Jon Gries
Acting
Biography
An American actor, writer and director. He is known for his role in Napoleon Dynamite as Uncle Rico, and more recently "Lost" as Roger Linus, "Taken" as Casey, and "The Pretender" as Broots. From early roles like Lazlo Hollyfeld in "Real Genius" to the suspicious Greg Hunt in "White Lotus" his career spans across genres, showcasing his talent in both comedic and dramatic roles.
Born: June 17, 1957
Place of Birth: Glendale, California, USA
Known For
Sons of Anarchy
The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, California. They combine gun-running and a garage, and involvement in porn film industry. Clay, the charter president, likes it old school and violent; while Jax, his stepson and the club's VP, has thoughts about changing the way things are done. Their conflict has effects on both the club and their personal relationship, especially when Jax goes on a personal quest to cleanse the SAMCRO name and image.
The X-Files
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Supernatural
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
Seinfeld
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
Fallout
The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
Tour of Duty
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
Durant's Never Closes
The story of Jack Durant, notorious restaurateur and ladies man whose connections to the mafia remain a mystery. Direced by Travis Mills.
Quantum Leap
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Bakersfield P.D.
Bakersfield P.D. is a short-lived American television comedy series that aired on the Fox network in 1993-94. The show was based in the police department of the city of Bakersfield, California. It was shot with naturalistic lighting and without a laugh track. Fox canceled the show after one season, citing low ratings. The cable channel Trio reran the show under its "Brilliant But Cancelled" umbrella.
Strange Luck
Strange Luck is an American television series, starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time. As Chance himself says, "If I go to a restaurant, somebody chokes. If I walk into a bank, it gets robbed." Harper's strange luck began when, as a small child, he was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed everyone else aboard, including both of his parents.
Filmography
as Pres. Hopper / Late Night Host (voice)
as Pres. Hopper / Soldier (voice)
as Denver
as Gunner S. Holbrook
as Biff
as Cult Leader
as Greg Hunt
as Bud
as Tim
as Sam Austin
as Jon Waters
as Greg
as Dr. Roberts
as Hoyt Vandenberg
as Gus
as Dizzy Dean
as Principal Thomas
as Franklin
as Billy
as Mark Casey
as Sheriff Shep
as Carson
as Archie
as Barry Goldfield, Jr.
as Terry
as Hoyt
as Richard Simpkins
as Bob
as Greg Lipstein
as Mark Casey
as Shadow Hawk
as Melvin Glee
as Uncle Rico
as Dick Wallrath
as Tom Sutter
as Early Dunchamp
as Peter
as Liam Miller
as The Engineer
as Sheriff Ernie
as Edgar
as Mr. Tod
as Murry
as Levi Franklin
as Hood 1
as Magoo
as Ricky Fabulous
as Mark Casey
as Colin York
as Barber
as John D. Lee
as Ed Tully
as FBI Agent Killbourne
as Gary
as Strabinsky
as Brice Graham
as Chilcutt
as Martin Creaser
as Ritter
as Donald Buckheim
as Bernard Wheeler
as Roger Linus
as Jim Warren
as Uncle Rico
as Bill Shepard
as Harvey
as Greg Walker
as Texas Ranger
as Pierce
as Arnold
as Elron
as B Cool
as Broots
as Joseph Wald
as Sunny Holiday / Glen Allen Johnson
as Broots
as Lawyer Jay Harrison
as Van Driver
as Bill Summers
as Dr. Holmes
as Broots
as Ronnie Wingate
as Henry Bloom
as Defense Attorney Marty Nesmith
as Jack Kimball
as Ray Coombs
as Salvatore Matola
as Rob Sundheimer
as Deputy Elmo (as Jonathan Gries)
as Shawn McDermott
as Bobby
as Dope Dealer
as Drunk's Friend
as Azzolini
as Max (as Jonathan Gries)
as Alan Swayzie
as Homeless Man
as Flash McGrath
as Louie
as Desperate Man
as Bobby Sweet
as Hotel Desk Clerk
as Det. Tony Montoya
as OD
as (segment "Shelter Skelter")
as Lazlo Hollyfeld
as Dirty Curt
as Brian Brian
as King Vidiot
as Stone
as Doug
as Ron
as Wild Child
as Tom
as William Garretson
as Horace
as Lew Schätze