Dickie Jones
Age: 87 | From: McKinney, Collin, Texas
Person Details
Birthday: 1927-02-25 17:12:03
Death: 2014-07-07 17:12:03
Aliases: Richard Percy Jones , Dick Jones , Dicky Jones
Gender: Male
Place of birth: McKinney, Collin, Texas
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Movie Involvements: 65
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
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
Most Famous Work
Pinocchio
(1940) Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger
(1949) Jim Douglas
Sands of Iwo Jima
(1950) Scared Marine (uncredited)
Buffalo Bill, Jr.
(1955) Buffalo Bill Jr.
The Outlaw
(1943) Boy (uncredited)
Stella Dallas
(1937) Lee Morrison
Young Mr. Lincoln
(1939) Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
Westward Ho
(1935) Jim Wyatt as a ChildActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Self | |
| 2000 | N/A | |
| 1993 | Self | |
| 1979 | Self | |
| 1965 | Cliff Fletcher | |
| 1964 | Norm | |
| 1962 | Billy Joe | |
| 1961 | Bob Prince | |
| 1958 | Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones) | |
| 1956 | Mike McGeehee | |
| 1955 | Buffalo Bill Jr. | |
| 1954 | N/A | |
| Jackie | ||
| 1953 | Johnny Blair | |
| 1952 | Pinto | |
| Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid (as Dick Jones) | ||
| 1951 | Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones) | |
| N/A | ||
| 1950 | Jim 'Buck' Wheat | |
| Mighty Mite | ||
| N/A | ||
| Scared Marine (uncredited) | ||
| 1949 | Randy Pryor | |
| Jim Douglas | ||
| 1948 | Joe Bailey | |
| 1944 | Tourist (uncredited) | |
| Young Samuel Clemens | ||
| 1943 | Boy (uncredited) | |
| Darwood Gates Alton | ||
| 1942 | Robert Yancey, Jr. | |
| 1941 | Abbott | |
| 1940 | Boy Captain (uncredited) | |
| Henry Kent | ||
| Matt Howard at 12 | ||
| Lee Danfield, Age 12 | ||
| Cobby | ||
| Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| 1939 | Claggett Boy | |
| Richard Jones (uncredited) | ||
| Bobby Landis | ||
| Boy in Tree (uncredited) | ||
| Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited) | ||
| Bill Carter | ||
| Dennis Madden, as a boy | ||
| Killer Parkins | ||
| Johnny | ||
| 1938 | Artie Peters | |
| Jimmy Mitchell | ||
| Magazine Newsboy | ||
| Dick Abbott (as a boy) | ||
| Buddy | ||
| Young Joe | ||
| Jimmie Benton | ||
| Bobby Doyle | ||
| 1937 | Dickie Stevens | |
| Spike (as Our Gang) | ||
| Bill - Mouse's Friend | ||
| Tommy MacDonald | ||
| Lee Morrison | ||
| Dickie Martin | ||
| Teddy Page | ||
| Bobby Skinner (uncredited) | ||
| Junior | ||
| Bobby Mason | ||
| Buddy Taylor | ||
| Bobby Mason | ||
| 1936 | Dickie Williams | |
| Master Jerry Randolph | ||
| Sonny Brown | ||
| Boy on Streetcar | ||
| Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful | ||
| 2nd Newsboy | ||
| Jimmy McLaw | ||
| Wilbur | ||
| 1935 | Dickie Roberts | |
| Boy with Sling Shot at Parade | ||
| Jim Wyatt as a Child | ||
| Dickie Thomas | ||
| Jan Trevor as a Boy | ||
| David Worth as a child | ||
| 1934 | Schoolboy (uncredited) | |
| Dolly | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
