Born in Rochester Michigan, Jamison spent several years living abroad, where he attended the Frankfurt International School in Germany before returning to Michigan for his High School years at Rochester Adams High School, where he began acting.
He was accepted with a scholarship to the acting program at Western Michigan University. He transferred to the University of Southern California Los Angeles (UCLA) and finished his BA at California State University; Fullerton. Jones spent his summers performing with a professional acting company outside San Francisco, where he was invited to perform two world premiere plays at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
On his return from Scotland, he moved to San Francisco to attend the world-renowned Advanced Training Program at the American Conservatory Theater. After graduating with an MFA in Theater Arts, Jones was invited into ACT's professional acting company where he worked on such critical successes as "Angels in America", directed by
Mark Wing-Davey, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and "Othello" and returned in 2012 for the West Coast premiere of
Jordan Harrison 's "Maple & Vine" directed by
Mark Rucker. Other Theater credits include the title role in "Macbeth," Pastor Paul in "The Christians" and "The Three Musketeers" at the Tony award-winning Denver Theater Center.
After working with Lucasfilms on
Radioland Murders (1994) and
LucasArts on
Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - the Hidden Empire (1995),
Jamison made his way back to Los Angeles and began his career in film
and Television. Film credits included
The Lodger (2009) with
Alfred Molina;
Born to Ride (2011) with
William Forsythe;
He Was a Quiet Man (2007),
starring opposite
Christian Slater and
William H. Macy;
Dark Blue (2002) with
Kurt Russell;
Hollywood Homicide (2003) with
Harrison Ford; and Actor and
Producer credits for
West of Brooklyn (2008) with
Joe Mantegna.
Additional theater credits include the world premiere of "Doctor
Cerberus" by
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa at the Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory Theater and the West Coast premiere of
Molly Smith Metzler's "Elemeno Pea directed by Marc Masterson; "The Three Musketeers" at the Tony Award-winning Denver Theater Center; "Fool For Love" with iconic film
actor
Geoffrey Lewis; the
critically-acclaimed "Therese Raquin" at the Ensemble Theater; Bent;
"Timon of Athens"; "The Foreigner" with three-time Tony-nominated
Tom McCoy/
Cathy Rigby
Entertainment at the La Mirada Theater, where he also starred in "The
Lion in Winter" with
Mariette Hartley,
"All My Sons", "Dancing at Lughnasa" and "The Rainmaker", "How the
Other Half Loves" at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Television credits include
Burn Notice (2007),
24 (2001),
General Hospital (1963),
Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (2008),
Brothers & Sisters (2006),
Days of Our Lives (1965),
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008),
JAG (1995),
CSI: NY (2004),
NCIS (2003),
Crossing Jordan (2001),
Alias (2001),
That '70s Show (1998),
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
and
Will & Grace (1998).