Davy Jones is a fictional character from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and is loosely based on the old seaman's legend of Davy Jones’ Locker. Jones made his first appearance as the main antagonist in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest portrayed by actor Bill Nighy through Motion capture. The computer-generated imagery used to complete Jones was highly praised, and named by Entertainment Weekly as the second most convincing computer generated film character in film history. The work on Davy Jones by Industrial Light and Magic earned Dead Man's Chest the 2006 Academy Award for Visual Effects. Nighy returns to reprise his role of Davy Jones in the third film, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. as one of two main antagonists (the other being Cutler Beckett).
In the Pirates trilogy, Davy Jones is the captain of the Flying Dutchman (a feared ghost ship featured in nautical lore by the same name), and roams the seas in search of souls to serve upon his vessel for a century. He was previously the lover of Calypso, a "heathen goddess". Jones is the legend behind the fictitious Dead Man's Chest, a major aspect of the the second film.
