Jones, Tommy Lee

1946 – He was born on the 15th day of September this year in San Saba, Texas. He graduated at the St. Mark's School of Texas (where he is now on the board of directors) and attended Harvard on a scholarship, where he lived in Mower B-12 as a freshman, across the hall from future Vice President Al Gore.

1968 – He played offensive tackle on Harvard's undefeated varsity football team.

1969 – He graduated cum laude with a degree in English this year.

1970 – He made his debut in movies in Love Story in this year.

1971 – He portrayed Dr. Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, and then he played the role of an escaped convict who was hunted down by the police in Jackson County Jail until 1975.

1978 – He starred opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in The Betsy.

1981 – He played a drifter opposite Sally Field in Back Roads, a comedy that received middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office.

1983 – He won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special in the Academy Awards for the movie “The Executioner's Song.”

1990 – During this year, he made movies such as The Fugitive co-starring Harrison Ford, Batman Forever co-starring Val Kilmer, and Men in Black with Will Smith brought him tens of millions of dollars and made him one of the top actors of Hollywood.

1994 – He won Best Supporting Actor in the Academy Awards for the film “The Fugitive.”

2000 – In this year Democratic National Convention he nominated his college roommate, Al Gore, as the Democratic party's nominee for President of the United States.

2005 – He released his first feature-film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It won him the Best Actor Award.

2000 – In this year’s Democratic National Convention, he nominated his college roommate, Al Gore, as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States. He resides in Terrell Hills, Texas, a community in San Antonio.