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
Known For
Credits
- 2009 · The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached as Himself
- 2000 · A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio' as Himself
- 1993 · Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece as Self
- 1989 · It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story as Self
- 1979 · When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion as Self
- 1965 · Requiem for a Gunfighter as Cliff Fletcher
- 1964 · The Devil's Bedroom as Norm
- 1962 · The Night Rider as Billy Joe
- 1961 · Shadow of the Boomerang as Bob Prince
- 1958 · The Cool and the Crazy as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
- 1956 · The Wild Dakotas as Mike McGeehee
- 1955 · Buffalo Bill Jr. as Buffalo Bill Jr.
- 1954 · Attila as
- 1954 · The Bamboo Prison as Jackie
- 1953 · Last of the Pony Riders as Johnny Blair
- 1952 · The Old West as Pinto
- 1952 · Wagon Team as Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid (as Dick Jones)
- 1951 · Fort Worth as Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)
- 1951 · The Range Rider as
- 1950 · Rocky Mountain as Jim 'Buck' Wheat
- 1950 · Redwood Forest Trail as Mighty Mite
- 1950 · The Gene Autry Show as
- 1950 · Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang as Richard Reilly (uncredited)
- 1950 · Sands of Iwo Jima as Scared Marine (uncredited)
- 1949 · Sons of New Mexico as Randy Pryor
- 1949 · The Lone Ranger as Jim Douglas
- 1948 · The Strawberry Roan as Joe Bailey
- 1944 · Musical Movieland as Tourist (uncredited)
- 1944 · The Adventures of Mark Twain as Young Samuel Clemens
- 1943 · The Outlaw as Boy (uncredited)
- 1943 · Mountain Rhythm as Darwood Gates Alton
- 1942 · The Vanishing Virginian as Robert Yancey, Jr.
- 1941 · Adventure in Washington as Abbott
- 1940 · Knute Rockne All American as Boy Captain (uncredited)
- 1940 · Brigham Young as Henry Kent
- 1940 · The Howards of Virginia as Matt Howard at 12
- 1940 · Maryland as Lee Danfield, Age 12
- 1940 · Virginia City as Cobby
- 1940 · Pinocchio as Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
- 1939 · Destry Rides Again as Claggett Boy
- 1939 · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Richard Jones (uncredited)
- 1939 · Sky Patrol as Bobby Landis
- 1939 · On Borrowed Time as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
- 1939 · Young Mr. Lincoln as Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
- 1939 · The Man Who Dared as Bill Carter
- 1939 · Sergeant Madden as Dennis Madden, as a boy
- 1939 · Nancy Drew... Reporter as Killer Parkins
- 1939 · Woman Doctor as Johnny
- 1938 · The Frontiersmen as Artie Peters
- 1938 · Land of Fighting Men as Jimmy Mitchell
- 1938 · Girls on Probation as Magazine Newsboy
- 1938 · A Man to Remember as Dick Abbott (as a boy)
- 1938 · The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Buddy
- 1938 · The Devil's Party as Young Joe
- 1938 · Border Wolves as Jimmie Benton
- 1938 · The Kid Comes Back as Bobby Doyle
- 1937 · Hollywood Round-Up as Dickie Stevens
- 1937 · The Pigskin Palooka as Spike (as Our Gang)
- 1937 · Love Is on the Air as Bill - Mouse's Friend
- 1937 · Renfrew of the Royal Mounted as Tommy MacDonald
- 1937 · Stella Dallas as Lee Morrison
- 1937 · Flying Fists as Dickie Martin
- 1937 · Smoke Tree Range as Teddy Page
- 1937 · Land Beyond the Law as Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
- 1937 · Ready, Willing and Able as Junior
- 1937 · Black Legion as Buddy Taylor
- 1937 · Blake of Scotland Yard as Bobby Mason
- 1937 · Blake of Scotland Yard as Bobby Mason
- 1936 · Wild Horse Round-Up as Dickie Williams
- 1936 · Daniel Boone as Master Jerry Randolph
- 1936 · Who's Looney Now as Sonny Brown
- 1936 · Love Begins at Twenty as Boy on Streetcar
- 1936 · 36 Hours to Kill as Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
- 1936 · Sutter's Gold as 2nd Newsboy
- 1936 · The Adventures of Frank Merriwell as Jimmy McLaw
- 1936 · Gasoloons as Wilbur
- 1935 · Our Gang Follies of 1936 as Dickie
- 1935 · Moonlight on the Prairie as Dickie Roberts
- 1935 · O'Shaughnessy's Boy as Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
- 1935 · Westward Ho as Jim Wyatt as a Child
- 1935 · The Hawk as Dickie Thomas
- 1935 · The Call of the Savage as Jan Trevor as a Boy
- 1935 · Queen of the Jungle as David Worth as a child
- 1934 · Babes in Toyland as Schoolboy (uncredited)
- 1934 · Little Men as Dolly