Doug Jones Biography

Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American actor and former contortionist known for roles in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres, often wearing heavy makeup to play nonhuman characters. He has appeared in films such as Hocus Pocus. He also appeared as Abe Sapien in the supernatural superhero film Hellboy and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Jones is also knowing for playing the villain the Pale Man and the Faun in Pan's Labyrinth and portrayed the titular Silver Surfer in the superhero film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, as well as the TV series Falling Skies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Personal life

Jones was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the youngest of four brothers, and attended Bishop Chatard High School. He graduated from Ball State University, where he parlayed his background as a mime into portraying the school mascot "Charlie Cardinal". He describes himself as a "dyed-in-wool Christian from the Midwest", to the point that he was initially apprehensive about his role in Hellboy, as the titular character is a demon.

Career

Jones has worked as a contortionist. "You"?d be surprised how many times that comes into play in commercials. They"?ll want somebody to hold a box of Tide funny or something. I once squished into a box for a commercial for relaxed fit jeans".

Although known mostly for his work under prosthetic makeup, such as the zombie Billy Butcherson in the Disney Halloween film Hocus Pocus, or the lead Spy Morlock in the 2002 remake of the 1960 film The Time Machine, he has also performed without prosthetics in such films as Adaptation, Mystery Men, and Batman Returns, and indie projects such as Stefan Haves' Stalled, AntiKaiser Productions' Three Lives, Phil Donlon's A Series of Small Things, and as Cesare in David Fisher's 2005 remake of the 1920 silent classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. He performed as Abe Sapien in Hellboy, although the voice was performed by an uncredited David Hyde Pierce. Explaining the challenge of working so often in rubber suits and prosthetics, he notes, "I have to make that a part of my being and my physicality and again, acting is a full body experience and that's a part of it when you're doing a costumed character."

In 2005, he renewed his association with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, starring as the Faun in del Toro's multiple-Oscar-winning Spanish-language fantasy/horror project El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth). He also has a secondary role in the film as 'The Pale Man', a gruesome creature with a penchant for eating children. Working once more under heavy prosthetics in both roles, he was also required to learn large amounts of dialogue in Spanish, though ultimately his voice was dubbed anyway.

The year also brought success for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the film receiving three awards at the Screamfest Horror Festival in Los Angeles, including the Audience Choice Award. In 2006, Jones appeared in the feature films The Benchwarmers and Lady in the Water, and reprised his role as Abe Sapien by voicing the character in the new Hellboy Animated television project, recording two 75-minute animated films.

In February 2007, Jones' likeness was used for Nvidia's "Human Head" tech demo.c

In June 2007, Jones appeared in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as the Silver Surfer (though Laurence Fishburne provided the character's voice). He reprised his role as Abe Sapien in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, once more under the direction of Guillermo del Toro, for which he played both the voice and body performance. He also played two other roles in the film: the Angel of Death and the Chamberlain, both under heavy prosthetics. In 2009, del Toro announced on BBC Radio that Jones would be playing the monster in his upcoming version of Frankenstein.

Jones starred as himself in Sockbaby 4, the fourth installment of the Internet martial arts comedy series Sockbaby.

Jones appeared in the French-language film Gainsbourg (Vie hroque), written and directed by French comic-book author Joann Sfar and produced by Universal Europe. Jones played La Gueule ("The Mug"), the grotesque fantasy muse and malicious doppelganger who teases, guides, and accompanies Serge Gainsbourg throughout his life. He worked under prosthetics designed and created by the Oscar-winning Spanish FX shop DDT Efectos Especiales, with whom he had already worked on Pan's Labyrinth: the FX technicians requested specifically that Jones be given the role of the Mug creature, due to his ability to perform with heavy prosthetics and elaborate special effects. As in Pan's Labyrinth, Jones performed his lines phonetically, this time speaking in French; his voice was redubbed by ric Elmosnino, who also played Gainsbourg. Director Joann Sfar liked Jones' speech patterns so much that he asked Elmosnino to mimic it when he performed the creature's lines. The film was released in France on January 20, 2010.

In January 2010, Jones signed a book deal with Medallion Press to model a nonfiction comedic coffee-table book called Mime Very Own Book, co-written by Adam Mock and Scott Allen Perry, and photographed by Eric Curtis. The book was due for publication in December 2011.

Jones plays Dr. Henry Vataber in the web series, Universal Dead. In late June 2010, it was announced that Universal Dead will be made into a feature film.

Jones appeared in the independent film, The Candy Shop, a "modern fairy tale" shedding light upon child sex trafficking created by the Georgia film studio, Whitestone Pictures.

Jones appeared as the Operator, a fictional entity based on the Internet myth known as the Slender Man, in Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story a 2014 film adaptation of the popular Marble Hornets YouTube series.

Jones was Cast in Star Trek: Discovery in November 2016

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	The Newlydeads	Tim
1990	Night Angel	Ken
1991	Carnal Crimes	Lang	Direct-to-video
1992	Batman Returns	Thin Clown
1993	Hocus Pocus	Billy Butcherson
1993	Magic Kid	Clown in Office	Direct-to-video
1995	Tank Girl	Additional Ripper
1996	The Adventures of Galgameth	Big Galgy
1997	Mimic	Long John #2
1997	Warriors of Virtue	Yee	Voiced by Doug Parker
1998	Bug Buster	Mother Bug
1998	Denial	Ghost	Direct-to-video
1999	Mystery Men	Pencilhead
1999	Three Kings	Dead Iraqi Soldier
2000	Stalled	Len
2000	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	FBI Agent - Carrot
2000	Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman	Dave	Direct-to-video
2001	Steven Spielberg's Movie	Donald Columbus	Short film
2001	Monkeybone	Yeti
2002	Adaptation.	Augustus Margary
2002	Men in Black II	Joey
2002	Side Effects	Seth	Short film
2002	The Time Machine	Spy Morlock
2003	Stuck on You	Space Alien #2
2004	Three Lives	Mysterious Caller / Mortician	Short film
2004	Hellboy	Abe Sapien	Voiced by David Hyde Pierce
2005	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	Cesare
2005	Doom	Carmack Imp / Sewer Imp
2005	A Series of Small Things	The Homeless Man	Short film
2006	The Benchwarmers	Number 7 Robot
2006	Lady in the Water	Tartutic #4
2006	Pan's Labyrinth	The Faun / The Pale Man	Voiced by Pablo Adn
2006	Hellboy: Sword of Storms	Abe Sapien (voice)	Direct-to-video
2006	Nora Breaks Free	Yoga Instructor	Short film
2007	Carnies	Ratcatcher
2007	Hellboy: Blood and Iron	Abe Sapien (voice)	Direct-to-video
2007	Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer	Norrin Radd/The Silver Surfer	Voiced by Laurence Fishburne
2007	The Wager	Peter Barrett
2008	Quarantine	Thin Infected Man
2008	Sockbaby	Himself	Short film
2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Abe Sapien / Angel of Death / The Chamberlain
2008	The Job	Office Manager	Short film
2009	My Name is Jerry	Jerry
2009	Pie & Coffee	Homeless Man	Short film
2009	Super Capers	Special Agent Smith #1
2009	The Butterfly Circus	Otto	Short film
2010	The Cure	Samuel Bainer	Short film
2010	Gainsbourg (Vie hroque)	La Gueule
2010	Legion	Ice Cream Man
2010	Cyrus	Dr. Arthur
2010	Sudden Death!	Jonathan Wright	Short film
2010	Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey	Zero / Razer (voices)
2010	The Candy Shop	Candy Shop Owner	Short Film
2010	Absentia	Walter Lambert
2010	Greyscale	Jamison
2010	Rock Jocks	Smoking Jesus
2011	End of the Road	Randolph
2011	The Tomorrow Machine	Ben	Short film
2012	It's Alive	Monster	Short film
2012	White Room: 20B3	Fyn-Ke'al	Short film
2012	The Watch	Hero Alien
2012	Saint Alex	Mr. Vanderplook	Short film
2012	John Dies at the End	Robert North
2013	Raze	Joseph
2013	Hookah	Allen	Short film
2013	First Impressions	Suited Man	Short film
2013	Dust of War	Jebediah Strumm
2013	Innocent Blood	Carl Grierr
2013	Cruel Will	Adrian
2014	Love in the Time of Monsters	Dr. Lincoln
2014	Everlast	Suited Man	Short film
2015	Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story''	The Operator
2015	Crimson Peak	Edith's Mother / Lady Sharpe
2016	Ouija: Origin of Evil	Marcus
2016	The Bye Bye Man	The Bye Bye Man	Post-production
2017	The Shape of Water		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	In Living Color		Episode: "#2.24"
1993	Tales from the Crypt	Contortionist	Episode: "Food For Thought"
1993	Silk Stalkings	Artie	Episode: "Love Never Dies"
1994	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Slapstick actor	Episode: "Indiana Jones and Hollywood Follies"
1996	Bone Chillers	Mummy	Episode: "Mummy Dearest"
1997	Unhappily Ever After	Fake Kramer	Episode: "Sternberg"
1997	The Weird Al Show	Contortionist #2	4 episodes
1998	The Outer Limits	Elder Alien / Alien #1 / Alien / Alien Doctor	3 episodes
1998	Kenan & Kel	Head Waiter	Episode: "Attack of the Bug Man"
1999	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Lead Gentleman	Episode: "Hush"
2000	G vs E	Herb	Episode: "Evilator"
2000	The Darkling	Shadow Master	Television film
2001	Unsolved Mysteries	Gordon Page, Jr.	Episode: "#488"
2002	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Grinder	Episode: "Revenge is Best Served Cold"
2003	The Guardian	Micah Oakley	Episode: "Believe"
2004	Rock Me Baby	Auggie the Octopus	Episode: "I Love You, You Don't Love Me"
2004	Significant Others	Waiter	Episode: "A Date, Fate and Jail Bait"
2005, 2008	Criminal Minds	Domino Thacker / Beanie	2 episodes
2007	The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning	Patron	Television film
2008	Fear Itself	Grady Edlund	Episode: "Skin & Bones"
2010	Nick Swardson's Pretend Time	Gay Robot	6 episodes
2012-2013	The Neighbors	Dominique Wilkins	6 episodes
2013-2015	Falling Skies	Cochise	27 episodes
2013	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Future Man	Episode: "Gillian Jacobs Wears a Red Dress with Sail Boats"
2013	Sons of Anarchy	Corrections Officer Crane	Episode: "The Mad King"
2014	Teen Wolf	William Barrow	Episode: "Galvanize"
2014-2015	The Strain	The Ancient / The Master	3 episodes
2015	Arrow	Jake Simmons/Deathbolt	Episode: "Broken Arrow"
2015	The Flash	Jake Simmons/Deathbolt	Episode: "Rogue Air"
2015	Z Nation	Dan Scully	Episode: "Roswell"
2015	The Ultimate Legacy	Hawthorne	Television film
2017	Star Trek: Discovery	Lieutenant Saru	Regular Cast

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Angel of Death	Dr. Rankin	10 episodes
2011	Fallout: Nuka Break	Mayor Conners	3 episodes
2011	Dragon Age: Redemption	Saarebas	3 episodes
2011	The Guild	Gerald	2 episodes
2010	Universal Dead	Dr. Vataber	3 episodes
2012	League of STEAM	Theodore Marshall	Episode: "Dining with the Devil"
2012–2013	Research.	Denny	8 episodes
2013	The Blockbuster Buster	Himself	Episode: "Rocky and Bullwinkle"
2013	Adopted	Lloyd Adams	Episode: "Family Dinner"
2015	Hell's Kitty	Father Damien	2 episodes
2016	Screen Junkies Movie Fights	Himself	1 episode

Video game

Year	Title	Role
2008	Hellboy: The Science of Evil	Abe Sapien (voice)