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Jon Gries

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Glendale, California, USA, 1957-06-17

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Will Penny	Horace	66
2	1976	Helter Skelter	William Garretson	68
3	1977	The Chicken Chronicles	Tom	32
4	1979	Sunnyside	Wild Child	60
5	1979	More American Graffiti	Ron	51
6	1979	Swap Meet	Doug	20
7	1983	Joysticks	King Vidiot	47
8	1983	September Gun	Brian Brian	53
9	1983	High School U.S.A.	Dirty Curt	54
10	1984	High School U.S.A.	Leo Bandini	42
11	1985	Real Genius	Lazlo Hollyfeld	67
12	1986	TerrorVision	OD	58
13	1986	Running Scared	Det. Tony Montoya	61
14	1987	Number One with a Bullet	Bobby Sweet	46
15	1987	The Monster Squad	Desperate Man	67
16	1988	Fright Night Part 2	Louie	63
17	1989	Kill Me Again	Alan Swayzie	60
18	1989	Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog	Max (as Jonathan Gries)	43
19	1990	Rainbow Drive	Azzolini	46
20	1990	The Grifters	Drunk's Friend	65
21	1991	Fever	Bobby	38
22	1992	Four Eyes and Six-Guns		25
23	1993	Ed and His Dead Mother	Rob Sundheimer	55
24	1995	Get Shorty	Ronnie Wingate	65
25	1996	Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah	Steve	60
26	1997	The Maze	Dr. Holmes	50
27	1997	Casualties	Bill Summers	66
28	1997	Men in Black	Van Driver	72
29	1999	Twin Falls Idaho	Lawyer Jay Harrison	71
30	2001	The Pretender 2001	Broots	71
31	2001	Jackpot	Sunny Holiday / Glen Allen Johnson	66
32	2001	The Pretender: Island of the Haunted	Broots	68
33	2003	The Big Empty	Elron	61
34	2003	Northfork	Arnold	60
35	2003	The Snow Walker	Pierce	70
36	2003	The Rundown	Harvey	65
37	2004	Napoleon Dynamite	Uncle Rico	68
38	2005	Last Best Chance	Bernard Wheeler	40
39	2005	Confessions of an Action Star	Donald Buckheim	41
40	2005	Waterborne	Ritter	56
41	2005	Waterborne	Carlton	56
42	2006	The Sasquatch Gang	Chilcutt	57
43	2006	Stick It	Brice Graham	68
44	2006	Car Babes	Gary	54
45	2007	The Astronaut Farmer	FBI Agent Killbourne	62
46	2007	American Pastime	Ed Tully	65
47	2007	September Dawn	John D. Lee	53
48	2007	Fathom		0
49	2007	The Comebacks	Barber	48
50	2007	Frank	Colin York	44
51	2008	Taken	Mark Casey	74
52	2008	Bar Starz	Ricky Fabulous	15
53	2008	South of Heaven	Hood 1	37
54	2008	Around June	Murry	25
55	2009	Elsewhere	Mr. Tod	58
56	2010	Crazy on the Outside	Edgar	52
57	2010	Good Intentions	Sheriff Ernie	48
58	2011	Natural Selection	Peter	63
59	2011	The Smell of Success	Early Dunchamp	56
60	2011	Redemption: For Robbing the Dead	Tom Sutter	40
61	2012	Deep in the Heart	Dick Wallrath	53
62	2012	Five Time Champion	Melvin Glee	62
63	2012	Unicorn City	Shadow Hawk	55
64	2012	Taken 2	Mark Casey	64
65	2013	Noobz	Greg Lipstein	59
66	2013	A True Story	Richard Simpkins	54
67	2013	Byron's Theme		0
68	2013	Skinwalker Ranch	Hoyt	53
69	2014	Faults	Terry	67
70	2014	Eternity: The Movie	Barry Goldfield, Jr.	22
71	2014	Locker 13	Archie	65
72	2014	The Last Survivors	Carson	61
73	2014	Bad Turn Worse	Sheriff Shep	55
74	2014	Taken 3	Mark Casey	63
75	2015	머니 게임 - 월스트리트	Billy	60
76	2015	Pass the Light	Franklin	64
77	2015	Endgame	Principal Thomas	58
78	2016	Durant's Never Closes	Dizzy Dean	80
79	2016	Falsely Accused	Gus	52
80	2016	Operation Chromite	Hoyt Vandenberg	59
81	2016	Operation Chromite	Gen Hoyt Vandenberg	59
82	2016	You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night	Himself	68
83	2017	The Axe Murders of Villisca	Greg	48
84	2017	All About the Money	Jon Waters	55
85	2018	Glass Jaw	Sam Austin	69
86	2019	3 Days with Dad	Tim	51
87	2020	Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp	Self	68
88	2020	Wish Upon a Unicorn	Bud	69
89	2023	Only the Good Survive	Cult Leader	0
90	2024	Bits		0
91		The Knife Thrower	Lew Schätze	0
92		Carolina Caroline		0
93	2024	Solvent	Gunner S. Holbrook	100

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	The Jeffersons		73
2	1977	Mulligan's Stew		70
3	1979	240-Robert		55
4	1981	Falcon Crest	Stone	55
5	1982	Cagney & Lacey		69
6	1985	The Twilight Zone	(segment "Shelter Skelter")	78
7	1986	L.A. Law	Hotel Desk Clerk	71
8	1987	Tour of Duty		80
9	1987	Jake and the Fatman		60
10	1988	Tattingers		50
11	1989	Quantum Leap	Flash McGrath	80
12	1989	Quantum Leap	Roscoe (uncredited)	80
13	1989	Seinfeld	Homeless Man	83
14	1990	Beverly Hills, 90210		74
15	1992	Martin	Shawn McDermott	76
16	1993	The X-Files	Salvatore Matola	84
17	1993	Bakersfield P.D.	Ray Coombs	80
18	1994	Chicago Hope		72
19	1994	ER	Defense Attorney Marty Nesmith	78
20	1995	Strange Luck	Henry Bloom	80
21	1996	The Pretender	Broots	74
22	2001	24	Joseph Wald	78
23	2003	Carnivàle	Texas Ranger	79
24	2003	Las Vegas		70
25	2003	Cold Case	Bill Shepard	78
26	2004	CSI: NY	Jim Warren	74
27	2004	Lost	Roger Linus	79
28	2005	Supernatural	Martin Creaser	83
29	2006	Psych	Strabinsky	79
30	2008	Sons of Anarchy	Magoo	84
31	2010	Nikita	The Engineer	72
32	2010	Hawaii Five-0	Liam Miller	78
33	2012	Napoleon Dynamite	Uncle Rico	59
34	2013	The Bridge	Bob	66
35	2016	Dream Corp LLC	Dr. Roberts	67
36	2021	The White Lotus	Greg Hunt	76
37	2024	It's Florida, Man.	Denver	63
38	2025	Devil May Cry	Pres. Hopper / Late Night Host (voice)	80
39	2025	Devil May Cry	Pres. Hopper / Soldier (voice)	80