Jones played La Gueule ("The Mug"), the grotesque fantasy muse and malicious doppelganger who teases, guides, and accompanies Serge Gainsbourg throughout his life. Jones appeared in the French-language film Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque), written and directed by French comic book author Joann Sfar and produced by Universal Europe. Jones starred as himself in Sockbaby 4, the fourth installment of the Internet martial arts comedy series Sockbaby. In 2009, del Toro announced on BBC Radio that Jones would be playing the monster in his upcoming version of Frankenstein. He also played two other roles in the film: the Angel of Death and the Chamberlain, both under heavy prosthetics. He reprised his role as Abe Sapien in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, once more under the direction of del Toro, for which he provided both the voice and body performance. 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). In February 2007, Jones' likeness was used for Nvidia's "Human Head" tech demo. 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. Caligari, the film receiving three awards at the Screamfest Horror Festival in Los Angeles, including the Audience Choice Award. The year also brought success for The Cabinet of Dr. 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. He also has a secondary role in the film as the Pale Man, a gruesome creature with a penchant for eating children. In 2005, he renewed his association with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, starring as the Faun in del Toro's multiple- Academy Award-winning Spanish-language fantasy/horror project Pan's Labyrinth. 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." He performed as Abe Sapien in Hellboy, although the voice was performed by an uncredited David Hyde Pierce. I once squished into a box for a commercial for relaxed fit jeans".Īlthough 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. They'll want somebody to hold a box of Tide funny or something. Jones has worked as a contortionist, saying, "You'd be surprised how many times that comes into play in commercials. 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. He graduated from Ball State University, where he parlayed his background as a mime into portraying the school mascot " Charlie Cardinal". Jones was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the youngest of four brothers, and attended Bishop Chatard High School.
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