Jon Gries
Movies

Jon Gries

Section Title: Movies
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Year	Title	Role	Notes

1968	Will Penny	Horace (Button)	Credited as Jon Francis

1976	Born of Water	Friend

1977	The Chicken Chronicles	Tom	Credited as Jonathon Gries

1979	Sunnyside	Wild Child	Credited as Jonathon Gries

More American Graffiti	Ron	Credited as Jonathon Gries

Swap Meet	Doug

1983	Joysticks	King Vidiot	Credited as Jonathon Gries

1985	Real Genius	Lazlo Hollyfeld	Credited as Jonathon Gries

1986	TerrorVision	O.D.	Credited as Jonathon Gries

Running Scared	Det. Tony Montoya	Credited as Jonathon Gries

1987	Number One with a Bullet	Bobby Sweet	Credited as Jonathon Gries

The Monster Squad	Desperate Man/Wolfman	Credited as Jonathon Gries

Che's Revenge	Jack	Short

1988	Fright Night Part 2	Louie	Credited as Jonathon Gries

1989	Kill Me Again	Alan Swayzie	Credited as Jonathon Gries

Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog	Max	Credited as Jonathon Gries

1990	The Grifters	Drunk's Friend	Credited as Jonathon Gries

1993	Ed and His Dead Mother	Rob Sundheimer

1995	Get Shorty	Ronnie Wingate

1997	Casualties	Bill Summers

Men in Black	Van Driver

The Maze	Dr. Holmes

Mitzi & Joe	Joe

1999	Twin Falls Idaho	Lawyer Jay Harrison

2001	The Beatnicks	B Cool

Jackpot	Sunny Holiday / Glen Allen Johnson

2003	Northfork	Arnold

The Big Empty	Elron

The Snow Walker	Pierce

The Rundown	Harvey

2004	Napoleon Dynamite	Uncle Rico

2005	Confessions of an Action Star	Donald Buckheim

Waterborne	Ritter

Last Best Chance	Bernard Wheeler	Video

2006	The Sasquatch Gang	Chilcutt

Stick It	Brice Graham

The Astronaut Farmer	FBI Agent Killbourne

Car Babes	Gary

2007	American Pastime	Ed Tully

Bicentennial Curious	Mick Jones	Short

Fathom	Short

September Dawn	John D. Lee

The Comebacks	Barber

Frank	Colin York

2008	Taken	Casey

Bar Starz	Ricky Fabulous

South of Heaven	Hood #1

So Long Jimmy	Levi Franklin

Around June	Murry

2009	Elsewhere	Mr. Tod

The Smell of Success	Early Dunchamp

A Lone Star State	Wyatt Kinney	Short

2010	Crazy on the Outside	Edgar

Good Intentions	Sherriff Ernie

Pearblossom	Harry	Short

2011	Natural Selection	Peter

Not Quite College	Tone Cash

5 Time Champion	Melvin Glee

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead	Tom Sutter

2012	Deep in the Heart	Dick Wallrath

Unicorn City	Shadowhawk

Noobz	Greg Lipstein

Taken 2	Casey

Byron's Theme	Butcher	Short

2013	Bad Turn Worse	Sheriff Shep

A True Story	Richard Simpkins

Skinwalker Ranch	Hoyt

2014	Eternity: The Movie	Barry Goldfield, Jr.

Faults	Terry

Locker 13	Archie	Segment: Title Story

After We Rest	Mr. Norman	Short

The Last Survivors	Carson

Brothers	Ronnie	Short

Taken 3	Casey

2015	Pass the Light	Franklin

Endgame	Principal Thomas

A Country Called Home	Tyler

Mucho Dinero	Jon Waters

2016	Durant's Never Closes	Dizzy Dean

The Axe Murders of Villisca	Greg

Falsely Accused	Gus

The Knife Thrower	Circus Manager

Operation Chromite	Hoyt Vandenberg

2017	All About the Money	Jon Waters

Americons	Billy

2018	Glass Jaw	Sam Austin

Sentence(s)

Jon Gries played Lazlo Hollyfeld in Real Genius (1985), Ronnie Wingate in Get Shorty (1995), Harvey in The Rundown and Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite (2004).

final_sentence: Jon Gries played Lazlo Hollyfeld in Real Genius (1985), Ronnie Wingate in Get Shorty (1995), Harvey in The Rundown and Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite (2004).