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Gordon Jones Died at age: 52

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Gordon Jones

Date of Birth:

Apr 05, 1911

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jun 20, 1963

Biography of

Gordon Jones

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Gordon Wynnivo Jones (April 5, 1911 – June 20, 1963) was an American character actor, a member of John Wayne's informal acting company best known for playing Lou Costello's TV nemesis "Mike the Cop" and appearing as The Green Hornet in the first of two movie serials based on that old-time radio program.

    Iowa-born Jones had been a student athlete and star football guard ("Bull" Jones) at University of California, Los Angeles, and had also played a few seasons of professional football. He started out playing small roles in Wesley Ruggles' and Ernest B. Schoedsack's The Monkey's Paw (1933), his first credited role in Sam Wood's Let 'Em Have It (1935), and Sidney Lanfield's Red Salute (1935). By 1937, he had moved on to a contract at RKO Radio Pictures. In 1940, Jones had the title role in The Green Hornet but did not reprise the role in the sequel.

    Jones held a reserve commission in the army and was called into the service after filming his roles as "The Wreck" in My Sister Eileen (1942) and "Alabama Smith" in Flying Tigers (1942), a John Wayne vehicle that was one of the most popular action films of the war. This picture began Jones' 20-year onscreen association with Wayne, who was also a former football player at the University of Southern California.

    Jones remained associated with the service after the war, encouraging college students to consider the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. After resuming his acting career in the late 1940s, Jones appeared in prominent roles in the John Wayne features Big Jim McLain (1952) and Island in the Sky (1953).

    By the end of the 1940s, Jones had aged into a beefier screen presence and into very physical character roles. He was no longer a leading man but he had developed a comic villain persona which meshed with the work of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Jones' association with the duo began in The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947) with the role of the film's heavy, Jake Frame, and continued through their television series The Abbott and Costello Show. Jones played "Mike the Cop", Costello's hulking, loud-voiced antagonist. The program was produced for only two seasons, but ensured continued recognition for Jones via frequent reruns and a 21st Century DVD release.

    Jones also remained busy in films and on television throughout the 1950s, in pictures that ranged from the sci-fi chiller The Monster That Challenged the World to the Tony Curtis/Janet Leigh sex comedy The Perfect Furlough, and on TV series ranging from The Real McCoys to The Rifleman. Jones also appeared in two very successful Disney movies during the early '60s, The Absent-Minded Professor and Son of Flubber. He played harried school coaches in both pictures. He also starred with Mitzi Green and Virginia Gibson in the short-lived TV sitcom So This Is Hollywood (1955), and had a recurring role as neighbor Butch Barton during the early years of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

    Jones returned to the John Wayne stock company portraying Douglas, the bureaucrat antagonist to Wayne's G.W. McLintock in the Western comedy McLintock! (1963). Jones unexpectedly succumbed to a heart attack on June 12, 1963, five months before the release of that movie.

    Jones has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the West side of the 1600 block of Vine Street.

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Gordon Jones

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Filmography of

Gordon Jones

Found 86 Movies in total

... 2011

McLintock!

Matt Douglas ( Actor )

... 1963

Son of Flubber

Rutland Coach (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1963

Everything's Ducky

Conroy ( Actor )

... 1961

Master of the World

Talkative Townsman ( Actor )

... 1961

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Police Sgt. Joe Cassidy ( Actor )

... 1960

Battle of the Coral Sea

Torpedoman Bates ( Actor )

... 1959

Battle Flame

Sgt. McKelvey ( Actor )

... 1959

The Shaggy Dog

Captain Scanlon, Police Chief ( Actor )

... 1959

The Perfect Furlough

MP "Sylvia" ( Actor )

... 1958

Live Fast, Die Young

Pop Winters ( Actor )

... 1958

The Monster That Challenged the World

Sheriff Josh Peters ( Actor )

... 1957

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

Will Clegg ( Actor )

... 1957

Spring Reunion

Jack Frazer ( Actor )

... 1957

Smoke Signal

Corporal Rogers ( Actor )

... 1955

Treasure of Ruby Hills

Jack Voyle ( Actor )

... 1955

The Outlaw Stallion

Wagner ( Actor )

... 1954

Take the High Ground!

Moose (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1953

Island in the Sky

Walrus ( Actor )

... 1953

Woman They Almost Lynched

Yankee Sergeant ( Actor )

... 1953

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon

Curly Wolf ( Actor )

... 1952

Wagon Team

Marshal Sam Taplin ( Actor )

... 1952

Big Jim McLain

Olaf ( Actor )

... 1952

The Winning Team

George Glasheen ( Actor )

... 1952

Sound Off

Crockett ( Actor )

... 1952

Corky of Gasoline Alley

Elwood Martin ( Actor )

... 1951

Heart of the Rockies

Splinters McGonigle ( Actor )

... 1951

Spoilers of the Plains

Splinters ( Actor )

... 1951

Trail of Robin Hood

Splinters McGonigle ( Actor )

... 1950

North of the Great Divide

Splinters McGonagle ( Actor )

... 1950

Sunset in the West

Splinters ( Actor )

... 1950

Big Timber

Jocko ( Actor )

... 1950

Trigger, Jr.

Splinters ( Actor )

... 1950

The Arizona Cowboy

I.Q. Barton ( Actor )

... 1950

The Palomino

Bill Hennessey ( Actor )

... 1950

Belle of Old Mexico

Tex Barnet ( Actor )

... 1950

Dear Wife

Taxi Cab Driver ( Actor )

... 1949

Tokyo Joe

Idaho ( Actor )

... 1949

Easy Living

Bill 'Holly' Holloran ( Actor )

... 1949

Black Midnight

Roy ( Actor )

... 1949

Mr. Soft Touch

Muggles (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1949

The Untamed Breed

Happy Keegan ( Actor )

... 1948

Black Eagle

Benjy Laughton ( Actor )

... 1948

Sons of Adventure

Andy Baldwin ( Actor )

... 1948

A Foreign Affair

Military Police ( Actor )

... 1948

Whispering City

Reporter ( Actor )

... 1947

... 1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Tubby Wadsworth ( Actor )

... 1947

Youth Runs Wild

Truck Driver (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

Flying Tigers

Alabama Smith ( Actor )

... 1942

Highways by Night

'Footsy' Fogarty ( Actor )

... 1942

My Sister Eileen

'The Wreck' Loomis ( Actor )

... 1942

Among the Living

Bill Oakley ( Actor )

... 1941

You Belong to Me

Robert Andrews ( Actor )

... 1941

The Blonde from Singapore

'Waffles' Billings ( Actor )

... 1941

The Feminine Touch

Rubber-Legs Ryan ( Actor )

... 1941

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

Ranger Radio Man (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Girl from Havana

Tubby Waters ( Actor )

... 1940

Up in the Air

Tex Barton ( Actor )

... 1940

I Take This Oath

Steve Hanagan ( Actor )

... 1940

The Doctor Takes a Wife

O'Brien ( Actor )

... 1940

The Green Hornet

Britt Reid / The Green Hornet ( Actor )

... 1940

Henry Goes Arizona

Tug Evans (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Disputed Passage

Bill Anderson ( Actor )

... 1939

Invitation to Happiness

Dutch Arnold (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Big Town Czar

Chuck Hardy ( Actor )

... 1939

The Long Shot

Jeff Clayton ( Actor )

... 1939

Out West with the Hardys

Ray Holt ( Actor )

... 1938

I Stand Accused

Blackie ( Actor )

... 1938

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Tom Grogan ( Actor )

... 1938

Quick Money

Bill Adams ( Actor )

... 1937

Fight for Your Lady

Mike Scanlon ( Actor )

... 1937

The Big Shot

Chester Scott ( Actor )

... 1937

There Goes My Girl

Dunn ( Actor )

... 1937

China Passage

Joe Dugan ( Actor )

... 1937

Sea Devils

Puggy ( Actor )

... 1937

They Wanted to Marry

Jim Tyler ( Actor )

... 1937

We Who Are About to Die

Slim Tolliver ( Actor )

... 1937

Night Waitress

Martin Rhodes ( Actor )

... 1936

Don't Turn 'em Loose

Joe Graves ( Actor )

... 1936

Walking on Air

Joe ( Actor )

... 1936

Devil's Squadron

Tex ( Actor )

... 1936

Strike Me Pink

Butch Carson ( Actor )

... 1936

Red Salute

Michael (Lefty) Jones ( Actor )

... 1935

Let 'em Have It

Tex ( Actor )

... 1935

Wild Girl

Vigilante (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932