Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean) Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean) Davy Jones is a fictional character in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series, portrayed by Bill Nighy. He appears in the second film "" and returns in the third film "". He is the captain of the "Flying Dutchman" (based on the ghost ship of the same name). The computer-generated imagery used to complete Jones was named by "Entertainment Weekly" as the tenth favorite computer generated film character in film history, behind King Kong in 2007. The work on Davy Jones by Industrial Light and Magic earned them the 2006 Academy Award for
Bill Nighy "Meerkat Manor". In 2006 he played the role of Richard Hart in "Notes on a Scandal", for which he was nominated for a London Film Critics' Circle award. Nighy also appeared as General Friedrich Olbricht, one of the principal conspirators, in the 2008 film "Valkyrie". He had played an "SS" officer in the 1985 "". Nighy starred in the film "Wild Target" in 2010. In July 2009, he announced that he would play Rufus Scrimgeour in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1". Nighy had already worked with director David Yates twice, and with the majority of the