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Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild- and Emmy Award-winning American actor and director. He is well known for his appearances in a string of Hollywood blockbuster films in the 1990s. (more)

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  • Volcano (film): Volcano is a 1997 disaster action film starring Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, and Don Cheadle. It was directed by Mick Jackson, and was released in the United States on April 25, 1997, just months after the release of Dante's Peak, another film about
  • Cobb (film): Cobb is a 1994 baseball film starring Tommy Lee Jones as the legendary baseball player Ty Cobb. It was written and directed by Ron Shelton. The original music score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal. The film's tagline is: "Everyone hated this baseba
  • No Country for Old Men (film): No Country for Old Men is a 2007 crime thriller film adapted for the screen and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem. Adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old M
  • Men in Black II: Men in Black II (also known as MIIB) is a 2002 science fiction comedy action film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The movie also stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson and Rip Torn. It is the sequel to Men in Black, based o
  • Small Soldiers: Small Soldiers is a 1998 action/science fiction film featuring Gregory Smith and Kirsten Dunst with the voice talents of Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella. The film was directed by Joe Dante.
  • Rules of Engagement (film): Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones, directed by William Friedkin. The movie, a military, political, and legal drama, is about Marine Colonel Terry Childers, played by Jackson, who is court-mart
  • Rolling Thunder (film): Rolling Thunder is a 1977 film starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was directed by John Flynn. The screenplay was by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould.
  • House of Cards (1993 film): House of Cards is a 1993 drama film directed by Michael Lessac and starring Kathleen Turner and Tommy Lee Jones. It follows the struggle of a mother to reconnect with her daughter who has been traumatized by the death of her father.
  • Double Jeopardy (film): Double Jeopardy is a thriller film made in 1999, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd, about a woman who is framed for the murder of her husband.
  • Under Siege: Under Siege is a 1992 action film in the Die Hard mold. Directed by Andrew Davis, it stars Steven Seagal as a former Navy SEAL who must stop a group of mercenaries, led by Tommy Lee Jones, on a U.S. Navy battleship. It was followed by a 1995 sequel,
  • Man of the House (2005 comedy film): Man of the House is a 2005 comedy crime film starring Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas Ranger given the thankless task protecting a group of cheerleaders, who have witnessed a murder. Much of the movie was shot in Austin, Texas on the University of Texas c
  • The Hunted (2003 film): The Hunted is a 2003 film directed by William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio del Toro. Brian Tyler composed the film's score.
  • In the Valley of Elah: In the Valley of Elah is an Academy Award-nominated 2007 film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon.
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones (debut) and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, and Dwight Yoakam.
  • Heaven & Earth (1993 film): Heaven & Earth is a 1993 film written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, which also included Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth
  • Eyes of Laura Mars: Eyes of Laura Mars is a 1978 thriller film starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones and directed by Irvin Kershner. The screenplay, adapted from a spec script titled Eyes, written by John Carpenter, was Carpenter's first major studio film. Producer
  • Black Moon Rising: Black Moon Rising, (1986) is an action film directed by Harley Cokeliss, written by John Carpenter and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton and Robert Vaughn. The focus of the film was the theft of a prototype vehicle called the 'Black Moon'.
  • Back Roads (1981 film): Back Roads is a 1981 comedy starring Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. It is directed by Martin Ritt. It got middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office. It has been reported that Field and Jones disliked one another intensely. Director
  • Fire Birds: Fire Birds (also known as Wings of the Apache) is an action movie starring actors Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young released in 1990 by Touchstone Pictures. Critics panned the film, saying it was a mediocre rip-off of the much more popular
  • The Amazing Howard Hughes: The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) is a TV movie about the entrepreneur Howard Hughes, based on a book by Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
  • The River Rat: The River Rat is a 1984 independent family film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Martha Plimpton (in her debut role). Filmed in Kentucky, it is set on the banks of the Mississippi River. Plimpton portrays a young teenage daughter who meets her father (Jo
  • The Park Is Mine (1986 film): The Park Is Mine, is a 1986 made for TV movie starring Tommy Lee Jones as a Vietnam War Veteran. Mitch (Jones) takes control of Central Park to honor those who died and served in the Vietnam War.
  • Batman Forever: Batman Forever is an Academy Award-nominated 1995 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman. It is the third film in the Batman film franchise and the first one directed by Joel Schumacher, who replaced Tim Burton, the director
  • JFK (film): JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. The film was released on December 20, 1991. The film examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up through the eyes of former New Or
  • The Fugitive (1993 film): The Fugitive is a 1993 feature film, based on the television series of the same name. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard. Jones won an
  • Natural Born Killers: Natural Born Killers is a 1994 satirical film about serial killers and the media directed by Oliver Stone. It stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, and features appearances by Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Sizemore, and Tommy Lee Jo
  • Boss Coffee: Boss is the brand name of canned and plastic bottled coffee and coffee-flavored beverages sold by Suntory in Japan. It was released in 1992 and is one of many brands of Japanese Canned Coffee. The brand's recognizable logo features a mustachioed, pip
  • Love Story (1970 film): Love Story is a 1970 romantic drama film written by Erich Segal coordinated with his 1970 best-selling novel. It was directed by Arthur Hiller. The film, well-known as a tear-jerking tragedy, is considered one of the most romantic of all time by the
  • Blue Sky (film): Blue Sky is a 1994 film which tells the story of an Army officer whose outspokenness and his wife's mental difficulties have made him a pariah to the army. The film's tagline is: "In a world of powerful secrets, love is the most powerful weapon." The
  • Coal Miner's Daughter: Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical film which tells the story of country music performer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and
  • Stormy Monday: Stormy Monday is the 1988 feature film debut of director Mike Figgis. Starring Sean Bean, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting and Melanie Griffith it is an atmospheric noirish thriller. The notable jazz soundtrack is also by Figgis. Being set in Newcastle-upon-Ty
  • Nate and Hayes: Nate and Hayes, also known as Savage Islands (UK title), is a 1983 swashbuckling adventure film set in the South Pacific in the late 19th century. Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe and Jenny Seagrove, Nate an
  • The Betsy: The Betsy is a 1978 film made by the Harold Robbins International Company and released by Allied Artists. It was directed by Daniel Petrie and produced by Robert R. Weston and Emanuel L. Wolf with Jack Grossberg as associate producer. The screenplay
  • The Executioner's Song: The Executioner's Song is a 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore by the state of Utah for murder. Based almost entirely on interviews with the family and friends of both
  • In the Electric Mist: In the Electric Mist is an upcoming drama/fantasy film based on the novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke. It is directed by Bertrand Tavernier, written Jerzy Kromolowski & Mary Olson-Kromolowski, and stars Tommy Lee Jon
  • Dunster House: Dunster House, built in 1930, is one of the first two Harvard University dormitories constructed under President Abbott Lawrence Lowell's House Plan, and one of the seven Houses given to Harvard by Edward Harkness. In the early days, room rents varie
  • The Big Town: The Big Town is a 1987 romantic drama film about a young man who comes to the big city to work as a professional gambler, in the process becoming romantically involved with two women - one of whom is already married. The film was directed by Ben Bolt
  • The Daily Howler: The Daily Howler is a center-left American political blog written by Bob Somerby. It was perhaps the first major political blog, started in 1998. The style is by turns earnest and sarcastic. Somerby criticizes what he considers the media's frequently



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