Richard T. Jones
Richard T. Jones is an actor, born 1972.
Richard T. Jones was born in Kobe, Japan in 1972 and has worked continuously since the early nineties, which is a genuinely difficult thing to do and says more about him than any single credit. Since 2018 he has played Wade Grey on The Rookie, plus the spin-off The Rookie: Feds, the longest run of a career made largely of long runs.
What he offers is authority without bluster. He plays police, military and institutional men constantly, and he makes procedure sound like something a person would actually say, which is the whole job in supporting work of this kind. The best demonstration is Cooper in Event Horizon: profane, practical and funny in a film that is otherwise relentlessly grim, he is the reason the crew reads as a crew rather than a queue of victims.
The film credits are a tour of the last thirty years of studio cinema in supporting positions: Ike Turner Jr. in What's Love Got to Do with It, Renaissance Man, Seth Samuel in Kiss the Girls, Slim in The Wood, Sergeant Cole in Phone Booth, a traffic cop in Collateral, Ty in Moonlight Mile, Mike in both Why Did I Get Married? films, Captain Russell Hampton in Godzilla, and Andre Waters in Concussion.
Television is where the volume is. Ally McBeal, Bruce Van Exel on Judging Amy, CSI: Miami, Girlfriends, James Ellison on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Grey's Anatomy, Hawaii Five-0, Narcos, Criminal Minds and Santa Clarita Diet.
Movies (32)
- Godzilla (2014)
- Event Horizon (1997)
- Collateral (2004)
- Super 8 (2011)
- Vantage Point (2008)
- Kiss the Girls (1997)
- Phone Booth (2003)
- CHiPs (2017)
- Twisted (2004)
- Concussion (2015)
- What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
- Hot Pursuit (2015)
- Life of a King (2013)
- Renaissance Man (1994)
- Goodbye Lover (1999)
- The Wood (1999)
- Jury Duty (1995)
- Lockdown (2000)
- Moonlight Mile (2002)
- Auggie Rose (2000)
- The Public (2019)
- Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
- The Hard Hit (2023)
- Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
- The Trigger Effect (1996)
- A Question of Faith (2017)
- Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)
- G (2002)
- Time Bomb (2006)
- Game of Life (2007)
TV (12)
Where to start with Richard T. Jones
For the quickest read on what he does, watch Event Horizon. Cooper is funny, foul-mouthed and completely practical in a film with no interest in being any of those things, and he keeps the crew feeling like people you would miss.
The Wood is the warmest thing on his resume and the one to watch if you only know him as a man in uniform. Phone Booth and Collateral are small parts played with total conviction, which is most of the work in a supporting career. Godzilla and Super 8 put him in the uniformed-authority slot he has occupied for two decades.
On television, The Rookie is the long, comfortable watch, while Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is the underrated one: James Ellison's slow crisis of faith is the most interesting thread in the show.