Andras Jones

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Andras Jones (b. August 12, 1968 in Santa Cruz, California, USA) is an American actor who has worked in movies and in television. He is best known for his role in the 1988 hit horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master as the central character Rick Johnson. Andras's most recent movie was The Attic Expeditions in 2001.

He has made a guest appearances in TV shows like Alien Nation and Good Morning, Miss Bliss.

Andras is also a critically acclaimed musician and has many releases under his own name and under the names Mr. Jones and The Previous and, simply, The Previous. His songs have appeared in many motion pictures and have been covered by several other artists including Andy Dick, Willie Wisely, Julie Christensen [1], and Shmushkin [2].

Jones is the creator and host of the popular radio show Radio8Ball which broadcasts live on KAOS 89.3 FM in Olympia, WA every Tuesday from 6 to 8pm. The Radio8Ball is a call-in divination show where callers' questions are answered by picking CDs at random, playing them on shuffle function, and interpreting the randomly chosen songs as the answer to the question. This format has been adapted to the stage in the form of the show The Ego and The Oracle [3].

Andras Jones’ father was the noted psychologist, writer and academian Richard Matthew Jones, whose books include The Dream Poet, Fantasy and Feeling in Education, The New Psychology of Dreaming, and Experiment at Evergreen.