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8 unusual facts about Tommy Lee Jones


Barn Burning

It starred Tommy Lee Jones as Abner Snopes, Shawn Whittington as Sartoris Snopes, and Faulkner's nephew as De Spain.

Bob Elkins

In 1980, he landed his first role in a major motion picture, playing Bobby Day the DJ in the Academy Award-winning Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones.

Boss Coffee

Tommy Lee Jones has been the most recognizable face of Boss since 2006, and he has appeared in print, display and television ads for Boss across Japan.

Bully Hayes

The adventures of "Bully" were the subject of the 1983 pirate adventure film Nate and Hayes, also known as Savage Islands, which starred Tommy Lee Jones as Hayes.

Jackson County, North Carolina

Several movies have been filmed in the county including the 1993 blockbuster action-adventure The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, the 1972 drama Deliverance, and the 1996 comedy My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner.

Lisa's Rival

The film is principally parodied in the scene where Milhouse is at the end of a dam drainpipe and dives into a waterfall when being held at gunpoint by an FBI agent resembling Tommy Lee Jones, who uses the film's famous line "I don't care".

Queens–Midtown Tunnel

In the 1997 feature film Men in Black, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith star in a scene in which their Ford LTD car rides upside down on the ceiling of the tunnel.

Rodger Boyce

His most recent work was as a sheriff in No Country for Old Men alongside Tommy Lee Jones.


Lonesome Dove

Four other actors (Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, James Garner, and Jon Voight) were offered the role of Woodrow Call but declined for various reasons before the role fell to Tommy Lee Jones.

Steven Keats

Steven Keats (February 6, 1945 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor who appeared in such films as Silent Rage, Death Wish, Gumball Rally, Black Sunday, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Badge of the Assassin and the TV-movie version of the Norman Mailer book The Executioner's Song starring Tommy Lee Jones.


see also

33 Jazz Records

The label was founded by musician/producer Paul Jolly, whose previous work includes playing with '70's progressive rock band Sweet Slag, and leading improvising musicians such as Maggie Nicols, the Loverly Band, the People Band and EAWO. His professional work included tours of Europe and the Far East. He also appeared, playing as a member of the Kraków Jazz Ensemble, in the Mike Figgis film 'Stormy Monday' which featured Sting, Melanie Griffiths & Tommy Lee Jones.

Kevin Brown

Kevin Brown, better known as Agent K, a fictional character played by Tommy Lee Jones in the Men in Black series of films

The River Rat

The film was written and directed by Thomas Rickman, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1980 for his screenplay of Coal Miner's Daughter, also starring Tommy Lee Jones.