Basic Information About Jon Gries
Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
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Professions | Actor, Film Director, Film Producer, Voice Actor |
Net worth | $2,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1957-06-17 (67 years old) |
Place of birth | Glendale |
Nationality | United States of America |
Gender | Male |
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.8 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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Jon Gries roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Taken 3 | (Mark) Casey |
Men in Black | Van Driver |
Taken | Casey |
Taken 2 | Casey |
Napoleon Dynamite | Uncle Rico |
The Monster Squad | Desperate Man (as Jonathan Gries) |
Get Shorty | Ronnie Wingate |
The Rundown | Harvey |
Real Genius | Lazlo Hollyfeld (as Jonathan Gries) |
Stick It | Brice Graham |
Fright Night Part 2 | Louie (as Jonathan Gries) |
Running Scared | Det. Tony Montoya (as Jonathan Gries) |
The Comebacks | Barber |
The Grifters | Drunk's Friend (as Jonathan Gries) |
The Astronaut Farmer | FBI Agent Killbourne |
TerrorVision | O.D. (as Jonathan Gries) |
The Sasquatch Gang | Chilcutt |
Criminal Minds | Clifford Walsh 1 episode, 2014 |
Sons of Anarchy | Magoo 1 episode, 2010 |
Lost | Roger Linus 6 episodes, 2007-2010 |
Quantum Leap | Flash McGrath / ... 1 episode, 1989-1991 |
The X Files | Salvatore Matola 1 episode, 1994 |
The Bridge | Bob 7 episodes, 2013-2014 |
Supernatural | Martin Creaser 2 episodes, 2010-2012 |
Tour of Duty | Maj. Rex Chapman, USAF 1 episode, 1990 |
ER | Defense Attorney Marty Nesmith 1 episode, 2001 |
The Jeffersons | Frank 1 episode, 1983 |
The White Shadow | Uri Kogenski 1 episode, 1980 |
CSI: NY | Jim Warren 1 episode, 2008 |
Psych | Strabinsky 1 episode, 2010 |
Paradise | Emmett 1 episode, 1989 |
Las Vegas | Greg Walker 1 episode, 2004 |
Chicago Hope | Jack Kimball 1 episode, 1995 |
Beverly Hills, 90210 | Dope Dealer / ... 4 episodes, 1994 |
Nikita | The Engineer 1 episode, 2010 |
24 | Joseph Wald 1 episode, 2002 |
Seinfeld | Homeless Man / ... 2 episodes, 1995-1998 |
Hawaii Five-0 | Liam Miller 1 episode, 2011 |
Cagney & Lacey | Hands Callahan 1 episode, 1987 |
The Pretender | Director |
The Pretender | Broots 82 episodes, 1996-2000 |
CarnivΓ le | Texas Ranger 2 episodes, 2003-2005 |
Dream Corp LLC | Dr Roberts / ... 30 episodes, 2016-2020 |
The Twilight Zone | Nick Gatlin (segment "Shelter Skelter") 1 episode, 1987 |
Martin | Shawn McDermott 54 episodes, 1992-1994 |
L.A. Law | Dr. Harold Benson 1 episode, 1992 |
Jon Gries's Quotes
- On his definition of success: It's not about the money. It's not about the prestige or being recognized. It's about doing work that you really think has integrity.
- On Napoleon Dynamite (2004): The fun of this kind of experience, which I think, unfortunately, a lot of people in the film industry miss, is really the adventure of making a movie that is being nurtured almost like a child and having to go through a channel where there are not millions of hands kind of massaging it to the screen.
- (On Get Shorty) I was probably the 250th person they saw for that. They saw Matthew McConaughey, Steve Buscemi, a lot of people. Getting it was kind of an anomaly. It's very difficult being nobody and getting a part in a movie like that. My personal feeling is that what I did in the audition didn't translate on film, and part of that was Barry Sonnenfeld's insecurity. There was so much dialogue, so he thought everything should be sped up. He kept saying, "Make it faster," and I think it lost something. When we had the cast and crew screening, there wasn't a peep from the audience. Barry was sweating profusely. He thought everyone hated it. I walked out of there thinking it was gonna be a big flop. Of course, seeing it now, I think it worked just fine, and we were all being too hard on it.
Interesting Facts about Jon Gries
- Son of noted writer/director/producer Tom Gries and actress Mary Munday. His paternal step-grandfather was jazz musician Muggsy Spanier (who was married to Jon's grandmother, Ruth).
- Does not drink milk and eats very little red meat.
- In one of his appearances on Seinfeld (1989), he plays a homeless man that refuses to give Kramer's (Michael Richards) Tupperware back. In Napoleon Dynamite (2004), his character is a door-to-door salesman of Tupperware-like products.
- On Lost (2004) he played the father of Michael Emerson, who is actually 3 years older than him.
- Brother of Cary Gries.
- Played the role of a wolf man in 2 films, in The Monster Squad (1987) as Desperate Man (wolf man in human form) and in Fright Night Part 2 (1988) as Louie.
- He is the son of director Tom Gries.