List of Tommy Lee Jones performances

American actor and film director Tommy Lee Jones has appeared in numerous films and television series since his acting debut in 1970. One of his first notable roles was as Oliver "Doolittle Mooney" Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter with Sissy Spacek (1980). He then went on to play one of his most notable roles as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive with Harrison Ford. He has had starring roles in the films The Client (1994), Natural Born Killers (1994), Cobb (1994), and Volcano (1997). Also in 1997, he was cast as Agent K in the science fiction action comedy film Men in Black opposite Will Smith, a role he went on to reprise in Men in Black II (2002), and Men in Black 3 (2012). Other notable film roles include terrorist William "Bill" Strannix in Under Siege (1992), villain Two-Face in Batman Forever (1995), parole officer Travis Lehman in Double Jeopardy, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp in Man of the House (2005), rancher Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men (2007), Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah (2007), Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and CIA Director Robert Dewey in Jason Bourne (2016).

Jones in 2005

He has played several real-life people in films, including: businessman Clay Shaw in JFK (1991), Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln (2012), U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor (2012), Joseph L. Galloway in Shock and Awe (2017), and Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe in The Burial (2023).

His notable television roles include playing Howard Hughes in the television film The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) and Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989).

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1970	Love Story	Hank Simpson
1973	Life Study	Gus
1975	Eliza's Horoscope	Tommy Lee
1976	Jackson County Jail	Coley Blake
1977	Rolling Thunder	Master Sergeant Johnny Vohden
1978	The Betsy	Angelo Perino
	Eyes of Laura Mars	Detective John Neville
1980	Coal Miner's Daughter	Oliver "Doolittle Mooney" Lynn
	Barn Burning	Ab Snopes	Short film
1981	Back Roads	Elmore Pratt
1983	Nate and Hayes	Captain "Bully" Hayes
1984	The River Rat	Billy
1985	The Park Is Mine	Mitch Garnett
1986	Black Moon Rising	Sam Quint
1987	The Big Town	George Cole
1988	Stormy Monday	Cosmo
	Gotham	Eddie Mallard
1989	The Package	Thomas Boyette
1990	Fire Birds	Captain Brad Little
1991	JFK	Clay Shaw / Clay Bertrand
1992	Under Siege	William Strannix
1993	House of Cards	Jake Beerlander
	The Fugitive	Samuel Gerard		[1]
	Heaven & Earth	Steve Butler
1994	Blown Away	Ryan Gaerity
	The Client	Roy "Reverend Roy" Foltrigg		[2]
	Natural Born Killers	Warden Dwight McClusky
	Blue Sky	Major Hank Marshall
	Cobb	Ty Cobb
1995	Batman Forever	Harvey Dent / Two-Face
1997	Volcano	Michael Roark
	Men in Black	Kevin Brown / Agent K
1998	U.S. Marshals	Samuel Gerard
	Small Soldiers	Major Chip Hazard (voice)
1999	Double Jeopardy	Travis Lehman
2000	Rules of Engagement	Colonel Hayes "Hodge" Hodges
	Space Cowboys	William "Hawk" Hawkins
2002	Men in Black II	Kevin Brown / Agent K
2003	The Hunted	L.T. Bonham
	The Missing	Samuel Jones
2005	Man of the House	Ranger Lieutenant Roland Sharp	Also executive producer
	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Pete Perkins	Also producer and director
2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Axeman
2007	No Country for Old Men	Sheriff Ed Tom Bell
	In the Valley of Elah	Hank Deerfield
2008	Harvard Beats Yale 29–29	Himself	Documentary
2009	In the Electric Mist	Dave Robicheaux
2010	The Company Men	Gene McClary
2011	Captain America: The First Avenger	Colonel Chester Phillips
	The Sunset Limited	White	Also director
2012	Men in Black 3	Kevin Brown / Agent K
	Hope Springs	Arnold Soames
	Lincoln	Thaddeus Stevens
	Emperor	General Douglas MacArthur
2013	The Family	FBI Agent Robert Stansfield		[3]
2014	The Homesman	George Briggs	Also writer, executive producer and director	[4]
2016	Criminal	Dr. Micah Franks
	Jason Bourne	CIA Director Robert Dewey
	Mechanic: Resurrection	Max Adams
2017	Shock and Awe	Joseph L. Galloway
	Just Getting Started	Leo McKay
2019	Ad Astra	Clifford McBride
2020	Wander	Jimmy Cleats
	The Comeback Trail	Duke Montana
2023	Finestkind	Ray Eldridge		[5]
	The Burial	Jerry O'Keefe		[6]
TBA	The Razor's Edge		Filming	[7]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1971–1975	One Life to Live	Dr. Mark Toland	21 episodes
1975	Barnaby Jones	Dr. Jim Melford	Episode: "Fatal Witness"
1976	Smash-Up on Interstate 5	Officer Hutton	TV film
	Baretta	Sharky	Episode: "Dead Man Out"
	Charlie's Angels	Aram Kolegian	Episode: "Charlie's Angels"
	Family	David Needham	Episode: "Coming of Age"
1977	The Amazing Howard Hughes	Howard Hughes	TV film
1982	The Executioner's Song	Gary Gilmore
	The Rainmaker	Starbuck
1984	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	"Brick" Pollitt
1985	The Park is Mine	Mitch
1986	Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent	Steve Daley
1987	Broken Vows	Peter Joseph McMahon
1988	Stranger on My Land	Bud Whitman
	April Morning	Moses Cooper
1989	Lonesome Dove	Woodrow F. Call	Miniseries; 4 episodes	[8]
1995	The Good Old Boys	Hewey Calloway	TV film; also director
2011	The Sunset Limited	White	TV film; also director and executive producer

Stage

Year	Production	Role	Venue	Ref.
1969	A Patriot for Me	Various	Imperial Theatre
1971	Four on a Garden	Joel	Broadhurst Theatre
1974	Ulysses in Nighttown	Stephen Dedalus	Winter Garden Theatre
1980	True West	Austin	Joseph Papp Public Theater

References

1. "The Fugitive". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
2. Roger Ebert (July 20, 1994). "The Client movie review and film summary (1994)". Rogerebert.com. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
3. Vlessing, Etan (August 14, 2012). "Toronto 2012: Paul Andrew Williams' 'Song for Marion' to Close 37th Edition". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
4. "2014 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
5. D'Alessandro, Anthony (April 5, 2022). "Paramount+ Picks Up Crime Thriller 'Finestkind' Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace & Jenna Ortega". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
6. Knowles, Lindsay (March 8, 2022). "New film to tell story of landmark case involving Coast funeral home and former Biloxi mayor". wlox.com. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
7. Tommy Lee Jones filming "The Razor's Edge" in Columbus Georgia
8. Limbong, Andrew (March 26, 2021). "'Lonesome Dove' Author Larry McMurtry Has Died". NPR.org. Retrieved June 20, 2022.

External links

• Tommy Lee Jones at IMDb