High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Jack Stanley Hodgins IV, Ph.D., is a fictional character in the American television series, Bones. He is portrayed by T. J. Thyne. Jack is introduced to the series primarily as an entomologist/forensic entomologist, but also as a mineralogist/forensic mineralogist, a palynology/forensic palynologist, and a forensic chemist, but conspiracy theories are his hobby. He can estimate time of death from the development of insect larvae in human and animal remains.