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Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American actor best known for his roles as Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), Skip Tyler in The Hunt for Red October (1990) and A.W. Merrick in Deadwood (2004 -- 2006). His career started in Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, advanced to London and Broadway, before leading to a series of character acting roles in film and television, which often capitalized on Jones's deadpan delivery of characters in unusual situations to comic effect. Jones was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Joseph II in Amadeus (1984) and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the ensemble cast of Deadwood.