Dickie Jones
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 25, 1927
- Died
- July 7, 2014 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Disney 100: Remember That
Movie · as Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
Movie · as Self
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
Movie · as Himself
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
Movie · as Self
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
Movie · as Self
Walt Disney's Wet and Wild
Movie · as Pinocchio (voice)
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Movie · as Self
Requiem for a Gunfighter
Movie · as Cliff Fletcher
The Devil's Bedroom
Movie · as Norm
The Night Rider
Movie · as Billy Joe
Shadow of the Boomerang
Movie · as Bob Prince
The Cool and the Crazy
Movie · as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
The Wild Dakotas
Movie · as Mike McGeehee
Savage Fury
Movie · as Jan Trevor, as a boy
Buffalo Bill Jr.
TV · as Buffalo Bill Jr. · 42 eps
Attila
Movie
The Bamboo Prison
Movie · as Jackie
This My Son
Movie · as Steve Caldwell
Last of the Pony Riders
Movie · as Johnny Blair
The Old West
Movie · as Pinto
Wagon Team
Movie · as Dave Weldon
Fort Worth
Movie · as Luther Wicks
The Range Rider
TV · as Dick West · 77 eps
Rocky Mountain
Movie · as Jim 'Buck' Wheat
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
Movie · as Richard Reilly (uncredited)
Sands of Iwo Jima
Movie · as Scared Marine (uncredited)
Redwood Forest Trail
Movie · as Mighty Mite
Sons of New Mexico
Movie · as Randy Pryor
The Lone Ranger
TV · as Jim Douglas · 1 ep
The Strawberry Roan
Movie · as Joe Bailey
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Movie · as Young Samuel Clemens
Musical Movieland
Movie · as Tourist (uncredited)
Mountain Rhythm
Movie · as Darwood Gates Alton
The Outlaw
Movie · as Boy (uncredited)
The Vanishing Virginian
Movie · as Robert Yancey, Jr.
Adventure in Washington
Movie · as Abbott
Pinocchio
Movie · as Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
The Howards of Virginia
Movie · as Matt Howard at 12
Virginia City
Movie · as Cobby
Brigham Young
Movie · as Henry Kent
Knute Rockne All American
Movie · as Boy Captain (uncredited)
Maryland
Movie · as Lee Danfield, Age 12
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie · as Richard Jones (uncredited)
The Man Who Dared
Movie · as Bill Carter
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Movie · as Killer Parkins
Young Mr. Lincoln
Movie · as Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
On Borrowed Time
Movie · as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
Destry Rides Again
Movie · as Claggett Boy
Sergeant Madden
Movie · as Dennis Madden, as a boy
Sky Patrol
Movie · as Bobby Landis
Woman Doctor
Movie · as Johnny
Land of Fighting Men
Movie · as Jimmy Mitchell
A Man to Remember
Movie · as Dick Abbott (as a boy)
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Movie · as Buddy
Girls on Probation
Movie · as Magazine Newsboy
The Frontiersmen
Movie · as Artie Peters
The Kid Comes Back
Movie · as Bobby Doyle
The Devil's Party
Movie · as Young Joe
Border Wolves
Movie · as Jimmie Benton
Stella Dallas
Movie · as Lee Morrison
The Pigskin Palooka
Movie · as Spike
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Movie · as Tommy MacDonald
Blake of Scotland Yard
Movie · as Bobby Mason
Hollywood Round-Up
Movie · as Dickie Stevens
Flying Fists
Movie · as Dickie Martin
Blake of Scotland Yard
Movie · as Bobby Mason
Ready, Willing and Able
Movie · as Junior
Love Is on the Air
Movie · as Bill - Mouse's Friend
Smoke Tree Range
Movie · as Teddy Page
Land Beyond the Law
Movie · as Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
Black Legion
Movie · as Buddy Taylor
Who's Looney Now
Movie · as Sonny Brown
Daniel Boone
Movie · as Master Jerry Randolph
Sutter's Gold
Movie · as 2nd Newsboy
36 Hours to Kill
Movie · as Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
Gasoloons
Movie · as Wilbur
Wild Horse Round-Up
Movie · as Dickie Williams
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Movie · as Jimmy McLaw
Love Begins at Twenty
Movie · as Boy on Streetcar
Queen of the Jungle
Movie · as David Worth as a child
The Hawk
Movie · as Dickie Thomas
The Call of the Savage
Movie · as Jan Trevor as a Boy
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Movie · as Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
Westward Ho
Movie · as Jim Wyatt as a Child
Moonlight on the Prairie
Movie · as Dickie Roberts
Our Gang Follies of 1936
Movie · as Dickie
Little Men
Movie · as Dolly
Babes in Toyland
Movie · as Schoolboy (uncredited)