The youngest of four brothers, Doug Jones was born on May 24, 1960 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in the city's Northeastside. After attending Bishop Chatard High School, he headed off to Ball State University, where he graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications, with a minor in Theatre. He learned mime at school, joining a troupe and doing the whole white-face thing, and has also worked as a contortionist. After a hitch in theater in Indiana, he moved to Los Angeles in 1985, and has not been out of work since - he's acted in over 25 films, many television series (Including the award-winning Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), his episode 'Hush' garnered two Emmy nominations) and over 90 commercials and music videos with the likes of Madonna and Marilyn Manson. Although known mostly for his work under prosthetics, he has also performed as 'himself' in such highly-rated films as Adaptation. (2002) with Nicolas Cage and indie projects such as Phil Donlon's A Series of Small Things (2005). But it is his sensitive and elegant performance as 'Abe Sapien' in Hellboy (2004), which stormed to the top of the U.S. box office in the spring of 2004, that has brought him an even higher profile and much praise from audiences and critics alike. He has been portraying the Kelpien Saru on the show Star Trek: Discovery.
Movie | If It Bleeds | Plastic Surgeon | 2025 |
Movie | Don't Open the Door | The Man | 2025 |
Movie | Operation Taco Gary's | Elder | 2025 |
Movie | Space Command Redemption | Dor Neven | 2024-03-09 |
Movie | Down Below | Lester | 2024-10-01 |
Series | Star Trek: Very Short Treks | Saru | 2023-09-08 |
Movie | Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror | Count Orlock | 2023-11-17 |
Movie | Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters | Self | 2022-08-13 |
Movie | Hocus Pocus 2 | Billy Butcherson | 2022-09-30 |
Movie | Svengoolie Uncrypted | Himself | 2022-10-01 |
Movie | Spooky+ | Himself | 2021-01-01 |
Movie | Battle in Space: The Armada Attacks | The Sycophant | 2021-01-12 |
Movie | The 100 Candles Game | Demon (segment: The Visitant) | 2020-11-13 |
Movie | In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover | Billy Butcherson | 2020-10-30 |
Series | The Ready Room | Self | 2019-01-25 |
Movie | Beneath The Leaves | James Whitley | 2019-02-08 |
Movie | The Circuit | Unknown | 2019-02-26 |
Series | What We Do in the Shadows | Baron Afanas | 2019-03-27 |
Movie | Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America | Self | 2018-04-04 |
Movie | 5th Passenger | Langdon | 2018-05-30 |
Movie | Hell's Kitty | Father Damien | 2018-03-27 |
Series | Eli Roth's History of Horror | Unknown | 2018-10-14 |
Series | Automata | Carl Swangee (voice) | 2018-06-12 |
Movie | Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash | Self | 2018-10-20 |
Series | Star Trek: Short Treks | Saru | 2018-10-03 |
Movie | The Boogeys | Sycophant | 2017-07-16 |
Movie | The Bye Bye Man | The Bye Bye Man | 2017-01-12 |
Series | Carpool Karaoke: The Series | Self | 2017-08-08 |
Movie | My Friend Max | Max Mastin | 2017-02-02 |
Movie | The Danger Element | Doctor Elymas | 2017-08-01 |
Series | DuckTales | Wereduck / Demonic Clown (voice) | 2017-08-12 |
Movie | The Shape of Water | Amphibian Man | 2017-12-01 |
Series | Star Trek: Discovery | Saru | 2017-09-24 |
Movie | The Terror of Hallow's Eve | Scarecrow | 2017-08-28 |
Movie | We've Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew | The Man from the Pool | 2016-08-28 |
Movie | The Midnight Man | Vick | 2016-03-01 |
Movie | No Touching | Kripke | 2016-08-28 |
Movie | The Man in the Silo | Charlie (voice) | 2016-01-09 |
Movie | Crimson Phantoms | Unknown | 2016-02-09 |
Movie | Kiss the Devil in the Dark | Terrance | 2016-10-23 |
Movie | Long Live the King | himself | 2016-10-01 |
Movie | Ouija: Origin of Evil | Marcus | 2016-10-20 |
Movie | Patient Seven | Demon (segment: "The Visitant") | 2016-10-11 |
Movie | Gehenna: Where Death Lives | Creepy Old Man | 2016-10-06 |
Movie | Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story | The Operator | 2015-04-07 |
Movie | The Legacy of Avril Kyte | Dr. Stewart | 2015-05-25 |
Movie | Crimson Peak | Edith's Mother / Lady Sharpe | 2015-10-13 |
Movie | Lights Out | Howie the Janitor | 2015-06-10 |
Movie | The Ultimate Legacy | Hawthorne | 2015-12-04 |
Movie | Love in the Time of Monsters | Dr. Lincoln | 2014-03-08 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Movie | Absentia: A Retrospective | Self | 2014-07-07 |
Movie | Chaisson: Quest for Oriud | Sieck (voice) | 2014-05-18 |
Series | The Strain | The Ancient | 2014-07-13 |
Movie | The Visitant | The Demon | 2014-12-10 |
Series | The Flash | Jake Simmons / Deathbolt | 2014-10-07 |
Series | Z Nation | Scully | 2014-09-12 |
Movie | John Dies at the End | Roger North | 2013-01-25 |
Movie | First Impressions | Unknown | 2013-07-14 |
Movie | Raze | Joseph | 2013-04-21 |
Movie | Dust of War | Jebediah Strumm | 2013-07-18 |
Movie | Cruel Will | Adrian | 2013-12-30 |
Movie | Innocent Blood | Carl Grierr | 2013-11-09 |
Movie | The Watch | Hero Alien | 2012-07-26 |
Movie | Rock Jocks | Smoking Jesus | 2012-09-01 |
Movie | Spirit Hunters | Randolph | 2012-11-02 |
Series | Arrow | Jake Simmons | 2012-10-10 |
Movie | Men in Suits | Self | 2012-11-28 |
Movie | Absentia | Walter Lambert | 2011-03-03 |
Series | Face Off | Guest Judge | 2011-01-26 |
Series | Falling Skies | Cochise | 2011-06-19 |
Series | Dragon Age: Redemption | Saarebas | 2011-10-10 |
Series | Teen Wolf | William Barrow | 2011-06-05 |
Movie | Sudden Death! | Jonathan Wright | 2010-07-25 |
Movie | Legion | Ice Cream Man | 2010-01-21 |
Movie | Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey | Zero / Razer (voice) | 2010-09-17 |
Movie | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | La gueule | 2010-01-20 |
Movie | Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer | Dr. Dallas | 2010-10-01 |
Movie | The Candy Shop | The Candy Shop Owner | 2010-12-07 |
Movie | Carnies | Ratcatcher | 2010-10-12 |
Series | Angel of Death | Dr. Rankin | 2009-03-02 |
Movie | My Name Is Jerry | Jerry Arthur | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | Super Capers | Special Agent Smith #1 | 2009-03-20 |
Movie | Angel of Death | Dr. Rankin | 2009-07-07 |
Movie | The Butterfly Circus | Otto | 2009-08-31 |
Movie | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Abe Sapien | 2008-07-11 |
Movie | Operation Filmmaker | Himself | 2008-02-20 |
Series | Fear Itself | Grady Edlund | 2008-06-05 |
Series | Sons of Anarchy | Officer Crane | 2008-09-03 |
Movie | Quarantine | Thin Infected Man | 2008-10-10 |
Movie | Hellboy: In Service of the Demon | Self | 2008-11-11 |
Movie | Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron | Abe Sapien (voice) | 2007-03-10 |
Movie | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer | 2007-06-13 |
Movie | The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning | Patron | 2007-03-04 |
Movie | Pan and the Fairies | Self | 2007-12-26 |
Series | The Guild | Gerald | 2007-07-27 |
Movie | The Wager | Peter Barrett | 2007-06-14 |
Movie | The Benchwarmers | Number 7 Robot | 2006-04-07 |
Movie | Lady in the Water | Tartutic #4 | 2006-07-20 |
Movie | Pan's Labyrinth | Fauno / Pale Man | 2006-10-10 |
Movie | Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms | Abe Sapien (voice) | 2006-10-28 |
Series | Criminal Minds | Fight Club Captain | 2005-09-22 |
Movie | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Cesare | 2005-10-22 |
Movie | Doom | Dr. Carmack Imp / Sewer Imp | 2005-10-20 |
Series | Sockbaby | Doug Jones | 2004-01-25 |
Movie | Hellboy | Abraham 'Abe' Sapien | 2004-04-02 |
Movie | Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation | Self | 2004-07-27 |
Movie | Stuck on You | Space Alien #2 | 2003-12-10 |
Movie | Men in Black II | Joey | 2002-07-03 |
Movie | The Time Machine | Spy Morlock | 2002-03-04 |
Movie | Adaptation. | Augustus Margary | 2002-12-06 |
Movie | Steven Spielberg's Movie | Donald Columbus | 2001-02-10 |
Movie | Monkeybone | Yeti | 2001-02-23 |
Movie | Stalled | Len | 2000-01-01 |
Movie | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | FBI Agent - Carrot | 2000-06-30 |
Movie | Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman | Dave | 2000-11-21 |
Movie | The Darkling | Shadow Master | 2000-08-15 |
Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Grinder | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | Mystery Men | Pencilhead | 1999-08-06 |
Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies | Slapstick Actor | 1999-10-26 |
Movie | Three Kings | Dead Iraqi Soldier | 1999-09-27 |
Movie | Denial | Ghost | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Bug Buster | Mother Bug | 1998-01-18 |
Series | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Gentleman | 1997-03-10 |
Movie | Galgameth | Big Galgy | 1997-08-05 |
Movie | Warriors of Virtue | Yee | 1997-05-02 |
Series | The Weird Al Show | Contortionist #2 | 1997-09-13 |
Movie | Mimic | Long John | 1997-08-22 |
Series | Kenan & Kel | Head Waiter | 1996-08-17 |
Series | Bone Chillers | Mummy | 1996-09-07 |
Series | Unhappily Ever After | Boomer | 1995-01-11 |
Movie | Tank Girl | Additional Ripper | 1995-03-31 |
Series | The Outer Limits | Alien / Alien Doctor | 1995-03-26 |
Movie | Hocus Pocus | Billy Butcherson | 1993-07-16 |
Movie | Magic Kid | Clown in Office | 1993-10-27 |
Movie | Batman Returns | Thin Clown | 1992-06-19 |
Movie | Carnal Crimes | Lang | 1991-09-04 |
Movie | Night Angel | Ken | 1990-06-02 |
Series | Tales from the Crypt | Contortionist | 1989-06-10 |
Movie | The Newlydeads | Tim | 1988-08-21 |