
Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American character actor, best known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus (1984), Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), Dr. Skip Tyler in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Eddie Barzoon in The Devil's Advocate (1997), and A. W. Merrick in both Deadwood (2004–2006) and Deadwood: The Movie (2019).
Jones was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied acting at the Putney School, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and Lawrence University. He began his acting career in small parts in film and television in the 1970s. In his best-known roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus, Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice, and Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, his dead-pan expression and distinctive face bring a comic flavor to his characters through their reactions to the situations in which they find themselves, more so than the wit in their scripted lines.
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as A. W. Merrick
as Gladstone
as Charles Colebaugh (uncredited)
as Richard Cummings
as A. W. Merrick · 11 episodes
as Uncle Crenshaw Little (voice) · 2 episodes

as Lloyd Bator Jenkins
as Vice President
as Sir Swami (voice) · 2 episodes
as Joe Potter

as Brady
as Uncle Crenshaw
as Reverend Steenwyck
as Roger
as Hart

as Minister Pete
as Eddie Barzoon

as Dr. Raskin (uncredited)
as Gustav
as Gercourt

as Walter Kellogg · 5 episodes
as Professor Finley · 1 episode
as Eliot Draisen
as Inspector Lestrade
as Charles

as Buffalo Bill
as Man in the Magic Mirror

as Sgt. Wilson
as Attendant · 1 episode
as Sgt. Wilson · 1 episode

as Red-Haired Radical Committee Member
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