Tommy Lee Jones
Date of birth: 1946-09-15
Place of birth: San Saba, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Tomî Rî Jônzu, Tom Lee Jones, 토미 리 존스, トミーリージョーンズ, 湯米·李·瓊斯, تامی لی جونز
Biography
Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive. His other notable starring roles include Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the television miniseries Lonesome Dove, Agent K in the Men in Black film series, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah, the villain Two-Face in Batman Forever, Mike Roark in the disaster film Volcano, terrorist William "Bill" Strannix in Under Siege, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp in Man of the House, rancher Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (which he also directed), Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger, CIA Director Robert Dewey in Jason Bourne, and Warden Dwight McClusky in Natural Born Killers. He most recently appeared in the science fiction film Ad Astra in 2019 and in the comedy The Comeback Trail in 2020. He has also portrayed historical figures such as businessman Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, executed murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor, businessman Clay Shaw, the only person prosecuted in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in JFK, Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, in Coal Miner's Daughter, and baseball player Ty Cobb in Cobb.
Movie Credits
Blown Away
1994-07-01
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove le
Natural Born Killers
1994-08-26
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by
Batman Forever
1995-06-16
Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harv
Men in Black
1997-07-02
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a t
Men in Black II
2002-07-03
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress
JFK
1991-12-20
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011-07-22
During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier
The Hunted
2003-03-11
In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Halla
Volcano
1997-04-25
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causi
Double Jeopardy
1999-09-24
Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants t
The Client
1994-07-20
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who
Rules of Engagement
2000-04-07
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surroun
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984-08-19
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual
The Fugitive
1993-08-06
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the l
Space Cowboys
2000-08-04
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daeda
Rolling Thunder
1977-11-02
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He
Jackson County Jail
1976-03-31
A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-countr
Fire Birds
1990-05-25
A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been
Small Soldiers
1998-07-10
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their bat
U.S. Marshals
1998-03-06
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane
In the Valley of Elah
2007-09-14
A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's d
No Country for Old Men
2007-11-09
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but met
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005-11-17
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of
The Package
1989-08-25
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Bo
Heaven & Earth
1993-12-25
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before dec
The Missing
2003-11-26
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by
Under Siege
1992-10-08
A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battle
Stormy Monday
1988-05-01
When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, Englan
Love Story
1970-12-16
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they ca
A Prairie Home Companion
2006-06-01
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show,
Man of the House
2005-02-25
Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in
Nate and Hayes
1983-11-18
Nathaniel Williamsen is taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie. Their ship, the Rona, is
Men in Black 3
2012-05-23
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978-08-02
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial kill
In the Electric Mist
2009-04-15
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local h
Black Moon Rising
1986-01-10
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Gotham
1988-08-21
A New York private eye searches for a socialite who supposedly drowned 10 years before.
Cobb
1994-12-02
Al Stump is a famous sports-writer chosen by Ty Cobb to co-write his official, authorized 'autobiogr
Back Roads
1981-03-13
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural S
The Company Men
2010-10-21
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the
The Burial
2023-10-06
When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-tal
Double Image
1986-04-06
This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
2008-11-19
Filmmaker and author Kevin Rafferty takes viewers back to 1968 to witness a legendary college footba
Coal Miner's Daughter
1980-03-07
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
The River Rat
1984-09-28
On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent fat
The Big Town
1987-09-25
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who le
House of Cards
1993-06-25
When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handle
The Executioner's Song
1982-09-10
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a length
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977-04-13
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker H
The Park Is Mine
1986-07-24
A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vi
Hope Springs
2012-08-07
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling sessio
Lincoln
2012-11-09
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divide
The Sunset Limited
2011-02-12
A deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor wh
Blue Sky
1994-09-16
Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assign
The Betsy
1978-02-02
Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the w
April Morning
1988-04-24
A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.
Flannery
2019-10-25
Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before
Emperor
2012-09-14
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohi
The Family
2013-09-13
After ratting out his Mafia cohorts, Giovanni Manzoni and his family enter the Witness Protection Pr
Finestkind
2023-09-08
Two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks are reunited as adults. Desperate circumstances force
Broken Vows
1987-01-28
When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he beco
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
2007-04-27
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández is a 2007 American documentary film that investigates the murky kil
Inside the Golden Statue
1998-01-01
A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Award
The Homesman
2014-05-18
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, t
The Good Old Boys
1995-03-05
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintainin
The Cutting Edge
2003-08-12
Behind the scenes of The Hunted.
Filming “The Hunted”
2003-08-12
Behind the scenes of The Hunted.
Pursuing “The Hunted”
2003-08-12
Behind the scenes of The Hunted.
Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever?
1995-06-14
How a new director and cast created a new version of Gotham's classic good and bad guys.
Mechanic: Resurrection
2016-08-25
Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps
Criminal
2016-04-07
CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he get
Reach for the Stars
2019-12-17
Multipart Documentaries released with the BluRay of the movie, looking into the creation and product
Jason Bourne
2016-07-27
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about
The Fugitive: Thrill of the Chase
2013-09-03
Join Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano, director Andrew Davis and their collaborators i
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013-04-27
With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind
The Razor's Edge
A former mob hitman faces a dilemma when his daughter is kidnapped and his love interest targeted. H
Just Getting Started
2017-12-01
Duke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993-01-20
This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the
Stranger on My Land
1988-01-17
A Vietnam veteran has to fight peacefully with words once more when the Air Force wants to expropria
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976-02-02
In this made-for-TV disaster movie, the lives of a group of motorists are chronicled retrospectively
Eliza's Horoscope
1975-01-01
A young woman arrives to Montreal to find love. A fortune teller tells her that a wealthy man meant
The Rainmaker
1982-10-23
Traveling rainmaker Starbuck arrives at the drought-ridden Curry place, promising rain for the farm
Life Study
1973-01-25
The romance of young Italian-American boy Angelo and a rich, eccentric, lonely girl Myrna.
Shock and Awe
2017-12-09
A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the
Metamorphosis of 'Men in Black'
2000-09-05
An in-depth look into the creation of the special effects for the film Men in Black (1997). Various
Barn Burning
1980-03-17
Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves
Always at The Carlyle
2018-05-11
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
2008-03-11
A piece featuring additional cast and crew interview snippets and behind-the-scenes footage. We find
Wander
2020-12-04
After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable pri
The Comeback Trail
2020-11-12
Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to
Design in Motion: The Look of 'Men in Black II'
2002-11-26
A look at the art direction of Men in Black II (2002)
Barry Sonnenfeld's Intergalactic Guide to Comedy
2002-11-26
Provides a few minutes of joking around about how director Barry Sonnenfeld's dry comedy style works
The Making of Men in Black
1997-11-04
Behind the scenes of Men in Black (1997)
Ad Astra
2019-09-17
The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond.
Lincoln: An American Journey
2013-01-16
Documentary on the making of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012).
The Making of 'No Country for Old Men'
2008-02-22
A look behind the scenes of No Country for Old Men (2007), including interviews with cast and crew.
Charlie's Angels
1976-03-21
The Angels head for wine country to discover what happened to a missing man before he's declared leg