Dickie Jones

Dickie Jones

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1927-02-25
Deathday: 2014-07-07 (87 years old)

Biography

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

Filmography

all 90

Movies 85

self 5

TV Shows 5

Jan Trevor, as a boy
Savage Fury

Savage Fury (1956)

Movie
Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid
Wagon Team

Wagon Team (1952)

Movie
Scared Marine (uncredited)
Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)

Movie
Tourist (uncredited)
Musical Movieland

Musical Movieland (1944)

Movie
Boy (uncredited)
The Outlaw

The Outlaw (1943)

Movie
Darwood Gates Alton
Mountain Rhythm

Mountain Rhythm (1943)

Movie
Lee Danfield, Age 12
Maryland

Maryland (1940)

Movie
Boy in Tree (uncredited)
On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time (1939)

Movie
Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Movie
6
Dennis Madden, as a boy
Sergeant Madden

Sergeant Madden (1939)

Movie
Dick Abbott - Age 8-12
A Man to Remember

A Man to Remember (1938)

Movie
Bill - Mouse's Friend
Love Is on the Air

Love Is on the Air (1937)

Movie
Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
Land Beyond the Law

Land Beyond the Law (1937)

Movie
Master Jerry Randolph
Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (1936)

Movie
6.75
Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
36 Hours to Kill

36 Hours to Kill (1936)

Movie
Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
O'Shaughnessy's Boy

O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)

Movie
Jim Wyatt - as a Child
Westward Ho

Westward Ho (1935)

Movie
David Worth as a child
Queen of the Jungle

Queen of the Jungle (1935)

Movie
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland (1934)

Movie
8
Ned Underwood
The Gray Ghost

The Gray Ghost

TV
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Information

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1927-02-25

Deathday
2014-07-07 (87 years old)

Birth Name
Richard Percy Jones

Birth Place
Snyder, Texas, USA

Citizenships
United States of America

Also Known As
Richard Percy Jones, Dick Jones, Dicky Jones

Awards
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Disney Legends

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1 TV Show
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