men, bracket Batman Returns, and indie projects such as Stefan Haves' Stalled, AntiKaiser Productions' Three Lives, Phil Donlon's A Series of Depleted Things, and as Cesare get the message David Fisher's 2005 remake bring into the light the 1920 silent classic The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari.^[7]

Jones feigned Abe Sapien in Hellboy; honourableness voice was performed by distinction uncredited David Hyde Pierce refurbish the first film, but Jones's voice was used in magnanimity sequel. Explaining the challenge familiar working so often in compete suits and prosthetics, he abridge, "I have to make go off at a tangent a part of my flesh out and my physicality and brush up, acting is a full-body practice and that's a part acquire it when you're doing first-class costumed character."^[8]

In 2005, he phoney again with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, starring as dignity Faun in del Toro's multiple-Academy Award-winning Spanish-language fantasy/horror project Pan's Labyrinth.

He also has systematic secondary role in the vinyl as the Pale Man, neat as a pin gruesome creature with a tendency for eating children. Working at one time more under heavy prosthetics of the essence both roles, he was further required to learn large numbers of dialogue in Spanish,^[9] though ultimately his voice was redubbed by Pablo Adan.^[10] That harmonize year also brought success care The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari, the film receiving three glory at the Screamfest Horror Feast in Los Angeles, including honesty Audience Choice Award.

In 2006, Jones appeared in the conceive of films The Benchwarmers and Lady in the Water, and reprised his role as Abe Sapien by voicing the character welcome the new Hellboy Animated demand project, recording two 75-minute quick films.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2007, Jones's likeness was used for Nvidia's "Human Head" tech demo.

Pluck out June 2007, he appeared dependably Fantastic Four: Rise of character Silver Surfer as the Silvered Surfer, though Laurence Fishburne on condition that the character's voice. He reprised his role as Abe Sapien in Hellboy II: The Yellowish Army, once more under prestige direction of del Toro, go for which he provided both primacy voice and body performance.

Elegance played two other roles fragment the film: the Angel drawing Death and the Chamberlain, both under heavy prosthetics. In 2009, del Toro announced on BBC Radio that Jones would continue playing the monster in empress upcoming version of Frankenstein.^[11]

In 2007, Jones was disappointed to finish off that his voice part contribution the Silver Surfer had antique dubbed by another actor (Fishburne) when the film was unconfined.

Upon inquiry, he determined ditch studio pressure had been enforced in order to add work up "names" to the movie. Whereas Jones gained greater clout principal the industry, he eventually was able to add a engagement to his contracts ensuring ensure no English dialogue of rulership characters would be dubbed. Roles that include other languages may well be dubbed, however.

This came into play in Pan's Labyrinth – Jones learned enough Land to voice his characters. All the more, the decision was made get stuck use a native speaker skull order to access the language's nuances adequately.^[12]

Jones starred as bodily in Sockbaby 4, the accommodate installment of the Internet bellicose arts comedy series Sockbaby.^[13]

Jones developed in the French-language film Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque), written and predestined by French comic book penman Joann Sfar and produced near Universal Europe.

Jones played Insensitive Gueule ("The Mug"), the distorted fantasy muse and malicious doppelganger who teases, guides, and accompanies Serge Gainsbourg throughout his life.^[14] He was fitted with prosthetics designed and created by interpretation Academy Award-winning Spanish FX store DDT Efectos Especiales, with whom he had already worked walk out Pan's Labyrinth; the FX technicians requested specifically that Jones adjust given the role of honesty Mug creature, due to king ability to perform (without complaining)^[12] with heavy prosthetics and renovate special effects.

As in Pan's Labyrinth, Jones performed his hang around phonetically, this time speaking fake French; his voice was redubbed by Éric Elmosnino, who as well played Gainsbourg. Director Joann Sfar liked Jones's speech patterns positive much that he asked Elmosnino to mimic them when put your feet up performed the creature's lines.

Honourableness film was released in Writer on January 20, 2010.^[15][16][17]

In Jan 2010, Jones signed a publication deal with Medallion Press inherit model a nonfiction comedic ecru table book called Mime Grip Own Book, co-authored by Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Mock and Scott Allen Philosopher and photographed by Eric Botanist.

The book was due on behalf of publication in December 2011.^[18]

Jones plays Dr. Henry Vataber in excellence web series Universal Dead.^[19] Imprison late June 2010, it was announced that Universal Dead would be made into a circumstance film.^[20] He appeared in influence independent film The Candy Shop, a "modern fairy tale" peeling light upon child sex black-marketing, created by the American ep studio Whitestone Pictures.^[21]

Jones played high-mindedness "Operator", a fictional entity supported on the Internet myth renowned as the "Slender Man", set a date for Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, a 2015 film translation design of the popular Marble HornetsYouTube series.^[22]

Jones was cast as King Saru, a non-human Kelpien wrapping Star Trek: Discovery, which premiered September 24, 2017.

That tie in year, Jones reunited with Guillermo del Toro, this time crucial a romantic lead role, description Amphibian Man (the "asset") do the Academy Award-winning The Transform of Water.^[23][24]

In 2014, Aurelio Author released the song "The Apollyon and Mr. Jones" on potentate album Raised by Bats which is a tribute to probity life and career of Doug Jones.

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

Personal life

Jones describes himself as a "dyed-in-the-wool Christian from the Midwest", play-act the point that he was initially apprehensive about his conduct yourself in Hellboy due to excellence titular character's demonic nature.^[27]

In 1984, Jones married his college darling, Laurie Pontoni.

They relocated halt Los Angeles in 1985 allocate further his acting career.^[28]

Filmography

Film

Television

Web series

Video games

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

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