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Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American actor, contortionist, and mime artist. He is best known for performing in character roles, often portraying non-human creatures, usually via heavy make-up and visual effects. He has most notably collaborated with acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, appearing in the films Mimic (1997), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Crimson Peak (2015), and The Shape of Water (2017). Jones has also had roles in other films, including Hocus Pocus (1993) and its sequel (2022), Tank Girl (1995), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Absentia (2011), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), and The Bye Bye Man (2017). He has appeared in the science fiction series Falling Skies (2013-15) and del Toro's horror series The Strain (2014-16). From 2017 to 2024, he portrayed Saru in the science fiction series Star Trek: Discovery. From 2019 to 2023, he portrayed Baron Afanas in the vampire comedy show What We Do in the Shadows, appearing both with and without creature makeup. Description above from the Wikipedia article Doug Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The twelfth installment in the Universal Monsters Universe and the third chapter of the Frankenstein story. It's 1941, Doctor Josef Mengele has been sended by the Führer to the town of Celles to supervise the achievements of Doctor Von Frankenstein's secret project. Heinrich Von Frankenstein shows Mengele the discoveries of Victor Frankenstein's diary, as well as the remains of the original Frankenstein's monster and his bride. Disappointed with this, Mengele tells colonel Zimmermann that they have a month before the arrival of general Günter to create the "perfect soldier" that they promised to the Führer or else their funding will be revoked. Due to Zimmermann's insistence, Heinrich decides to revive both monsters and perform scientific experiments on them in search for the elements to create a perfect soldier. Alive once again, the monster sees what Heinrich has done to his bride and gives her a mercy kill, knowing that the monster is enraged and won't listen to him, Heinrich decides to take advantage of a young hunchback in love with Zimmermann's daughter, Ygor Müller, who accepts Heinrich's promise of fixing his back. Frankenstein sees this as the opportunity to use Ygor's body as the working ground in wich to create the perfect soldier. The post credits scene shows Yvonne Von Frankenstein giving birth to a baby boy, him being the last of the Frankenstein.
