DICKIE JONES

Dickie Jones
Dickie Jones
Gender: Male
Known for: Acting
Birthday: February 25, 1927
Deathday: July 7, 2014
Place of Birth: 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.

Notable work

Filmography

Starring

Cliff Fletcher
Billy Joe
Bob Prince
Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
Jan Trevor, as a boy
Mike McGeehee
Buffalo Bill Jr.
Steve Caldwell
Jackie
1954·
Attila
Johnny Blair
Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid (as Dick Jones)
Pinto
Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)
Mighty Mite
Scared Marine (uncredited)
Richard Reilly (uncredited)
Jim 'Buck' Wheat
Jim Douglas
Randy Pryor
Joe Bailey
Tourist (uncredited)
Young Samuel Clemens
Boy (uncredited)
Darwood Gates Alton
Robert Yancey, Jr.
1940·
Maryland
Lee Danfield, Age 12
Boy Captain (uncredited)
Henry Kent
Cobby
Matt Howard at 12
1940·
Pinocchio
Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
Johnny
Bobby Landis
Dennis Madden, as a boy
Claggett Boy
Boy in Tree (uncredited)
Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
Killer Parkins
Bill Carter
Richard Jones (uncredited)
Jimmie Benton
Young Joe
Bobby Doyle
Artie Peters
Magazine Newsboy
Dick Abbott (as a boy)
Jimmy Mitchell
Buddy Taylor
Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
Teddy Page
Bill - Mouse's Friend
Bobby Mason, Bobby Mason
Dickie Martin
Dickie Stevens
Tommy MacDonald
Lee Morrison
Boy on Streetcar
Dickie Williams
1936·
Gasoloons
Wilbur
Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
2nd Newsboy
Master Jerry Randolph
Sonny Brown
Dickie Roberts
Jim Wyatt as a Child
Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
Jan Trevor as a Boy
1935·
The Hawk
Dickie Thomas
David Worth as a child
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Dolly