Jones explained that his “excuse” job to move to Los Angeles was to apply for a bank management training position for nine months, but was fired after eight months. His first job after graduating was as a street mime and contortionist at King’s Island, an amusement park in Cincinnati. While going to school at Ball State University in Indiana, in addition to being the team mascot, Charlie Cardinal (with the red bird suit) he was learning mime as part of the mime troupe, “Mime over Matter”.
“All my friends are on there, so I want to join them, right?”. “I’m inspired by that TV, so I should be on it one day”, Jones reminisced. To survive all that, he went on to become the class clown, inspired by the likes of Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Lewis, Danny Kaye…Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore, just to name a few. He was made fun of and picked on by all the other kids over the years. Interviewed by CAIFF founder and President, Derek Zemrak, Jones recalled growing up as a “a very tall, goofy, skinny kid” in a small town in Indiana. He certainly didn’t disappoint his legion of fans, including the many Trekkie’s, as some actors in this position might have taken a different approach, such as cancelling all together, but Jones seemed to care more about his fans than about himself and it definitely showed.
The latest being “Amphibian Man”, the sea creature who falls in love with a mute woman, played by Sally Hawkins in last year’s Best Picture winner, “The Shape of Water”.Īs soon as he arrived in the theater, he was sincerely apologetic to the cheering crowd for being late. Not bad for an guy who has been unrecognizable to most of the public since he is usually behind layers and layers of prosthetic makeup in the majority of his roles, but has become a Hollywood icon for over his thirty-year career by playing some of the most unforgettable characters ever created on screen.
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ORINDA, CA, Aug– After pulling off an all-nighter on the set of the popular TV series “Star Trek – Discovery” in his role as Commander Saru, actor Doug Jones was scheduled to fly the next morning from Toronto to San Francisco to be honored and presented onstage with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the California Independent Film Festival. Doug Jones, recipient of the California Independent Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award presented by CAIFF founder, Derek Zemrak at the Orinda Theater.
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