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Biography

Born Jonathan Francis Gries in California to writer/director Tom Gries, Jon was exposed to the entertainment industry at an early age. He started his…more

Born

6/17/1957, Glendale, California, United States

Birth Name

Jonathan Francis Gries

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (4)

Role
- Napoleon Dynamite
  Uncle Rico
  - S 1: Ep 6 FFA
    3/4/12
  - S 1: Ep 5 Bed Races
    2/19/12
  - S 1: Ep 4 Pedro vs. Deb
    2/12/12
  - S 1: Ep 3 Ligertown
    1/29/12
  - S 1: Ep 1 Thundercone
    1/15/12
  - + 1 More Credits
- The Pretender
  Broots
  - S 4: Ep 22 The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
    12/10/01
  - S 4: Ep 21 The Pretender 2001
    1/22/01
  - S 4: Ep 20 The Inner Sense (2)
    5/13/00
  - S 4: Ep 19 The Inner Sense (1)
    5/13/00
  - S 4: Ep 18 Corn Man A Coming
    5/6/00
  - + 17 More Credits
- Martin
  Shawn (1992-1994)
  - S 5: Ep 23 California, Here We Come (1)
    5/1/97
  - S 5: Ep 22 One Flew over the Hoochie's Nest
    4/24/97
  - S 5: Ep 18 Auction
    3/20/97
  - S 5: Ep 17 I, Martin, Take Thee Pam?
    3/6/97
  - S 5: Ep 16 Power to the People's Court
    2/20/97
  - + 109 More Credits
- The Pretender
  Broots (Season 4, re-occuring previously)
  - — Dragon House: Part 1
  - — Dragon House: Part 2
Recurring Role (2)

Role
- Lost
  Roger Linus
  - S 6: Ep 7 Dr. Linus
    3/9/10
  - S 5: Ep 17 The Incident (2)
    5/13/09
  - S 5: Ep 16 The Incident (1)
    5/13/09
  - S 5: Ep 13 Some Like It Hoth
    4/15/09
  - S 5: Ep 11 Whatever Happened, Happened
    4/1/09
  - + 2 More Credits
- The Pretender
  Broots
  - S 3: Ep 22 Donoterase (2)
    5/22/99
  - S 3: Ep 21 Donoterase (1)
    5/22/99
  - S 3: Ep 20 Qallupilluit
    5/22/99
  - S 3: Ep 19 End Game
    5/8/99
  - S 3: Ep 18 Wake Up
    5/1/99
  - + 57 More Credits
Guest Star (30)

Role
- Hawaii Five-0
  Liam Miller
  - S 2: Ep 8 Lapa'au
    11/7/11
- Nikita
  Designation Engineer
  - S 1: Ep 10 Dark Matter
    12/2/10
- Psych
  Strabinsky
  - S 5: Ep 9 One, Maybe Two, Ways Out
    9/8/10
- Cold Case
  Bill Shepard (1978)
  - S 7: Ep 19 Bullet (2)
    4/4/10
  - S 7: Ep 18 The Last Drive-In (1)
    3/28/10
- Supernatural
  Martin Creaser
  - S 5: Ep 11 Sam, Interrupted
    1/21/10
- CSI: NY
  Jim Warren
  - S 5: Ep 9 The Box
    11/26/08
- Carnivale
  Texas Ranger
  - S 2: Ep 1 Los Moscos
    1/9/05
- Las Vegas
  Greg Walker
  - S 1: Ep 19 Sons and Lovers
    3/22/04
- 24
  Joseph Wald
  - S 2: Ep 4 Day 2: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
    11/19/02
- ER
  Marty Nesmith
  - S 7: Ep 20 Fear of Commitment
    5/3/01
- Seinfeld
  Rusty
  - S 9: Ep 17 The Bookstore
    4/9/98
  - S 6: Ep 16 The Beard
    2/9/95
- Strange Luck
  Henry Bloom
  - S 1: Ep 3 Last Chance
    9/29/95
- Chicago Hope
  Jack Kimball
  - S 2: Ep 1 Hello Goodbye
    9/18/95
- Beverly Hills 90210
  Dope Dealer
  - S 5: Ep 11 Hate Is Just a Four-Letter Word
    11/16/94
  - S 5: Ep 10 The Dreams of Dylan McKay
    11/9/94
  - S 5: Ep 9 Intervention
    11/2/94
  - S 5: Ep 8 Things That Go Bang in the Night
    10/26/94
- The X-Files
  Salvatore Matola
  - S 2: Ep 4 Sleepless
    10/7/94
- Bakersfield, P.D.
  Ray Coombs
  - S 1: Ep 12 A Bullet for Stiles
    11/30/93
- Quantum Leap
  Flash McGrath
  - S 3: Ep 17 Glitter Rock
    4/10/91
- Tour of Duty
  Maj. Rex Chapman, USAF
  - S 3: Ep 20 The Raid
    4/28/90
- Jake and the Fatman
  Lenny Maddox
  - S 3: Ep 18 By Myself
    2/28/90
- Falcon Crest
  Stone
  - S 9: Ep 15 Finding Lauren
    2/16/90
- Paradise
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 4 Dead Run
    10/7/89
- Quantum Leap
  Roscoe
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Right Hand of God
    4/7/89
- Tattinger's
  Ricky
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Sonny Also Rises
    11/2/88
- Cagney & Lacey
  'Hands' Callahan
  - S 7: Ep 2 The City is Burning
    9/28/87
- The Twilight Zone (1985)
  Nick
  - S 2: Ep 16 Shelter Skelter
    5/21/87
- The Jeffersons
  Frank
  - S 10: Ep 4 I Do, I Don't
    10/16/83
- The Powers of Matthew Star
  Brad
  - S 1: Ep 20 Road Rebels
    3/25/83
- The White Shadow
  Uri Kogenski
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Russians Are Coming
    2/26/80
- 240-Robert
  Brad
  - S 1: Ep 10 Poison Air
    11/5/79
- Mulligan's Stew
  Adams
  - S 1: Ep 2 Melinda Special
    11/1/77
Director (1)

Role
- The Pretender
  Director
  - S 4: Ep 16 School Daze
    4/22/00

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Trivia
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- Jon Gries once dated Bruce Springsteen's little sister.
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- His highest grossing movie has been Men in Black.
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- In 2000, Jon was given the opportunity to direct School Daze, a season four episode of The Pretender, a show which he had a starring role on at the time.
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- Jon: (on Napoleon Dynamite): The fun of this kind of experience, which I think, unfortunately, a lot of people in the film industry miss, is really the adventure of making a movie that is being nurtured almost like a child and having to go through a channel where there are not millions of hands kind of massaging it to the screen.
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- Jon: (his definition of success): It's not about the money. It's not about the prestige or being recognized. It's about doing work that you really think has integrity.
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- Jon Gries: Real Genius knocks the crap out of Weird Science, but that's just my feeling.
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