Jeffrey Jones is an American actor best known as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus, Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice. Other film credits include The Devil’s Advocate, Ravenous, The Crucible, Ed Wood, Valmont, Hanoi Hilton, Easy Money, The Hunt for Red October, Without a Clue, Stay Tuned, Howard the Duck, Sleepy Hollow, and Stuart Little.

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut as Captain De Foenix in Trelawny of the "Wells" (Vivian Beaumont Theatre); Will/Lord John in The Elephant Man (Booth Theatre); Sherlock Holmes in The Crucifer of Blood (Helen Hayes Theatre); Major Thompson in Boy Meets Girl and Sergeant Wilson in Secret Service (Playhouse Theatre); Off-Broadway, as Brian/Mark in London Suite (Union Square Theatre); French Ambassador/Montjoy in Henry V and Dr. Pinch in The Comedy of Errors (Delacorte Theatre); Clive/Edward in Cloud 9 (Lucille Lortel Theatre); and Roy in Scribes (Marymount Manhattan Theatre).