Biography
Actor Tad Jones is an "American Born Abroad" at the US Army Hospital, Bad Connstatt, Germany. He is known for Manhattan (2014), The Lone Ranger (2013) and Persecuted (2014). His older twin sisters, younger brother (born on his first birthday) and younger brother and sister twins were also born on Army bases. Following High School in Bethel, Vermont Tad spent three seasons in Antarctica as a member of the Navy's VXE-6 Antarctic Para-Rescue Team. VXE-6 was contracted by the National Science Foundation as the air wing in support of international Antarctic research "Operation Deepfreeze." During this time he became an Antarctic Survival Instructor and the 7th person to skydive the South Pole - January 19, 1977.
After his Antarctic tour he studied acting at Santa Barbara City College and performed in college and Santa Barbara community productions. In 1980 he left Santa Barbara for New York to attend The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His first Actor's Equity show, less than a month after completing his AADA training, was in a St. Louis production of "Tribute" playing opposite Ken Howard, the former president of SAG/AFTRA. Tad's SAG and AFTRA cards soon followed with principal roles in network television commercials and daytime television. He was a member of the off-Broadway Mirror Repertory Company in New York City for three years acting with Geraldine Page, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Moriarty, Tovah Feldshuh, Steven Weber, Jim Rebhorn, Victor Slezak and many others.
In the early 90's Tad co-founded a production company, Aunahil, LLC and produced, wrote and directed over 100 live theatrical and educational events for non-profit organization presented in venues across the country including Constitution Hall for The White House, The Kennedy Center Opera House, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, Orchestra Hall Chicago, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
In 2006 Tad completed an 1,100 mile backpack trek with Miles Spencer from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Damascus, Syria retracing T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) path along the Hejaz as outlined in "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." He has been a board member of "Kayak for a Cause" and kayaked across Long Island Sound annually for five years with several hundred kayakers to raise funds for local charities. Tad has climbed a half dozen Colorado 14er's, skied Colorado back-country bowls and has completed over 40 solo 3 am 7 mile hikes up 12,622' Santa Fe Baldy, NM in all seasons to watch spectacular sunrises. His outdoor activities are inspired by his extensive research on T.E. Lawrence and George Mallory who may have actually been the first to climb Everest in 1924.
In 2008 Tad and his two producing partners were the first American company to be contracted by The Director General of the Supreme Commission for Tourism of Saudi Arabia to produce an eight-day Sea Festival on the southern Red Sea Shore of Saudi Arabia.
Tad returned to acting in 2010 following a move to Santa Fe. One of his sons, screenwriter/actor Ben York Jones, won the 2011 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Like Crazy (2011).
