Happy Birthday Doug Jones! He is a gift for every genre film. Jones started out as Mac Tonight from 1987-1989. He had a role as a clown in Batman Returns (1992) and played Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus (1993). Then, he played a kangaroo fighter in Warriors of Virtue (1997). His first association with director Guillermo del Toro was in Mimic (1997). Jones terrified everyone as the Gentleman in the Buffy the Vampire episode "Hush" (1999). Another del Toro movie had him playing Abe Sabien in Hellboy (2004). One of his greatest roles was as Fauno and the Pale Man in del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006). Jones portrayed the Silver Surfer in Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007). He returned as Abe Sapien and played two other roles including the Angel of Death in del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Doug Jones had a role as Gerald in Felicia Day's The Guild and also played Saarebus in her Dragon Age: Redemption (2011).
Doug Jones had a part as the supervillain Deathbolt in 2015 episodes of Arrow and The Flash. He was the alien, Cochise, in the Falling Skies tv series from 2013-2015. del Toro brought him on again as his muse playing female ghosts in Crimson Peak (2015). Jones also played The Ancient in del Toro's vampiric tv series The Strain from 2014-2016. His latest part for del Toro was in his Academy Award winning film The Shape of Water (2017) as Amphibian Man. At the same time, he was filming the brilliant part as the Kelpian Saru in Star Trek: Discovery and currently plays him on the series. Jones also plays Baron Afanas in the What We Do in the Shadows series. On top of his film and tv roles, Doug Jones is great to meet at conventions. He embraces you, wraps you in a cocoon-like hug with his long arms, he is one of the most gentle souls I've ever met. We wouldn't have believable aliens and figures of horror without him. Happy Birthday Doug Jones!
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