This Day, That Year – September 15

This day in history we feature Tommy Lee Jones. Tommy Lee is an American actor and film director born on this day in 1946.

Trivia – Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive. His other notable starring roles in the television miniseries Lonesome Dove, Men in Black film series, No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah, the villain Two-Face in Batman Forever, and in the disaster film Volcano.

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Jones has also portrayed historical figures such as businessman Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, executed murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner’s Song, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor, businessman Clay Shaw, the only person prosecuted in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in JFK, Oliver Vanetta “Doolittle” Lynn, in Coal Miner’s Daughter, and baseball player Ty Cobb in Cobb. In 2005, the first theatrical feature film Jones directed, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Jones’s character speaks both English and Spanish in the film. His performance won him the Best Actor Award at Cannes. His first film as a director had been The Good Old Boys in 1995, a made-for-television movie. Jones’s performance in Lincoln received wide critical acclaim, and he was nominated for an Oscar for the fourth time, for Best Supporting Actor.

Source – Wikipedia

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