After graduating from Bolles High School in Jacksonville, Florida, Ashby took a degree in psychology and business administration at Fort Lewis College in Durango in the state of Colorado, and then moved to New York where he took drama classes in the Neighborhood Playhouse. Early in his career he took part in the soap opera Loving, and an episode of MacGyver, also got a small role in the 1990 movie Mr. & Mrs. Bridge with Paul Newman and again in 1990 he starred in the independent film The queen of hell alongside Karen Black.
道格·琼斯是美国的电影及电视演员，他以扮演科幻电影、奇幻电影或恐怖电影中的各种非人类角色而成名，因此他的真面目往往隐藏在重重的化妆之下。他曾出演过一系列有名的电影及电视，例如《地狱男爵》系列、《潘神的迷宫》，和《神奇四侠2》。
He was a master class in cerebral eloquence and audience command...and although his dominant playing card in the realm of acting was quite serious and stately, nobody cut a more delightfully dry edge in sitcoms than this gentleman, whose calm yet blistering put-downs often eluded his lesser victims.
