Jon DeVries

Acting

Jon DeVries

Born 1947-03-26 · New York City, New York, USA

Jon DeVries is an actor.

Acting credits

American Gangster poster
7.6

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

American Gangster

2007

Kill Your Darlings poster
7.0

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Kill Your Darlings

2013

Che: Part One poster
6.8

Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.

Che: Part One

2008

Invasion U.S.A. poster
5.8

A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.

Invasion U.S.A.

1985

Fat Man and Little Boy poster
6.2

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989

Evening poster
5.8

As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.

Evening

2007

Developing poster
7.6

About the relationship between a girl and her single mother, who has breast cancer.

Developing

1995

The Baxter poster
6.0

Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses and parents, Elliot is a perfectly nice guy. And that's his problem.

The Baxter

2005

Me and Veronica poster
3.3

Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.

Me and Veronica

1993

Too Young The Hero poster
5.8

TV movie based upon the true story of Calvin Graham, who, as a 12 year old boy, enlisted in the US Navy during WWII.

Too Young The Hero

1988

Finnegan Begin Again poster
6.5

A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.

Finnegan Begin Again

1985

Sarah, Plain and Tall poster
7.1

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.

Sarah, Plain and Tall

1991

Skylark poster
7.0

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.

Skylark

1993

Grand Isle poster
4.6

A married woman in 1890s Louisiana meets a handsome Creole, reawakening her sexual desires, and is tempted into an affair with the man.

Grand Isle

1991

Uncle Vanya poster
NR

Vanya and his niece Sonya struggle to care for the estate owned by Vanya’s brother-in-law Alexánder, a wealthy professor. When he returns with a beautiful new wife and plans to sell the estate, hidden passions explode and lives come undone.

Uncle Vanya

2019

Regular Singing poster
NR

The fourth and final play in this captivating series, Regular Singing, opened on November 22, 2013 – the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination that shocked the world.

Regular Singing

2020

We Only Know So Much poster
5.1

A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.

We Only Know So Much

2018

The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck poster
5.5

A shopkeeper is condemned by the police and the press for sleeping with a suspected terrorist.

The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck

1984

Separate but Equal poster
6.5

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

Separate but Equal

1991

Sorry poster
6.5

A year after Sweet and Sad, the Apple Family again share a meal in Rhinebeck, NY, as they sort through personal and political feelings of loss and confusion on the morning of the day the country will choose the next president. Like the first two plays in this trilogy, Sweet and Sad and That Hopey Changey Thing, Sorry opens on the day that it is set, November 6, 2012: Election Day.

Sorry

2020

Lianna poster
6.4

Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage to Dick. In order to find intellectual stimulus, Lianna takes a college extension child-psychology course taught by Ruth. When Lianna catches Dick having an affair with a young coed, she finds comfort and eventually true love in the arms of Ruth. However, this comes with a price as everything in her life is turned upside down.

Lianna

1983

That Hopey Changey Thing poster
NR

Set on election day, November 2, 2010. Uncle Benjamin’s dog has died, and his nieces and nephew have gathered for dinner in Rhinebeck, New York, to surprise him with a new one. While the polls close, the Apple Family discusses memory, manners, and politics.

That Hopey Changey Thing

2020

Vengeance Is Mine poster
6.8

Unsuccessfully trying to close old family wounds on a trip back to the Rhode Island home of her miserable childhood, a troubled young woman finds her new friendship with a neighbor has her stuck in another family drama.

Vengeance Is Mine

1984

Sweet and Sad poster
6.5

The Apple Family finds themselves together again for the first time since Election Night, 2010. Marian, reeling from a personal tragedy, now lives with her sister Barbara; sister Jane is back with her boyfriend Tim; their brother Richard has come up from Manhattan; and Uncle Benjamin prepares for his first dramatic performance in years. Over Sunday brunch on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Apples find themselves talking about loss, memory, remembrance, and the meaning of compensation.

Sweet and Sad

2020