Dickie Jones

Acting

Born Feb 25, 1927

From Snyder, Texas, USA

Died Jul 07, 2014

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.

Dickie Jones

Known For

Pinocchio

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Outlaw

The Howards of Virginia

Stella Dallas

Young Mr. Lincoln

Black Legion

Attila

Babes in Toyland

Sands of Iwo Jima

Filmography — Acting

Pinocchio

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Outlaw

The Howards of Virginia

Stella Dallas

Young Mr. Lincoln

Black Legion

Attila

Babes in Toyland

Sands of Iwo Jima

Destry Rides Again

Sergeant Madden

Knute Rockne All American

Westward Ho

On Borrowed Time

Rocky Mountain

Fort Worth

Virginia City

36 Hours to Kill

Maryland

Daniel Boone

The Frontiersmen

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

Love Is on the Air

Little Men

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

Brigham Young

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

Sutter's Gold

Sky Patrol

The Hawk

Wild Horse Round-Up

Our Gang Follies of 1936

A Man to Remember

The Bamboo Prison

The Devil's Party

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

Disney 100: Remember That

The Call of the Savage

Ready, Willing and Able

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Land of Fighting Men

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Musical Movieland

Redwood Forest Trail

The Old West

The Cool and the Crazy

Wagon Team

Land Beyond the Law

Flying Fists

The Devil's Bedroom

The Wild Dakotas

The Vanishing Virginian

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

Love Begins at Twenty

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Queen of the Jungle

Sons of New Mexico

The Man Who Dared

The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached

Girls on Probation

Blake of Scotland Yard

Hollywood Round-Up

Moonlight on the Prairie

The Strawberry Roan

Smoke Tree Range