Jeffrey Jones

...watching "Changing Channels, when I wasn't too busy laughing too hard to think, was a 1992 movie called Stay Tuned, with Jeffrey Jones as a soul-hunting demon, and John Ritter and Pam Dawber as the hapless mortals he sends into the boob...

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Jones was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Ruth (nee Schooley), an art historian who urged Jones towards a career in acting, and Douglas Bennett Jones, who died during Jones's childhood. Jones went to London in 1969 to study at the...

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...is 84. Actress Brigitte Bardot is 75. Singer Ben E. King is 71. Actor Joel Higgins is 66. Singer Helen Shapiro is 63. Actor Jeffrey Jones is 63. Movie writer-director-actor John Sayles is 59. Actress Sylvia Kristel is 57. Rock musician...

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...who defined a generation. If you show up tonight (starting at 7:30 PM), you'll get to fire off questions at the great Jeffrey Jones (Principal Ed Rooney), Edie McClurg ("GRACE!!!"), and Cindy Pickett (the loving, if completely oblivious...

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...and entitlement a consequence for having any parents at all. His movies turned adults and authority figures into buffoons - Jeffrey Jones and Edie McClurg in "Bueller,'' Paul Gleason in "The Breakfast Club'' - or bullies (John Ashton in...

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Characters and cast: Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick), Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara), Ed Rooney (Jeffery Jones) and Jeanie Bueller (Jennifer Grey). Killer quote: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and...

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..."My family and I are deeply saddened and in shock. Our only goal is to support his family and make sure they're fine. " Jeffrey Jones (played Dean Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off): "I'm just shocked and surprised and really...

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...suburb enclave. So long as he doesn't snort coke or suck off the football team, Ferris's upbringing allows him the luxury of flitting all he wants like he actually earns his joie de vivre, all the while knowing that at the end of the day he...

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...faux tough guy act, his easily flappable manner, serves as a master class on how to play the buffoon. Jones also saves the movie because he makes you root for Ferris from start to finish. Meanwhile, the boy's parents (Lyman Ward and Cindy...

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...friends," responds the beaver, who goes on to make an "offer" the kindhearted hero cannot refuse: A heartless developer (Jeffrey Jones) and his smarmy lawyer (Kevin Pollak) are out to make mulch of the animals' wilderness home. And he's their...

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