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Jon Gries More at IMDbPro »

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Son of noted writer/director/producer Tom Gries.

Does not drink milk and eats very little red meat.

In one of his appearances on "Seinfeld" (1990), he plays a homeless man that refuses to give Kramer's (Michael Richards) Tupperware back. In Napoleon Dynamite (2004), his character is a door-to-door salesman of Tupperware-like products.

On "Lost" (2004) he played the father of Michael Emerson, who is actually 3 years older than him.

Brother of Cary Gries.

Played the role of a wolf man in 2 films, in The Monster Squad (1987) as Desperate Man (wolf man in human form) and in Fright Night Part 2 (1988) as Louie.

Personal Quotes

On his definition of success: It's not about the money. It's not about the prestige or being recognized. It's about doing work that you really think has integrity.

On Napoleon Dynamite (2004): The fun of this kind of experience, which I think, unfortunately, a lot of people in the film industry miss, is really the adventure of making a movie that is being nurtured almost like a child and having to go through a channel where there are not millions of hands kind of massaging it to the screen.

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