Andras Jones

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Andras Jones (born August 12, 1968) is an American television and film actor, author, and musician. He has participated in the bands The Previous and Mr. Jones and The Previous, as well as under his own name. [1] [2] Jones is the creator and host of Radio8Ball, a musical divination show in which participants' questions are answered by picking songs at random and interpreting the randomly chosen songs as the answer to the question. [3] [4] In 1989 Jones was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Horror or Mystery Motion Picture for his role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 , but lost to Lukas Haas's performance in Lady in White . [5]

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Jones is the author of Accidental Initiations: In The Kabbalistic Tree Of Olympia and contributed a chapter to The Sync Book - Volume 1, both for Sync Book Press. [3]

His maternal grandfather was electrical engineer Louis Smullin. [6]

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As Andras Jones

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With The Previous

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With the Boon

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