Biography
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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Deadwood: The Movie
2019
as A. W. Merrick
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wo...

10.0 Earthquake
2014
as Gladstone
Los Angeles is about to be hit by a devastating earthquake, and time is running out to save the city from imminent danger.

Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
as Charles Colebaugh (uncredited)
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Inside Story: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2011
as Self
An inside look at the making of the 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

Love & Other Drugs
2010
Stunt Driver
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly inf...

Who's Your Caddy?
2007
as Richard Cummings
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...

Who Is Ferris Bueller?
2006
as Self
A short documentary that looks at the qualities that define the title character in the classic film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," told through interview...

The Making of Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Production Stories
2006
as Self
The cast and crew of Ferris Bueller's Day Off share memories of making the film.

Night of Henna
2005
Producer
A beautiful Pakistani woman has to make a choice between her true love or an arranged marriage by her family.

The Making of 'Amadeus'
2002
as Self - Emperor Joseph II
This riveting film takes a look behind the scenes at one of the 20th century's cinema classics and at one of contemporary cinema's most maddeningly br...

Par 6
2002
as Lloyd Bator Jenkins
A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothers and sisters.

How High
2001
as Vice President
Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance ...

Dr. Dolittle 2
2001
as Joe Potter
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 protec...

Till Dad Do Us Part
2001
as Brady
Banker Gavin Corbett refuses, unlike his wife Virginia, who would just wait, to stand by as his spoiled daughter Rebecca `Becky` announces she wants t...

Heartbreakers
2001
as Mr. Appel
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. ...

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.

Company Man
2000
as Senator Biggs
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 sen...

Stuart Little
1999
as Uncle Crenshaw
When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic....

Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Reverend Steenwyck
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitat...

Flypaper
1999
as Roger
Greed, lust and fate bring together a motley collection of oddballs and lowlifes for some rather sticky situations in Hoch's twisted neo-noir debut. T...

Ravenous
1999
as Hart
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving...

There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
as Minister Pete
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than tr...

The Devil's Advocate
1997
as Eddie Barzoon
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...

Santa Fe
1997
as Dr. Raskin (uncredited)
A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.

The Pest
1997
as Gustav
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 t...

The Crucible
1996
as Thomas Putnam
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

The Avenging Angel
1995
as Brother Milton Long
Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involvin...

Houseguest
1995
as Ron Timmerman
In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.

Ed Wood
1994
as Criswell
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...

Heaven & Earth
1993
as Minister (uncredited)
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters...

Out on a Limb
1992
as Matt Skearns / Peter Van Der Haven
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 hi...

Stay Tuned
1992
as Spike
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 ...

Mom and Dad Save the World
1992
as Dick Nelson
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...

Enid Is Sleeping
1990
as Floyd
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, where...

The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Skip Tyler
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 Ameri...

Valmont
1989
as Gercourt
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 h...

Who's Harry Crumb?
1989
as Eliot Draisen
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 beca...

Without a Clue
1988
as Inspector Lestrade
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 ha...

Beetlejuice
1988
as Charles
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

The Gambler: The Legend Continues
1987
as Buffalo Bill
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...

DTV: Monster Hits
1987
as Man in the Magic Mirror
A Halloween special featuring appropriately-themed rock and roll songs set to scenes from the Disney library of classic animation.

The Hanoi Hilton
1987
as Fischer
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known a...
George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
1986
as Thomas Jefferson
The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.

Howard the Duck
1986
as Dr. Walter Jenning
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, fr...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
as Ed Rooney
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 througho...

Transylvania 6-5000
1985
as Lepescu
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter the sensitive Wolfman...

Amadeus
1984
as Emperor Joseph II
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese...

Atalanta Strategy
1984
as Interviewer
The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

Easy Money
1983
as Clive Barlow
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.

The Soldier
1982
as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Secret Service
1977
as Sgt. Wilson
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.

The Revolutionary
1970
as Red-Haired Radical Committee Member
"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radica...