{"id":26827,"date":"2026-07-10T18:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=tommy-lee-jones"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:39:34","slug":"tommy-lee-jones","status":"publish","type":"movie_engine_person","link":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=tommy-lee-jones","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Lee Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received four\u00a0Academy Award\u00a0nominations, winning\u00a0Best Supporting Actor\u00a0for his performance as\u00a0U.S. Marshal\u00a0Samuel Gerard\u00a0in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.<\/p>\n<p>His other notable starring roles include\u00a0Texas Ranger\u00a0Woodrow F. Call\u00a0in the television miniseries\u00a0Lonesome Dove,\u00a0Agent K\u00a0in the\u00a0Men in Black\u00a0film series, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in\u00a0No Country for Old Men, Hank Deerfield in\u00a0In the Valley of Elah, the villain\u00a0Two-Face\u00a0in\u00a0Batman Forever, Mike Roark in the disaster film\u00a0Volcano, terrorist William &#8220;Bill&#8221; Strannix in\u00a0Under Siege, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp in\u00a0Man of the House, rancher Pete Perkins in\u00a0The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada\u00a0(which he also directed), Colonel\u00a0Chester Phillips\u00a0in\u00a0Captain America: The First Avenger, CIA Director Robert Dewey in\u00a0Jason Bourne, and Warden Dwight McClusky in\u00a0Natural Born Killers. 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