In 1989, he earned another Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Texas Ranger Woodrow F.
That same year he starred in a pirate adventure, Nate and Hayes, playing the heavily bearded pirate Captain Bully Hayes.
In 1983, he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in a TV adaptation of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. In 1981, he played a drifter opposite Sally Field in Back Roads, a comedy that received middling reviews.
In 1980, Jones earned his first Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn's husband, Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn, in Coal Miner's Daughter. In films, he played an escaped convict hunted in Jackson County Jail (1976), a Vietnam veteran in Rolling Thunder (1977), an automobile mogul, co-starring with Laurence Olivier in the Harold Robbins drama The Betsy, and Police Detective 'John Neville' opposite Faye Dunaway in the 1978 thriller Eyes of Laura Mars.
It was followed by the acclaimed TV movie The Amazing Howard Hughes, where he played the lead role. He returned to the stage for a short-lived 1974 production of Ulysses in Nighttown, an adaptation of one episode from James Joyce's novel Ulysses, playing Stephen Dedalus opposite Zero Mostel's Leopold Bloom and directed by Burgess Meredith. Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. In early 1971, he returned to Broadway in Abe Burrows' Four on a Garden where he shared the stage with Carol Channing and Sid Caesar. In 1970, he landed his first film role, coincidentally playing a Harvard student in Love Story ( Erich Segal, the author of Love Story, said that he based the lead character of Oliver on aspects of two undergraduate roommates he knew while on a sabbatical at Harvard, Jones and Al Gore). Jones moved to New York to become an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1969's A Patriot for Me in a number of supporting roles. At Harvard, he was a pupil of dramatist Robert Chapman. Jones graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1969 his senior thesis was on "the mechanics of Catholicism" in the works of Flannery O'Connor. As an upperclassman, he stayed in Dunster House with roommates Gore and Bob Somerby, who later became editor of the media criticism site The Daily Howler. He attended Harvard College on need-based aid his roommate was future Vice President Al Gore. Mark's School of Texas in 1965, which he attended on scholarship. Jones soon moved to Dallas and graduated from the St. He was raised in Midland, Texas, and attended the then named Robert E. He has said that he is of part Cherokee descent. Jones (1926–1986), was a cowboy and oil field worker.
His mother, Lucille Marie ( née Scott 1928-2013), was a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and his father, Clyde C. Jones was born on September 15, 1946, in San Saba, Texas. Kennedy in JFK, Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, in Coal Miner's Daughter, and baseball player Ty Cobb in Cobb. Army General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor, businessman Clay Shaw, the only person prosecuted in connection with the assassination of President John F. Jones has also portrayed historical figures such as businessman Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, executed murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song, U.S. He most recently appeared in science fiction film Ad Astra in 2019 and in the comedy The Comeback Trail in 2020. Call in the television miniseries Lonesome Dove, Agent K in the Men in Black film series, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah, the villain Two-Face in Batman Forever, Mike Roark in the disaster film Volcano, terrorist William "Bill" Strannix in Under Siege, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp in Man of the House, rancher Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (which he also directed), Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger, CIA Director Robert Dewey in Jason Bourne, and Warden Dwight McClusky in Natural Born Killers. His other notable starring roles include Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director.