# Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones (n. en 1946) es un actor e realizator american de cinèma qu'a recebut un Oscar del melhor actor dins un segond ròtle en 2003 amb lo filme The Fugitive.
Es conegut sustot per las siás interpretacions de "Samuel Gerard" dins Lo fugitiu e U.S. Marshals, Double Face A Batman Forever, e "Agent K" dins lo filme de sciéncia ficcion Men in Black, " Woodrow F. Cali" dins la sèria Lonesome Dove e lo schèrif Ed Tom Bell dins No Country for Old Men.

## Biografia

Nascut lo 15 de setembre de 1942 a San Saba, al còr de Tèxas, Tommy Lee Jones pòt èsser considerat coma un "vertadièr nòrd-american": non solament de per sos ancessors galeses mas tanben de per sos grands cherokees.
Coma lo sieu paire, Tommy Lee Jones trabalhèt al començament dins l'indústria del petròli e en bastiments sosmarins. Après lo sieu passatge per la prestigiosa St. Mark's School of Texas, una escòla reservada al futur elèit masculina americana, dintrèt a l'universitat de Harvard, ont parteja la siá cambra amb Al Gore.
L'universitat foguèt tanben l'escasença per Tommy Lee Jones de mostrar lo sieu talent coma jogaire de fotbòl american. Malgrat aiçò, dètz jorns après aver recebut lo sieu diplòma de literatura anglesa, Tommy dintra, a 23 ans, dins lo mond de l'espectacle per una òbra titolada A Patriot for Me, a Broadway. Après quaranta nòu representacions, se lança dins lo cinèma jos la direccion d'Arthur Hiller a Love Story (alavetz amb lo nom de Tom Lee Jones).

### Aparicions en el cinèma

* Hank, Love Story, Paramount, 1970 (primièr film)
* Tommy, Eliza's Horoscope, O-Zali Films, 1970
* Gus, Life Study, Nebbco, 1972
* Coley Blake, Jackson County Jail (tanben contegut coma The Innocent Victim and Outside Chance), New World, 1976
* Johnny Vohden, Rolling Thunder, American International Pictures, 1977
* Angelo Perino, The Betsy (tanben conegut coma Harold Robbins' The Betsey), Allied Artists, 1978
* John Neville, Eyes of Laura Mars, Columbia, 1978
* Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn, Coal Miner's Daughter, Universal, 1980
* Elmore Pratt, Back Roads, Warner Bros., 1981
* Captain Bully Hayes, Nate and Hayes (tanben conegut coma Savage Islands), Paramount, 1983
* Billy, The River Rat, Paramount, 1984
* Quint, Black Moon Rising, New World, 1986
* George Cole, The Big Town, Columbia, 1987
* Cosmo, Stormy Monday, Atlantic Releasing, 1988
* Thomas Boyette, The Package, Orion, 1989
* Brad Little, Fire Birds (tanben conegut coma Wings of the Apache), Buena Vista, 1990
* Clay Shaw, JFK, Warner Bros., 1991
* William Strannix, Under Siege (tanben conegut coma Piege an haute mer), Warner Bros., 1992
* Himself, Beyond "JFK": The Question of Conspiracy (documentary), 1992
* U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard, The Fugitive, Warner Bros., 1993
* Steve Butler, Heaven & Earth (tanben conegut coma Entre ciel et terre), Warner Bros., 1993
* Dr. Jake Beerlander, House of Cards, Miramax, 1993
* Colonel Hank Marshall, Blue Sky, Orion, 1994
* Ryan Gaerity, Blown Away, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1994
* Dwight McClusky, Natural Born Killers, Warner Bros., 1994
* "Reverend" Roy Foltrigg, The Client, Warner Bros., 1994
* Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (title role), Cobb, Warner Bros., 1994
* Harvey "Two-face" Dent, Batman Forever (tanben conegut coma Forever), Warner Bros., 1995
* Mike Roark, Volcano, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997
* Agent K, Men in Black (tanben conegut coma MIB), Columbia, 1997
* Chief Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard, U.S. Marshals, Warner Bros., 1998
* Voice of Chip Hazard, Small Soldiers (tanben conegut coma Commando Elite), DreamWorks, 1998
* Travis Lehman, Double Jeopardy (tanben conegut coma Double Condamnation and Doppelmord), Paramount, 1999
* Colonel Hayes "Hodge" Hodges, Rules of Engagement (tanben conegut coma Les regles d'engagement and Rules--Sekunden der Entscheidung), Paramount, 2000
* Colonel William "Hawk" Hawkins, Space Cowboys, Warner Bros., 2000
* Agent K, Men in Black II (tanben conegut coma MIB 2 and MIIB), Columbia, 2002
* L. T. Bonham, The Hunted, Paramount, 2003
* Television Appearances
* Movies
* Officer Hutton, Smash-up on Interstate 5, ABC, 1976
* Title role, The Amazing Howard Hughes, CBS, 1977
* Abner Snopes, "Barn Burning," American Short Stories (tanben conegut coma American Short Story Collection: The Barn Burning), 1980
* Bill Starbuck, The Rainmaker, HBO, 1982
* Mitch Harris, The Park Is Mine, HBO, 1985
* Steve Daley, Yuri Nosenko, KGB, HBO, 1986
* Father Joseph McMahon, Broken Vows (tanben conegut coma Hennesseyand Where the Dark Streets Go), CBS, 1987
* Buddy Whitman, Stranger on My Land, ABC, 1988
* Moses Cooper, "April Morning," Hallmark Hall of Fame, CBS, 1988
* Eddie Martel Mallard, Gotham (tanben conegut coma The Dead Can't Lie), Showtime, 1988
* Hewey Collaway, The Good Old Boys, TNT, 1995

### Minisséries

* Gary Mark Gilmore, The Executioner's Song, NBC, 1982
* Woodrow F. Call, Lonesome Dove, CBS, 1989
* Specials
* Brick Pollitt, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Showtime, 1984, then broadcast on American Playhouse, PBS, 1985
* Texas 150: A Celebration, ABC, 1986
* Lonesome Dove: The Making of an Epic, The Nashville Network, 1992
* Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever?, ABC, 1995
* Interviewee, "Al Gore: A Burning Ambition," Biography, Arts and Entertainment, 1997
* The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS, 1998
* Narrator, Intimate Portrait: Tipper Gore, Lifetime, 2000
* The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS, 2000
* The Making of "Space Cowboys," 2000

## Referéncias

* ↑ http://www.filmreference.com/film/98/Tommy-Lee-Jones.html Tommy Lee Jones Biography (1946- )
* Portal del cinèma