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Trivia
Birth Name: Tommy Lee Jones
Date of birth: 15 September 1946
Place of birth: San Saba, Texas, USA
Nickname: Tom
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Spouse: Dawn Jones (19 March 2001 - present),
Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley (30 May 1981 - 1996) (divorced) 2 children,
Kate Lardner (1971 - 1978) (divorced).
Never took an acting class.
He and Al Gore were roommates while the two
were students at Harvard University. The two remain close friends.
Part time cattle rancher, owns 3,000-acre
ranch near San Antonio, TX.
Plays polo and raises polo ponies. His team
won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup in 1993. Invites
the Harvard's best polo players to his ranch to practice each fall.
Father's name was Clyde C. Jones -- he did
not have a middle name, just an initial.
Father, with Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley, of
Austin Leonard Jones (b. 1983) and Victoria Kafka Jones (b. 1991)
Real-life son, Austin Leonard Jones, played
his son, Tommy, in Yuri Nosenko, KGB (1986) (TV).
According to author Erich Segal, Jones and
his then Harvard roommate Al Gore, were the models for the character of
Oliver in Love Story (1970).
Injured after falling from horse during polo
match. [30 October 1998]
Writes most of his own most memorable lines
in films: The Fugitive (1993)... when Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford)
tells Marshal Gerard, "I didn't kill my wife," Gerard replies,
"I don't care!" Under Siege (1992)... William Strannix's
speech after he loses his mind: "Saturday morning cartoons... This
little piggy... " Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) ... John Neville's
revealing speech at the end of the movie.
Ten days after graduating from Harvard, he
landed his first role in the Broadway production of "A Patriot for
Me" (with Maximilian Schell) which closed after 49 performances. He
got his agent after giving a letter of introduction to actress Jane
Alexander. His story of how he found an agent and a Broadway job so
quickly was written about in an issue of "Ripley's Believe It or
Not".
Good friends with: Al Gore, Willie Nelson,
Gary Busey, Oliver Stone and Robert Duvall.
His ex-wife, Kate Lardner, is Ring Lardner's
granddaughter.
Speaks Spanish fluently.
He is a first cousin of Boxcar Willie, a
famous country singer.
Owns the movie rights to Cormac McCarthy's
controversial novel "Blood Meridian", which many consider
unfilmable.
Born on the exact same day as filmmaker and
good friend Oliver Stone.
Was the studio's original (and preferred)
choice to play Snake Plisken in John Carpenter's Escape from New York
(1981). The studio was reluctant to cast Kurt Russell, who ultimately
got the part, because of his previous work.
Has worked with two "Katherine Hepburns."
In The Amazing Howard Hughes, he played Hughes opposite Tovah Feldshuh
as Hepburn. In The Missing, his daughter is played by Cate Blanchett,
who played Hepburn in The Aviator--another biopic about Howard Hughes.
Is the only Texan to have played fellow
Texan Howard Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator), Jason Robards
(Melvin and Howard) and Terry O'Quinn (The Rocketeer) were born in
California, Illinois, and Michigan, respectively.
Is an avid San Antonio Spurs fan.
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