How old was Tommy Lee Jones in Lonesome Dove?

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.

How old was Tommy Lee Jones in Lonesome Dove?

Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series, but the third instalment in the series chronologically.

The story revolves around the relationships between several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. Set in the closing years of the Old West, the novel explores themes of old age, death, unrequited love, and friendship.

The novel was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which won both critical and popular acclaim. McMurtry went on to write a sequel, Streets of Laredo (1993), and two prequels, Dead Man’s Walk (1995) and Comanche Moon (1997), all of which were also adapted as TV series.

The Lonesome Dove movie was cast in 1989. And Today Jones is 75 and has starred in 82 movies in total. It’s been 33 years since Lonesome Dove was released. Therefore Tommy Lee Jonas was then 42 years old in the Lonesome Dove movie. Tommy’s first acting role was as ‘Hank’ in Love Story, released in 1970 when he was 24.

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