10 Best Characters Doug Jones Has Played With Full MakeUp

10 Best Characters Doug Jones Has Played With Full Make-Up

Considering Doug Jones’ prolific career, it is difficult to pick out his best roles.

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Most actors find a niche – a specific type of performance that they do best. For Doug Jones, that niche is playing heavily made-up, human-like characters. A frequent collaborator of Guillermo del Toro, Jones is not just an actor, but a trained contortionist and mime. These backgrounds absolutely help him play his usual roles.

Jones is not only often made up in his films, but frequently dubbed over. This means that fans probably wouldn’t recognize him out of costume. Despite this, he has appeared in plenty of classic films. Considering his prolific career, it’s difficult to pick out his best characters.

10 The Lead Gentleman In Buffy The Vampire Slayer

While Buffy The Vampire Slayer trafficked in the occult, its eccentric dialogue and chintzy ’90s effects meant it wasn’t all that scary. One exception was the season 4 episode, Hush. One of Buffy’s most acclaimed episodes, the bulk of Hush is performed without dialogue.

The lack of dialogue is down to Hush’s villains, the Gentlemen. A sextet of silent, levitating demons for whom the human voice is fatal, the Gentlemen cast a spell to quiet Sunnydale while they harvest human hearts. Their leader is played by Jones, hidden behind the most frightening monster design in the show.

9 Abe Sapien In Hellboy

Jones first worked with del Toro on 1997’s Mimic. The director and actor team up again – seven years later for Hellboy. Jones played Abe Sapien, the BPRD’s resident fish-man and the titular hero’s best friend. Jones’ performance as Abe was dubbed by David Hyde Pierce in the first Hellboy. For the sequel, Jones played the character entirely.

After playing a supporting role in Hellboy, Hellboy II gave Abe his own subplot as he fell in love with Elf Princess Nuala (Anna Walton). Jones got to show off his singing talents in a duet performance of I Can’t Smile Without You alongside Ron Perlman/Hellboy.

8 The Faun In Pan’s Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro’s finest film is Pan’s Labyrinth. Jones plays Pan’s Labyrinth’s most prominent magical character, the Faun. The Faun guides Ofelia on her quest to return to the underworld. The literal translation of the original Spanish title is Labyrinth Of The Faun. To play the Faun, Jones had latex applied over his body. The real challenge was the character’s curved, hoofed lower legs.

Jones wore lifts and had artificial legs bent behind his real ones, which were draped in green-screen fabric so they could be removed in post-production. As Jones did not speak Spanish, he learned and recited his lines phonetically while performing. Jones was dubbed by Pablo Adán for Pan’s Labyrinth’s final cut. Jones’ movements and Adán’s heavy baritone make an exceptionally memorable character.

7 The Pale Man In Pan’s Labyrinth

The Faun isn’t the only character Jones plays in Pan’s Labyrinth. He also performs as the Pale Man, an eyeless monster with a taste for human flesh. While the Faun is Ofelia’s guide and a trickster mentor at worst, the Pale Man is a an embodiment of the world’s evil. His appearance is meant to invoke Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

His lair evokes the complicit Catholic church. Murals in the lair depict him slaughtering children. Like a dragon sitting atop a mountain of gold, he keeps a feast for himself and attacks anyone who dares eat a morsel, yet never touches the food himself.

6 The Silver Surfer In Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

In between del Toro projects, Jones dipped into the Marvel Universe in 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer. As originally drawn by Jack Kirby, the Surfer was a sleek, almost featureless, but unmistakably humanoid figure. Jones wore a suit to capture this appearance.

The Surfer’s appearance (particularly his alien, light-blending sleekness), was augmented with CGI supplied by WETA. Despite Jones’ physical performance, the Surfer was voiced by Laurence Fishburne. This was the end of Jones being dubbed in English language productions. From this point on, Jones had a clause in his contract ensuring he would not be dubbed over. Audiences would experience his whole performance in the final cut.

5 The Angel Of Death In Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Like Pan’s Labyrinth, Jones played more than one role in del Toro’s following film Hellboy II. One role was a major supporting role, the other a one-scene wonder. The latter was the Angel Of Death, who Liz visits to save Hellboy’s life. Even when the Angel informs Liz that her beloved is still destined to destroy the world, she still makes her wish, and the Angel grants it.

Similar to the Pale Man, the Angel’s face is eyeless, but he makes up for this with eight eyes displayed across his wings. Jones proved his voice work can be as varied as his physical acting. He gave the Angel a raspy, high-pitched befitting its androgynous appearance.

4 The Ghosts Of Allerdale Hall In Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak may not be a ghost story, but it has plenty of ghosts – most played by Jones. In the opening scene, he is the mother of heroine Edith Cushing. Edith comes to visit her daughter as an apparition, warning her to “Beware of Crimson Peak.” Miss Cushing is still draped in her black funeral dress and her face has been reduced to a mere skull.

Once Edith arrives at Allerdale Hall, Jones plays three more ghosts, red-tinted and all disfigured in some way. These spirits turn out to be the slain wives of Edith’s new husband Thomas Sharpe. Similar to the Angel Of Death, Jones’ lanky frame comes in handy for playing androgynous monsters.

3 The Ghoul Marcus In Ouija: Origin Of Evil

One of the quietest surprises in recent years was Ouija: Origin Of Evil. Origin Of Evil was a prequel to the panned Ouija and expected to follow in its predecessor’s foot-steps. However, Mike Flanagan directed it, and he produced one of the greatest quality turnarounds. The first Ouija has a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes. Origin Of Evil has an 82%.

Jones plays the Ghoul Marcus, a former inhabitant of Zander family’s home who possesses youngest daughter Doris. Origin Of Evil starts to go off the rails once the source of the haunting becomes clearer. However, Marcus boasts a truly scary design bolstered by Jones’ imposing height and skinny frame.

2 The Asset In The Shape Of Water

Del Toro’s Hellboy films may have been denied a third instalment, but Jones got the next best thing in The Shape Of Water. Jones plays a merman known only as “The Asset.” Taken from his home in South America by the US Military, heroine Eliza rescues the Asset and forms a relationship with him.

The make-up for the Asset is less artificial and “comic book-y” than Abe’s was. Even more importantly, the character cannot speak English. This means Jones has to convey emotion and meaning purely physically, and he does so splendidly.

1 Saru In Star Trek: Discovery

Every Star Trek series has had an alien in the main cast. The sixth live-action series, Star Trek: Discovery, is no different. However, practical make-up effects have come a long way since Leonard Nimoy portrayed Spock in pointed, elfen ears and pronounced eye brows. Jones plays Saru, a member of the pre-warp species the Kelpiens. Saru was recruited into Starfleet after an accidental first contact. The Kelpiens are cattle on their home planet. Both Saru and Jones’ role as the Faun have hooves for feet.

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