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
A Lesson in Honesty (1978)
Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965)
The Night Rider (1962)
Shadow of the Boomerang (1961)
The Cool and the Crazy (1958)
The Wild Dakotas (1956)
Savage Fury (1956)
Buffalo Bill Jr. (1955)
Last of the Pony Riders (1953)
Wagon Team (1952)
Fort Worth (1951)
The Range Rider (1951)
Rocky Mountain (1950)
Redwood Forest Trail (1950)
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang (1950)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
Sons of New Mexico (1949)
The Lone Ranger (1949)
The Strawberry Roan (1948)
Musical Movieland (1944)
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
The Outlaw (1943)
Mountain Rhythm (1943)
The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Maryland (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Mountain Ears (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Sky Patrol (1939)
On Borrowed Time (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
The Man Who Dared (1939)
Sergeant Madden (1939)
Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
Woman Doctor (1939)
The Frontiersmen (1938)
Land of Fighting Men (1938)
Girls on Probation (1938)
A Man to Remember (1938)
The Devil's Party (1938)
Border Wolves (1938)
The Kid Comes Back (1938)
Hollywood Round-Up (1937)
Love Is on the Air (1937)
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937)
Stella Dallas (1937)
Flying Fists (1937)
Smoke Tree Range (1937)
Land Beyond the Law (1937)
Blake of Scotland Yard (1937)
Black Legion (1937)
Blake of Scotland Yard (1937)
Wild Horse Round-Up (1936)
Daniel Boone (1936)
Who's Looney Now (1936)
Love Begins at Twenty (1936)
36 Hours to Kill (1936)
Sutter's Gold (1936)
Gasoloons (1936)
Moonlight on the Prairie (1935)
O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)
Westward Ho (1935)
The Hawk (1935)
The Call of the Savage (1935)
Queen of the Jungle (1935)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
The Gray Ghost
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1927-02-25
Deathday2014-07-07 (87 years old)
Birth NameRichard Percy Jones
Birth PlaceSnyder, Texas, USA
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsRichard Percy Jones, Dick Jones, Dicky Jones
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Disney Legends
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