Dickie Jones
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: February 25, 1927
Day of Death: July 7, 2014 (87 years old)
Place of Birth: Snyder, Texas, USA
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
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Actor Richard Jones (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Actor Bill Carter
The Man Who Dared
Actor Killer Parkins
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Actor Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
Young Mr. Lincoln
Actor Boy in Tree (uncredited)
On Borrowed Time
Actor Claggett Boy
Destry Rides Again
Actor Dennis Madden, as a boy
Sergeant Madden
Actor Bobby Landis
Sky Patrol
Actor Johnny
Woman Doctor
1938
Actor Jimmy Mitchell
Land of Fighting Men
Actor Dick Abbott (as a boy)
A Man to Remember
Actor Buddy
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Actor Magazine Newsboy
Girls on Probation
Actor Artie Peters
The Frontiersmen
Actor Bobby Doyle
The Kid Comes Back
Actor Young Joe
The Devil's Party
Actor Jimmie Benton
Border Wolves
1937
Actor Lee Morrison
Stella Dallas
Actor Spike (as Our Gang)
The Pigskin Palooka
Actor Tommy MacDonald
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Actor Bobby Mason
Blake of Scotland Yard
Actor Dickie Stevens
Hollywood Round-Up
Actor Dickie Martin
Flying Fists
Actor Bobby Mason
Blake of Scotland Yard
Actor Junior
Ready, Willing and Able
Actor Bill - Mouse's Friend
Love Is on the Air
Actor Teddy Page
Smoke Tree Range
Actor Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
Land Beyond the Law
Actor Buddy Taylor
Black Legion
1936
Actor Sonny Brown
Who's Looney Now
Actor Master Jerry Randolph
Daniel Boone
Actor 2nd Newsboy
Sutter's Gold
Actor Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
36 Hours to Kill
Actor Wilbur
Gasoloons
Actor Dickie Williams
Wild Horse Round-Up
Actor Jimmy McLaw
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Actor Boy on Streetcar
Love Begins at Twenty
