Dickie Jones

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: February 25, 1927 – July 7, 2014
From: Snyder, Texas, USA

Biography

Dickie Jones (February 25, 1927 – July 7, 2014) was 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.

Works

84 films

Pinocchio

19407.1

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

19397.8

Babes in Toyland

19346.3

The Outlaw

19435.4

Knute Rockne All American

19406.2

Young Mr. Lincoln

19397.2

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979

Destry Rides Again

19397.2

Sands of Iwo Jima

19506.4

Brigham Young

19404.6

Stella Dallas

19376.8

Disney 100: Remember That

202310.0

Virginia City

19406.3

The Adventures of Mark Twain

19447.0

Flying Fists

19376.0

On Borrowed Time

19397.6

Redwood Forest Trail

19507.0

Black Legion

19376.6

Fort Worth

19517.1

Attila

19545.4

Woman Doctor

19393.3

The Howards of Virginia

19406.8

Requiem for a Gunfighter

19657.5

Sutter's Gold

19367.0

Rocky Mountain

19505.8

The Devil's Bedroom

19647.5

The Vanishing Virginian

19427.3

Nancy Drew... Reporter

19396.0

Love Is on the Air

19376.3

Moonlight on the Prairie

19356.8

Adventure in Washington

19417.0

36 Hours to Kill

19366.1

The Call of the Savage

19356.0

Hollywood Round-Up

19375.3

Sergeant Madden

19397.5

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

19374.6

A Man to Remember

19386.7

Gasoloons

19367.5

Maryland

19406.5

Blake of Scotland Yard

19374.0

Savage Fury

19567.0

Westward Ho

19355.4

Ready, Willing and Able

19375.4

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

19365.7

Daniel Boone

19364.9

The Bamboo Prison

19546.4

Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

19506.5

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

19356.2

Our Gang Follies of 1936

19356.9

The Strawberry Roan

19486.5

Girls on Probation

19386.2

The Frontiersmen

19385.8

Land Beyond the Law

19378.5

The Cool and the Crazy

19585.8

Blake of Scotland Yard

19373.7

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

19389.0

The Devil's Party

19385.4

Little Men

19345.7

The Man Who Dared

19397.0

Last of the Pony Riders

19536.5

Mountain Rhythm

19438.0

Wild Horse Round-Up

193610.0

Sky Patrol

19395.5

The Hawk

19356.0

The Wild Dakotas

19569.0

Sons of New Mexico

19496.5

Wagon Team

19526.3

Land of Fighting Men

19387.0

This My Son

1954

Queen of the Jungle

19357.0

The Old West

19527.0

Love Begins at Twenty

19366.3

The Kid Comes Back

19386.5

The Pigskin Palooka

19376.6

Smoke Tree Range

19377.0

Musical Movieland

19446.7

Border Wolves

19388.0

It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story

1989

The Night Rider

19628.0

Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece

19932.0

Who's Looney Now

19368.0

The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached

2009

A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'

20008.0

Shadow of the Boomerang

19618.0