Tommy M Jones

Tommy Jones

• Nickname TLJ
  Tom
  
• Biography Born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Clyde C. and Lucille Marie (Scott) Jones, Tommy Lee Jones worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious...
  
• Write biography Maria Vitale <[email protected]>
  
• Spouse Kimberlea Cloughley (30 May 1981 - 23 March 1996) (divorced); 2 children
  Kate Lardner (I) (31 December 1971 - 9 February 1978) (divorced)
  Dawn Jones (I) (19 March 2001 - present)
  
• Trade Mark Deadpan delivery.
  He frequently plays hard-edged but sarcastic law enforcement andmilitary officers.
  
• Trivia Never took an acting class.
  He and Al Gore (I) were roommates while the two were students atHarvard University. The two remain close friends.
  Part time cattle rancher, owns 3,000-acre ranch near San Antonio, TX.
  Plays polo and raises polo ponies. His team won the U.S. PoloAssociation's Western Challenge Cup in 1993. Invites the Harvard's bestpolo players to his ranch to practice each fall.
  Father's name was Clyde C. Jones -- he did not have a middle name, justan initial.
  Father, with Kimberlea Cloughley, of Austin Leonard Jones(born November 9, 1982) and Victoria Jones (II) (born September3, 1991).
  
• Other Work TV commercial for Red Dog beer (voice of Red Dog)
  TV commercial for SBC (2002)
  Japanese TV commercials for Suntory Boss canned coffee
  
• Biography print Alvin H. Marill. _The Films of Tommy Lee Jones._ Secaucus, NewJersey: Carol Publishing Group, 1998.ISBN 0806517514
  
• Personal quotes Somebody's gonna give you some money to perform a job, you do your bestto make 'em a good hand...
  It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbersof people. That too is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve whencalled on.
  My thanks to the Academy for the very finest, greatest award that anyactor can ever receive. The only thing a man can say at a time likethis is -- I am not really bald.
  I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.
  "I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention sinceday one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying arthistory and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 diffe...
  I really enjoyed a remark that Howard Hawks once made. He said the mostimportant thing is not to ask an actor to do anything he can't do. Samething goes for horses.
  
• Salary U.S. Marshals (1998): $10,000,000.00
  No Country for Old Men (2007): $10,000,000.00
  
• Pictorial "Playboy" (USA), November 1995, Vol. 42, Iss. 11, pg. 129, by: Bruce Williamson, "Sex In Cinema 1995"
  
• Cover Photo "Happenings" (USA), 8 November 2007, Vol. 30, Iss. 44
  "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 12 July 2002, Vol. 1, Iss. 662
  "UFO" (USA), June/July 2002, Vol. 17, Iss. 3
  "Cowboys & Indians" (USA), September 2000, Vol. 8, Iss. 4 (photos by Dawn Laurel)
  "Satellite TV Europe" (UK), February 1999
  "Max" (Hungary), September 1998, Vol. 1, Iss. 7
  
• Filmography

  Men in Black III (2012) Sci-Fi

  Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Adventure

  In the Electric Mist (2009) Mystery

  Islands in the Stream (2010) Drama

  The Company Men (2010) Drama

  The Sunset Limited (2010) (TV) Drama

  Batman Forever (1995) Fantasy

  Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) Biography

  In the Valley of Elah (2007) Mystery

  Sundance Skippy (2009) Biography