Tommy Lee Jones

After graduating from Harvard, Tommy Lee Jones received a Bachelor of Arts in English. It is difficult to say how his career in this field would have developed if he had not become an actor. On September 15, we celebrate his 68th birthday and remember the brightest roles.

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1. Having started his career as a theater actor in the 70s, Tommy Lee Jones turned into one of the most sought-after and highly paid film actors 20 years later.

2. He became famous for the role of New Orleans banker Clay Shaw in the film "John F. Kennedy: Shots Fired in Dallas" (1991), who was found not guilty.

3. The role of the eccentric terrorist William Stranix in the film "Under Siege" (1992), where he successfully contrasted with Steven Seagal's tiresome equanimity, was no worse. The picture became a champion in the first weekend, collecting $ 15.7 million, which was a record that fall. The villain William Stranix, as expected, died in the final battle of good (Steven Seagal) with evil (Tommy Lee Jones). But the audience remembered no worse than Sigal, who owns all kinds of punishments for scum.

4. Yes, and a charismatic "evil policeman" (more precisely, a bailiff) Samuel Gerard in the movie "The Fugitive" (1993) he was a success. Filled with a sense of justice, Tommy Lee Jones follows Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) throughout the film, only to be convinced closer to the finale: and the doctor is innocent. Smiling discreetly, Tommy Lee Jones goes to catch the real criminals — there are many more.

5. But the best role of Tommy Lee Jones is prison warden Dwight McCluskey from Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers." A psychopath without fear or reproach, he knows that if it were not for him, Dwight McCluskey, chaos would have reigned in the prison entrusted to him long ago.

6. Against this background, the former Gotham City district attorney Two-Faced from "Batman Forever" (1995) and three parts of the comic book "Men in Black" are not the most interesting works of Tommy Lee Jones.

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8. One of the last strong roles of Tommy Lee Jones is in the Coen brothers thriller based on the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, "Old People don't Belong Here" (2007). The local is a typical provincial sheriff from a Hollywood movie. And like a typical sheriff, arresting an assassin, he does not immediately understand who he is dealing with.

9. In the latest film, Tommy Lee Jones acts both as an actor and as a director. Hilary Swank becomes a partner in the film "Local" (2014). It is assumed that the film will be released in the United States in October 2014.