My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.

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.