Biography

Gary Jones is an award-winning director, screenwriter, producer and visual effects supervisor with over fifty motion pictures and thirty television episodes to his credit. Recently, Jones wrote, produced and directed "Escape from Death Block 13", a retro action adventure inspired by the 70's action films from his youth. The film stars Robert Bronzi, Nicholas Turturro, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Chris Hahn. The film was released in October 2021.

In 1995, Jones made his directorial debut with the Sy Fy cult classic "Mosquito" starring Gunnar Hansen, the original "Leatherface" from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and Ron Asheton, legendary guitarist from the punk rock band "The Stooges."

In 2009, Jones was chosen by Sam Raimi and Sony Pictures to direct "Boogeyman 3" the third installment of their popular series. The supernatural horror film stars Erin Cahill, Jayne Wisener and Kate Maberly. After finishing post production on "Boogeyman 3" Jones switched genre's and directed "Ballistica" the fast paced action-thriller starring Robert Davi, Martin Kove and Paul Logan. Jones also supervised the visual effects for the film and created the films title sequence.

Working in television, Jones directed episodes of "Xena: Warrior Princess" starring Lucy Lawless, "Hurcules: The Legendary Journeys" starring Kevin Sorbo, "Honey,I Shrunk The Kids" starring Peter Scolari and "Sheena" starring Gena Lee Nolin. Jones returned to the creature feature genre in 2013 with the Sy Fy network premiere of "Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan". Jones co-wrote, produced and directed the film as well as supervising the creation of the over four hundred visual effects shots needed to bring Paul Bunyan to life. For his work on "Axe Giant", Jones was inducted into The International Indie Filmmakers Hall of Fame and received the award for outstanding directing of 2014.

Other films Jones has directed for SY FY include, "Ghouls" starring Kristen Renton, William Atherton, James DeBello, "Spiders" starring Lana Parrilla, Mark Phelan, "Cocodile 2 Death Swamp" starring Marting Kove, Heidi Lenhart, James Parks, "Lightning Strikes" starring Kevin Sorbo, Annabel Wright, David Schofield, "Xenophobia" starring Ron Silver, C. Thomas Howell, Giancarlo Esposito and "Planet Raptor" starring Steven Bauer, Vanessa Angel, Ted Raimi.

As a producer, Jones's credits include the 2019 western adventure "Warpath" starring Tom Mathews and Sasha Higgins. Jones also directed second unit on film and created the visual effects. His other producing credits include, the action film "Death Kiss" starring Robert Bronzi, Daniel Baldwin, Richard Tyson, a sci fi thriller "Moontrap: Target Earth" the supernatural horror film "The Death Matter" and the grind-house horror favorite "Robert Kurtzmans The Rage".