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person_profile-Dickie Jones

Dickie Jones Died at age: 87

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Dickie Jones

Date of Birth:

Feb 25, 1927

Country of birth:

Texas

Died:

Jul 07, 2014

Biography of

Dickie Jones

    American actor who achieved some success as a child and as a young adult, especially in B-Westerns and in television. The son of a Texas newspaper editor, Jones was a prodigious horseman from infancy, billed at the age of four as the World's Youngest Trick Rider and Trick Roper. At the age of six, he was hired to perform riding and lariat tricks in the rodeo owned by western star Hoot Gibson. Gibson convinced young Jones and his parents that there was a place for him in Hollywood, and the boy and his mother went west. Gibson arranged for some small parts for the boy, whose good looks, energy, and pleasant voice quickly landed him more and bigger parts, both in low-budget Westerns and in more substantial productions. In 1940, he had one of his most prominent (although invisible) roles, as the voice of Pinocchio (1940) in Walt Disney's animated film of the same name. Jones attended Hollywood High School and, at 15, took over the role of Henry Aldrich on the hit radio show "The Aldrich Family." He learned carpentry and augmented his income with jobs in that field. He served in the Army in Alaska during the final months of World War II. Gene Autry, who before the war had cast Jones in several Westerns, put him back to work in films and particularly in television, on programs produced by Autry's company. Now billed as Dick Jones, the handsome young man starred as Dick West, sidekick to the Western hero known as The Range Rider (1951), in a TV series that ran for 76 episodes in 1951 (and for decades in syndication). Then Autry gave Jones his own series, Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955), which ran for 40 episodes. Jones continued working in films throughout the 1950s, then retired and entered the business world.

    Date of Death: 7 July 2014, Northridge, Los Angeles, California

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Filmography of

Dickie Jones

Found 70 Movies in total

... 2009

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Cliff Fletcher ( Actor )

... 1965

The Devil's Bedroom

Norm ( Actor )

... 1964

Shadow of the Boomerang

Bob Prince ( Actor )

... 1961

The Cool and the Crazy

Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones) ( Actor )

... 1958

The Wild Dakotas

Mike McGeehee ( Actor )

... 1956

Attila

Actor

... 1954

The Bamboo Prison

Jackie ( Actor )

... 1954

Last of the Pony Riders

Johnny Blair ( Actor )

... 1953

Wagon Team

Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid (as Dick Jones) ( Actor )

... 1952

The Old West

Pinto ( Actor )

... 1952

Fort Worth

Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones) ( Actor )

... 1951

Rocky Mountain

Jim 'Buck' Wheat ( Actor )

... 1950

Redwood Forest Trail

Mighty Mite ( Actor )

... 1950

Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

Richard Reilly (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1950

Sands of Iwo Jima

Scared Marine (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1950

Sons of New Mexico

Randy Pryor ( Actor )

... 1949

The Strawberry Roan

Joe Bailey ( Actor )

... 1948

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Young Samuel Clemens ( Actor )

... 1944

The Outlaw

Boy (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Mountain Rhythm

Darwood Gates Alton ( Actor )

... 1943

The Vanishing Virginian

Robert Yancey, Jr. ( Actor )

... 1942

Adventure in Washington

Abbott ( Actor )

... 1941

Knute Rockne All American

Boy Captain (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Brigham Young

Henry Kent ( Actor )

... 1940

The Howards of Virginia

Matt Howard at 12 ( Actor )

... 1940

Maryland

Lee Danfield, Age 12 ( Actor )

... 1940

Virginia City

Cobby ( Actor )

... 1940

Pinocchio

Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Destry Rides Again

Claggett Boy ( Actor )

... 1939

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Richard Jones (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Sky Patrol

Bobby Landis ( Actor )

... 1939

On Borrowed Time

Boy in Tree (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Young Mr. Lincoln

Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Sergeant Madden

Dennis Madden, as a boy ( Actor )

... 1939

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Killer Parkins ( Actor )

... 1939

Woman Doctor

Johnny ( Actor )

... 1939

The Frontiersmen

Artie Peters ( Actor )

... 1938

Land of Fighting Men

Jimmy Mitchell ( Actor )

... 1938

Girls on Probation

Magazine Newsboy ( Actor )

... 1938

A Man to Remember

Dick Abbott (as a boy) ( Actor )

... 1938

... 1938

The Devil's Party

Young Joe ( Actor )

... 1938

Border Wolves

Jimmie Benton ( Actor )

... 1938

The Kid Comes Back

Bobby Doyle ( Actor )

... 1938

Hollywood Round-Up

Dickie Stevens ( Actor )

... 1937

Love Is on the Air

Bill - Mouse's Friend ( Actor )

... 1937

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

Tommy MacDonald ( Actor )

... 1937

Stella Dallas

Lee Morrison ( Actor )

... 1937

Flying Fists

Dickie Martin ( Actor )

... 1937

Smoke Tree Range

Teddy Page ( Actor )

... 1937

Land Beyond the Law

Bobby Skinner (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Ready, Willing and Able

Junior ( Actor )

... 1937

Black Legion

Buddy Taylor ( Actor )

... 1937

Blake of Scotland Yard

Bobby Mason ( Actor )

... 1937

Blake of Scotland Yard

Bobby Mason ( Actor )

... 1937

Wild Horse Round-Up

Dickie Williams ( Actor )

... 1936

Daniel Boone

Master Jerry Randolph ( Actor )

... 1936

Love Begins at Twenty

Boy on Streetcar ( Actor )

... 1936

36 Hours to Kill

Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful ( Actor )

... 1936

Sutter's Gold

2nd Newsboy ( Actor )

... 1936

... 1936

Moonlight on the Prairie

Dickie Roberts ( Actor )

... 1935

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

Boy with Sling Shot at Parade ( Actor )

... 1935

Westward Ho

Jim Wyatt as a Child ( Actor )

... 1935

The Hawk

Dickie Thomas ( Actor )

... 1935

The Call of the Savage

Jan Trevor as a Boy ( Actor )

... 1935

Queen of the Jungle

David Worth as a child ( Actor )

... 1935

Babes in Toyland

Schoolboy (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Little Men

Dolly ( Actor )

... 1934