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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.
An idea for an anthology series (likely animated) that takes place in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, showing that superhumans have existed for a long time. Each season would focus on a different era, this one would focus on WWII. Host (like The Watcher in What If...): Nostradamus, who is envisioning the events from the past Ep 1: 1940 - Aarkus is sent to rescue Pr. Erskine, an anti-Nazi German doctor, from a concentration camp. He stays behind using his illusion casting to haunt the prison guards so that he may save everyone Ep. 2: 1943 - A sorcerer supreme of the 1940s is a US Army sniper. He was shipwrecked with a platoon of soldiers. Mephisto possesses members of the platoon to steal a magical artifact from him. Ep 3: 1944 - Destroyer stops The Face from using a poisonous gas on Allied forced in the Pacific Theater Ep 4: 1945 - Peggy Carter led the Howling Commandos on multiple raids to recover Hydra scientific discoveries for the SSR. Their last mission was to recover a stolen piece of Allied tech, which turned out to be the sentient synthoid, The Human Torch. Ep. 5: 1946 - After the seeming death of Captain America, Howling Commando James Montgomery Flasworth creates his own identity, Union Jack, to fight Hydra. He finds his brother has fallen in with them and has been transformed into a vampire.
