J. K. Simmons

Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955, Detroit, Michigan) is an American character actor. He is best known for his television roles as Dr. Emil Skoda, a police psychiatrist who has appeared on all three incarnations of Law & Order, and as the sadistic Vernon Schillinger on the prison drama Oz. He also played the obsessively egotistical newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson in both Spider-Man movies, as well as Ralph Earnhardt, the father of famous race-car driver Dale Earnhardt, in 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story.

Less well known is that he provided the voice of the yellow M&M in the product's commercials.

Selected filmography

• The Gift (2000)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• The Ladykillers (2004)
• 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004)