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- Andrew Jordan Jones is a Canadian comedian, writer, actor, and director. He is the brother of comedian Cathy Jones and filmmaker and screenwriter Mike Jones. Andy Jones has been a professional writer and actor for over thirty years. Andy was born in St. John's, Newfoundland where he co-founded the Resource Centre for the Arts at the L.S.P.U. Hall, co-writing, acting in, and directing many original productions. He is well known in Canada as one of the groundbreaking Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO, in both its theatrical and television incarnations. He has written five critically acclaimed one-man comedy shows: Out of the Bin, Still Alive, King O’ Fun, To The Wall, and An Evening with Uncle Val. He has extensively toured across Canada as well as to Tasmania, Waterford (Ireland), and Glasgow (Scotland). In December 2006, Andy launched his very successful CD Letters From Uncle Val with Rattling Books. The show was held over twice by popular demand and awarded "Best Theatre Production" at The Scope’s Best of St. John’s Awards. In September 2006, a film version of his one-man show King O’ Fun premiered on BRAVO! and also played at The Atlantic Film Festival. The 1986 film The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, in which Andy stars as a polyester-clad milquetoast functionary, was released on DVD in 2008. The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, also co-written and directed by Andy, was the first independent feature film to come out of Newfoundland. With the CODCO collective he wrote 6 full-length theatre pieces: Cod On A Stick, Sickness Death and Beyond The Grave, Das Capital, Pocketcrumbs, Lard Tundering Jesus and The Tale Ends. Other notable works include Albert, a one-act play for one man and a budgie bird, and the children’s plays Jack Meets the Cat and Jack-Five-Oh. He has performed across Europe with The Madhouse Company of London, in England with The Ken Campbell Roadshow, and across Canada in theatre productions including The Time and Place (Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Toronto), Pilk’s Madhouse (Second Stage, Halifax), Love and Anger (Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary), Pope Joan (Nightwood Theatre, Toronto), The Postal Show (Theatre P.E.I. , Charlottetown), and Bloomsday (Anna Livia Productions, Toronto). In television he has co-written and performed in Kids in the Hall, Dooley Gardens, The Cathy Jones Special, and Nasty Habits. In film he played principal roles in Rare Birds, Young Triffie, Brain Candy, Extraordinary Visitor, A Secret Nation, Paint Cans, Life With Billy, Coleslaw Warehouse, and The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood. Andy’s numerous awards include two Gemini awards, five Gemini nominations, two Emmy nominations, two Genie nominations, election to the Newfoundland Arts Council Hall of Honour, The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s Award of Excellence, ‘Best Performance’ at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, and the ACTRA Award of Excellence for Lifetime Achievement.
- Andy Jones est un acteur, scénariste, réalisateur et producteur canadien né le 15 janvier 1948 à Saint-Jean, Terre-Neuve.
- Jones, nascido na Califórnia, trabalhou como supervisor de animação dos efeitos especiais dos blockbuster Godzilla (1998) e Titanic (1998), assim com em Final Fantasy, épico de computação gráfica da Square.
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- Andrew Jordan Jones is a Canadian comedian, writer, actor, and director. He is the brother of comedian Cathy Jones and filmmaker and screenwriter Mike Jones. Andy Jones has been a professional writer and actor for over thirty years. Andy was born in St. John's, Newfoundland where he co-founded the Resource Centre for the Arts at the L.S.P.U. Hall, co-writing, acting in, and directing many original productions.
- Andy Jones est un acteur, scénariste, réalisateur et producteur canadien né le 15 janvier 1948 à Saint-Jean, Terre-Neuve.
- Jones, nascido na Califórnia, trabalhou como supervisor de animação dos efeitos especiais dos blockbuster Godzilla (1998) e Titanic (1998), assim com em Final Fantasy, épico de computação gráfica da Square.
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