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Jon Gries

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Birth name: Jonathan Francis "Jon" Gries
Birth date: 1957/06/17 (66 years old)
Birth place : Glendale Californie
Height: 1.80 m

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Biography for Jon Gries

Jon Gries was born on June 17, 1957 in Glenndale, California.

He knows very young that he wants to actor and begins in a film by his father Will Penny Le Solitaire, alongside Charlton Heston among others.

He then appeared in many series from Martin to Beverly Hills, via Chicago Hope, Code Quantum, X-Files, Seinfeld ...

He is also a musician and composer, he often plays in Los Angeles with his Carnival Dogs group.

He also played in the theater, such as in the South Coast Repertory Theater and the Mark type forum.

Currently he still lives in Los Angeles

Jon Gries is an American actor, born June 17, 1957 in Glendale, California. He is best known for having played in popular films and television series in the 1980s and 1990s, notably in The Pretter, the family for rent and Napoleon Dynamite. Gries has also played in many other movies and television series, including Lost, Taken and the seventh son. He also appeared in television shows like The Tonight Show and Late Night With Conan O'Brien.

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Filmography

Title	Role
Thicker (2007) (pre-production) (attached)	Luther Reye
The Comebacks (2007) (post-production)	Barber
Elsewhere (2007) (post-production)	Mr. Tod
Around June (2007) (post-production)	Murry
American Pastime (2007) (completed)	Ed Tully
September Dawn (2006) (completed)	John D. Lee
Bar Starz (2006) (completed)	Ricky Fabulous
Lost	Roger Linus (1 episode, 2007)
Bicentennial Curious (2007)	Mick Jones
Frank (2007)	Colin York
Car Babes (2006)	Gary
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)	FBI Agent Killbourne
Stick It (2006)	Brice Graham
The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang (2006)	Officer Ed Chillcut
South of Heaven (2006)	Hood 1
Last Best Chance (2005) (V)	Bernard Wheeler
Waterborne (2005)	Ritter
Sledge: The Untold Story (2005)	Donald Bruckheim
CarnivÃ le	Texas Ranger (2 episodes, 2003-2005)
Las Vegas	Greg Walker (1 episode, 2004)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)	Uncle Rico
The Rundown (2003)	Harvey
The Snow Walker (2003)	Pierce
The Big Empty (2003)	Elron
Northfork (2003)	Arnold
24	Joseph Wald (1 episode, 2002)
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted (2001) (TV)	Broots
Jackpot (2001)	Sunny Holiday/Glen Allen Johnson
ER	Defense Attorney Marty Nesmith (1 episode, 2001)
The Pretender 2001 (2001) (TV)	Broots
The Pretender	Broots (67 episodes, 1996-2000)
The Beat Nicks (2000)
Twin Falls Idaho (1999)	Lawyer Jay Harrison
Seinfeld	Rusty (2 episodes, 1995-1998)
Men in Black (1997)	Nick the Van Driver
Casualties (1997)	Bill Summers
Mitzi & Joe (1997)	Joe
The Maze (1997)	Dr. Holmes
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah (1996) (TV)	Steve
Get Shorty (1995)	Ronnie Wingate
Strange Luck	Henry Bloom (1 episode, 1995)
Chicago Hope	Jack Kimball (1 episode, 1995)
Beverly Hills, 90210	Dope Dealer (4 episodes, 1994)
The X Files	Salvatore Matola (1 episode, 1994)
Bakersfield P.D.	Ray Coombs (1 episode, 1993)
Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)	Rob Sundheimer
Martin (1992) TV Series	Shawn (unknown episodes, 1992-1994)
Four Eyes and Six-Guns (1992) (TV)
Fever (1991) (TV)	Bobby
Quantum Leap	Flash McGrath / ... (2 episodes, 1989-1991)
The Grifters (1990) (as Jonathan Gries)	Drunk's Friend
Rainbow Drive (1990) (TV)	Azzolini
Tour of Duty	MAJ Rex Chapman, USAF (1 episode, 1990)
Jake and the Fatman	Lenny Maddox (1 episode, 1990)
Falcon Crest	Stone (1 episode, 1990)
Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog (1990) (as Jonathan Gries)	Max
Paradise (1 episode, 1989)
Kill Me Again (1989) (as Jonathan Gries)	Alan Swayzie
Fright Night Part 2 (1988) (as Jonathan Gries)	Louie
Cagney & Lacey	'Hands' Callahan (1 episode, 1987)
The Monster Squad (1987) (as Jonathan Gries)	Desperate Man
The Twilight Zone	Nick Gatlin (1 episode, 1987)
Number One with a Bullet (1987) (as Jonathan Gries)	Bobby Sweet
Running Scared (1986) (as Jonathan Gries)	Det. Tony Montoya
TerrorVision (1986) (as Jonathan Gries)	O.D.
Real Genius (1985) (as Jonathan Gries)	Lazlo Hollyfeld
The Jeffersons	Frank (1 episode, 1983)
High School U.S.A. (1983) (TV) (as Jonathan Gries)	Dirty Curt
September Gun (1983) (TV) (as Jonathan Gries)	Brian Brian
Joysticks (1983)	King Vidiot
The Powers of Matthew Star	Brad (1 episode, 1982)
The White Shadow (1 episode, 1980)
240-Robert	Brad (1 episode, 1979)
Swap Meet (1979)	Doug
More American Graffiti (1979) (as Jonathan Gries)	Ron
Sunnyside (1979)	Wild Child
The Chicken Chronicles (1977)	Tom
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977) (TV)
Helter Skelter (1976) (TV)	William Garretson
Born of Water (1976)	Friend

Trivia

Does not drink milk and eats very little red meat.

In one of his appearances on "Seinfeld" (1990), 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.

Family

Son of noted writer/director/producer Tom Gries

Author of the card

Creation date: 01/07/2003 by abdest

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