Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

Rooney in the 1986 John Hughes film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He then went to London in 1969 to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art followed by a three-year stint with the Stratford Theatre in Stratford Ontario. Other key roles for Jones include Stay Tuned where he played Mr.

Rooney in the 1986 John Hughes film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.