Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor. He has been cited as one of the greatest contemporary character actors, and has appeared in over 200 film and television roles since his debut in 1986. He is an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics Choice Award winner, among other accolades.
His film roles include J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), tobacco industry executive B.R. in Thank You for Smoking (2005), Mac MacGuff in Juno (2007), music instructor Terence Fletcher in Whiplash (2014), Bill in La La Land (2016), William Frawley in Being the Ricardos (2021), and Commissioner James Gordon in the DC Extended Universe films Justice League (2017), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), and Batgirl (2022). He reprised his role as Jameson in various Marvel media unrelated to the Sam Raimi trilogy, including multiple animated series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe/Sony's Spider-Man Universe films Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Spider-Man: No Way Home (both 2021), and the web series TheDailyBugle.net (2019; 2021).
On television, he is known for playing Dr. Emil Skoda on the NBC series Law & Order, white supremacist prisoner Vernon Schillinger on the HBO series Oz, and Assistant Police Chief Will Pope on TNT's The Closer. From 2017 to 2019, he starred as Howard Silk in the Starz series Counterpart. He has also appeared in a series of commercials for Farmers Insurance and starred in the third season of the IFC comedy series Brockmire. In 2020, he had recurring roles on the miniseries Defending Jacob and The Stand.
As a voice artist, he is known for voicing Cave Johnson in the video game Portal 2 (2011), Tenzin in The Legend of Korra (2012–2014), Stanford “Ford” Pines in Gravity Falls (2015–2016), Kai in Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), Mayor Leodore Lionheart in Zootopia (2016), the titular character in Klaus (2019), Pig Baby in Season 4 of the HBO Max animated series Infinity Train (2021), and Nolan “Omni-Man” Grayson in the Amazon Prime action animated series Invincible (2021). He has been the voice of the Yellow M&M since 1996.
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Primarily2025 Heart of the Beast
2025 The Prince
2025 Reykjavik as George Shultz
2025 Hypergalactic as (voice)
2025 Spaceman
2025 The Accountant² as Ray King
2025 The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery as Narrator
2024 Red One as Nick
2024 Juror #2 as Harold
2024 Saturday Night as Milton Berle
2024 The Union as Tom Brennan
2024 You Can't Run Forever as Wade
2023 The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart as Ben (voice)
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2023 Rally Road Racers as Gnash (voice)
2023 Little Brother as Warren Duffy
2023 One Day as a Lion as Walter Boggs
2022 Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan as Narrator
2022 Prophets of Change as Narrator
2022 Hopper: An American Love Story as Edward Hopper (voice)
2022 Glorious as Ghat (voice)
2022 Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers as Captain Putty (voice)
2022 Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self (archive footage)
2022 Marmaduke as Zeus (voice)
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home as J. Jonah Jameson
2021 National Champions as Coach James Lazor
2021 Being the Ricardos as William Frawley
2021 Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Ivo Shandor
2021 Seal Team as Claggart (voice)
2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage as J. Jonah Jameson (uncredited)
2021 The Tomorrow War as James Forester
2021 Ride the Eagle as Carl
2021 INVINCIBLE as Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man (voice)
2021 Rushing or Dragging as Terrence Fletcher (Archive Audio)
2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Commissioner Gordon
2020 Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens as Orville
2020 Palm Springs as Roy
2019 Klaus as Klaus (voice)
2019 21 Bridges as Captain Matt McKenna
2019 3 Days with Dad as Joey
2019 Spider-Man: Far From Home as J. Jonah Jameson
2019 Fanboy as J.K. / Frank Perry
2018 Drug$ as Narrator
2018 The Front Runner as Bill Dixon
2018 Detroit: Comeback City as Himself - Narrator
2018 A Boy Called Sailboat as Ernest
2018 The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island as Dr. Moore (voice)
2017 Father Figures as Ronald Hunt
2017 I'm Not Here as Steve
2017 Justice League as Commissioner James Gordon
2017 The Bachelors as Bill Palet
2017 The Snowman as Arve Støp
2017 Renegades as Levin
2017 The Black Ghiandola as Ralph Aceto
2017 All Nighter as Mr. Gallo
2017 Punching Henry as Jay Warren
2016 Patriots Day as Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese
2016 La La Land as Bill
2016 The Accountant as Ray King
2016 The Late Bloomer as James Newmans
2016 Rock Dog as Khampa (voice)
2016 The Meddler as Randall Zipper
2016 Zootopia as Mayor Leodore Lionheart (voice)
2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 as Kai (voice)
2015 Worlds Apart as Sebastian
2015 Phineas and Ferb: The O.W.C.A. Files as Napoleon / Additional Voices (voice)
2015 Terminator Genisys as O'Brien
2014 Men, Women & Children as Allison's Dad
2014 Whiplash as Fletcher
2014 Ava & Lala as General Tiger (voice)
2014 The Boxcar Children as Dr. Moore (voice)
2014 The Rewrite as Dr. Hal Lerner
2014 Murder of a Cat as Sheriff Frank Hoyle
2014 Break Point as Jack
2014 Barefoot as Dr. Bertleman
2013 Labor Day as Mr. Jervis
2013 Jobs as Arthur Rock
2013 3 Geezers! as J. Kimball
2013 The Magic Bracelet as The Shaman
2013 The Heeler as Roscoe
2013 Dark Skies as Edwin Pollard
2013 Whiplash as Fletcher
2012 The Words as Mr. Jansen
2012 Contraband as Captain Camp
2011 Ben 10 - Generator Rex: Heroes United as White Knight (voice)
2011 Young Adult as Mavis' Publisher (voice) (uncredited)
2011 Blackstone as Detective Burke
2011 The Good Doctor as Detective Krauss
2011 The Music Never Stopped as Henry Sawyer
2010 True Grit as J. Noble Daggett (voice) (uncredited)
2010 Megamind as Warden (voice)
2010 4192: The Crowning of the Hit King as Narrator (voice)
2010 An Invisible Sign as Mr. Jones
2010 A Beginner's Guide to Endings as Uncle Pal
2010 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore as Gruff K-9 (voice)
2010 Crazy on the Outside as Ed
2009 Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe as Self
2009 The Vicious Kind as Donald Sinclaire
2009 Up in the Air as Bob
2009 Jennifer's Body as Mr. Wroblewski
2009 Extract as Brian
2009 Post Grad as Roy Davies
2009 Aliens in the Attic as Skip (voice)
2009 The Way of War as Sergeant Mitchell
2009 I Love You, Man as Oswald Klaven
2009 Red Sands as Lt. Col. Arson
2009 New in Town as Stu Kopenhafer
2008 Burn After Reading as CIA Superior
2008 Walt Whitman as Narrator (voice)
2007 Juno as Mac MacGuff
2007 Postal as Candidate Welles
2007 Rendition as Lee Mayer
2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as James McLaughlin
2007 Spider-Man 3 as J. Jonah Jameson
2007 The Astronaut Farmer as Jacobson
2006 First Snow as Vacaro
2005 Harsh Times as Agent Richards
2005 Thank You for Smoking as BR
2004 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story as Ralph Earnhardt
2004 Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing as Self
2004 Broadway's Lost Treasures II as Benny Southstreet (segment "Guys & Dolls")
2004 Spider-Man 2 as J. Jonah Jameson
2004 The Ladykillers as Garth Pancake
2004 Hidalgo as Buffalo Bill Cody
2003 Path to War as CIA Briefer
2003 Off the Map as George
2003 Disposal as Older Hunter
2002 Spider-Man as J. Jonah Jameson
2001 The Mexican as Ted Slocum
2001 Starwater
2000 Autumn in New York as Dr. Tom Grandy
2000 The Gift as Sheriff Pearl Johnson
1999 The Cider House Rules as Ray Kendall
1999 For Love of the Game as Frank Perry
1999 Hit and Runway as Ray Tilman
1998 Crossing Fields as Guy
1998 Above Freezing as Hoyd
1998 Celebrity as Souvenir Hawker
1997 Anastasia as Ensemble and Character Vocals (voice)
1997 Face Down as Herb Aames
1997 The Jackal as FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon
1997 Love Walked In as Mr. Shulman
1996 Extreme Measures as Dr. Mingus
1996 The First Wives Club as Federal Marshall
1994 The Scout as Assistant Coach
1994 The Ref as Siskel
1992 Guys and Dolls: Off the Record as Himself / Benny Southstreet
1986 Popeye Doyle as Patrolman in Park
8.60 Unknown 1
8.05 Music 6
7.25 Animation 17
6.93 Science Fiction 18
6.93 Documentary 11
6.93 Western 3
6.89 Fantasy 8
6.86 Adventure 28
6.66 Family 15
6.50 Action 30
6.48 Drama 57
6.27 History 7
6.25 Romance 19
6.16 Comedy 57
6.00 TV Movie 6
5.94 Thriller 26
5.93 Crime 17
5.87 War 3
5.86 Horror 7
5.72 Mystery 7