Dickie Jones
Acting
Born 1927-02-25
Died 2014-07-07
Snyder, Texas, USA
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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
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Pinocchio
The Lone Ranger
Buffalo Bill Jr.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Range Rider
Babes in Toyland
The Outlaw
Knute Rockne All American
Young Mr. Lincoln
Destry Rides Again
Brigham Young
Sands of Iwo Jima
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Stella Dallas
Redwood Forest Trail
Attila
Flying Fists
Virginia City
Disney 100: Remember That
Black Legion
The Adventures of Mark Twain
The Howards of Virginia
Fort Worth
Rocky Mountain
On Borrowed Time
The Devil's Bedroom
The Vanishing Virginian
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Requiem for a Gunfighter
Westward Ho
Maryland
Ready, Willing and Able
Moonlight on the Prairie
Sergeant Madden
Sutter's Gold
Girls on Probation
The Bamboo Prison
The Call of the Savage
Adventure in Washington
36 Hours to Kill
The Frontiersmen
Mountain Rhythm
Woman Doctor
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Daniel Boone
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Our Gang Follies of 1936
The Man Who Dared
Gasoloons
The Strawberry Roan
Wagon Team
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
Savage Fury
The Wild Dakotas
A Man to Remember
The Devil's Party
Wild Horse Round-Up
Sky Patrol
Love Is on the Air
Hollywood Round-Up
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