Dickie Jones
1927-02-25 ( 98 years old ) in Snyder, Texas, USA

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.

Movies

Lynch/Oz 2023-05-15
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached 2009-03-10
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio' 2000-12-22
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece 1993-04-07
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story 1989-10-14
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion 1979-06-05
Requiem for a Gunfighter 1965-06-30
The Devil's Bedroom 1964-09-01
The Night Rider 1962-01-01
Shadow of the Boomerang 1961-08-07
The Cool and the Crazy 1958-03-01
The Wild Dakotas 1956-02-28
Attila 1954-12-27
The Bamboo Prison 1954-06-15
Last of the Pony Riders 1953-11-03
The Old West 1952-09-29
Wagon Team 1952-09-29
Fort Worth 1951-07-14
Rocky Mountain 1950-11-11
Redwood Forest Trail 1950-09-18
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang 1950-04-27
Sands of Iwo Jima 1950-01-01
Sons of New Mexico 1949-12-20
The Strawberry Roan 1948-08-01
Musical Movieland 1944-09-09
The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944-07-20
The Outlaw 1943-02-05
Mountain Rhythm 1943-01-08
The Vanishing Virginian 1942-02-01
Adventure in Washington 1941-05-29
Knute Rockne All American 1940-10-05
Brigham Young 1940-09-27
The Howards of Virginia 1940-09-19
Maryland 1940-07-19
Virginia City 1940-03-23
Pinocchio 1940-02-23
Destry Rides Again 1939-11-30
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939-10-19
Sky Patrol 1939-09-11
On Borrowed Time 1939-07-07
Young Mr. Lincoln 1939-06-09
The Man Who Dared 1939-06-03
Sergeant Madden 1939-03-24
Nancy Drew... Reporter 1939-02-18
Woman Doctor 1939-02-06
The Frontiersmen 1938-12-16
Land of Fighting Men 1938-11-03
Girls on Probation 1938-10-22
A Man to Remember 1938-10-14
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok 1938-06-30
The Devil's Party 1938-06-02
Border Wolves 1938-02-25
The Kid Comes Back 1938-02-12
Hollywood Round-Up 1937-11-06
The Pigskin Palooka 1937-10-23
Love Is on the Air 1937-10-02
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted 1937-09-29
Stella Dallas 1937-08-06
Flying Fists 1937-07-01
Smoke Tree Range 1937-06-05
Land Beyond the Law 1937-03-13
Ready, Willing and Able 1937-03-06
Blake of Scotland Yard 1937-01-30
Blake of Scotland Yard 1937-01-30
Black Legion 1937-01-30
Wild Horse Round-Up 1936-11-20
Daniel Boone 1936-10-16
Who's Looney Now 1936-08-23
Love Begins at Twenty 1936-08-22
36 Hours to Kill 1936-07-24
Sutter's Gold 1936-03-01
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell 1936-01-13
Gasoloons 1936-01-03
Our Gang Follies of 1936 1935-11-29
Moonlight on the Prairie 1935-11-02
O'Shaughnessy's Boy 1935-09-27
Westward Ho 1935-08-19
The Hawk 1935-05-13
The Call of the Savage 1935-04-14
Queen of the Jungle 1935-04-12
Babes in Toyland 1934-12-14
Little Men 1934-01-01

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