Ron Cephas Jones

Ron Cephas Jones

Born: January 8, 1957
Died: August 19, 2023
in Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Ron Cephas Jones (January 8, 1957 – August 19, 2023) was an American actor, best known for his role as William Hill in the drama series This Is Us (2016–2022), which earned him four consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning twice for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2018 and 2020.

Movies for Ron Cephas Jones...

Clyde's
Title: Clyde's
Character: Montrellous
Released: November 23, 2021
Type: Movie
In this stirring new play from the team of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and director Kate Whoriskey, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at reclaiming their lives. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them under her thumb, the staff members are given purpose and permission to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
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Title: Lisey's Story
Character: Professor Roger Dashmiel
Released: June 4, 2021
Type: TV
This terrifying thriller follows widow Lisey Landon as a series of disturbing events revives memories of her marriage to author Scott Landon and the darkness that plagued him.
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Title: Law & Order: Organized Crime
Character: Congressman Leon Kilbride
Released: April 1, 2021
Type: TV
The detectives of the Organized Crime Control Bureau work to dismantle New York City's most vicious and violent illegal enterprises.
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Title: Truth Be Told
Character: Leander 'Shreve' Scoville
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: TV
Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts with Poppy Parnell, who risks everything—including her life—to pursue truth and justice.
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Title: Looking for Alaska
Character: Dr. Hyde
Released: October 19, 2019
Type: TV
Miles enrolls in a new boarding school seeking adventure. There, he befriends a group of quirky students led by the captivating and troubled Alaska. As they pull pranks and explore dark secrets, a night of celebration takes a tragic turn, forcing the group to grapple with loss and the complexities of growing up.
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Dolemite Is My Name
Title: Dolemite Is My Name
Character: Rico
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
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The Holiday Calendar
Title: The Holiday Calendar
Character: Gramps
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A talented photographer stuck in a dead-end job inherits an antique Advent calendar that may be predicting the future -- and pointing her toward love.
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Venom
Title: Venom
Character: Jack
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.
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Dog Days
Title: Dog Days
Character: Walter
Released: August 10, 2018
Type: Movie
A group of people in Los Angeles are brought together thanks to their canine friends.
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Title: Marvel's Luke Cage
Character: Bobby Fish
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: TV
Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
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Title: This Is Us
Character: William Hill
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.
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Title: The Get Down
Character: Winston Kipling
Released: August 12, 2016
Type: TV
In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.
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Title: Mr. Robot
Character: Leslie Romero (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 2015
Type: TV
A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.
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Title: Mr. Robot
Character: Leslie Romero
Released: June 24, 2015
Type: TV
A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.
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Title: Mr. Robot
Character: Leslie Romero (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 2015
Type: TV
A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.
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Glass Chin
Title: Glass Chin
Character: Ray Ellington
Released: April 19, 2014
Type: Movie
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
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Titus
Title: Titus
Character: Titus
Released: September 27, 2013
Type: Movie
TITUS is the story of a virtuoso African-American jazz musician whose damaged soul has brought him to the status of a nobody. Living in London, far from home, he’s wasting away, estranged from his one true love, his vintage alto sax. All hope looks lost until a visitor arrives, Jessica, the daughter he abandoned as a baby…
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Dr. James Covington
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Title: Low Winter Sun
Character: Reverend Lowdown
Released: August 11, 2013
Type: TV
Seemingly the perfect crime, the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit detective activates forces that will forever alter the detective's life, and pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.
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Title: Banshee
Character: Frazier
Released: January 11, 2013
Type: TV
Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.
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Watching TV with the Red Chinese
Title: Watching TV with the Red Chinese
Character: Little
Released: December 2, 2011
Type: Movie
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
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Ashes
Title: Ashes
Character: Floyd
Released: March 5, 2011
Type: Movie
A young Indian man struggles in the inner city of New York to support himself and his mentally ill brother... but their lives are unraveling and he falls in with the wrong crowd.
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A Raisin in the Sun
Title: A Raisin in the Sun
Character: Willy Harris
Released: February 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
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Half Nelson
Title: Half Nelson
Character: Mr. Dickinson
Released: August 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.
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Paid in Full
Title: Paid in Full
Character: Ice
Released: October 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Reggie Banks
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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A Day in Black and White
Title: A Day in Black and White
Released: August 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Two men identified only as Black Man and White Man start the film as a discussion over a speech on race to be given at school the next day and escalates into an argument about the differences in the races - moving along all of the cultural lines and finding mutual fears and concerns.
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Sweet and Lowdown
Title: Sweet and Lowdown
Character: Alvin
Released: December 3, 1999
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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He Got Game
Title: He Got Game
Character: Prison Guard Burwell
Released: May 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
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Naked Acts
Title: Naked Acts
Character: Joel
Released: January 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Twenty-something Cicely has a lot to work through. She's estranged from her mother, a Blaxploitation film star. Videos of her mother's nude scenes disgust Cece now and remind her of when her mother worked long hours and left her in the care of a boyfriend who sexually abused the pre-teen child. Cece's battled her weight for ten years, losing 57 pounds. An old boyfriend, Joel, casts her in a film he's directing for a tyrannical writer-producer who expects Cece to play nude scenes as an artist's model. She refuses to disrobe, not only for the film, but also with Joel in the privacy of their rekindled romance and with women in a sauna. Can she find the calm and will to disclose herself?
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Frank Doyle
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Roland Books
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.