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Dickie Jones
Actor
Died July 7, 2014 (87 years)
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
Filmography
| 1987 | Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Heigh-Ho · as Pinocchio |
| 1986 | Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah · as Pinocchio |
| 1975 | A Boy and His Dog · as Man with Shotgun |
| 1965 | Requiem for a Gunfighter · as Cliff Fletcher |
| 1958 | The Cool and the Crazy · as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones) |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as John Hunter |
| 1955 | Buffalo Bill Jr. (TV Series) · as Buffalo Bill Jr. |
| 1954 | The Bridges at Toko-Ri · as Pilot |
| 1954 | Attila · as Unknown |
| 1954 | Annie Oakley (TV Series) · as Bob Neil |
| 1953 | Last of the Pony Riders · as Johnny Blair |
| 1952 | Wagon Team · as Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid (as Dick Jones) |
| 1952 | The Old West · as Pinto |
| 1952 | Mr. & Mrs. North (TV Series) · as Chuck Walker |
| 1951 | Fort Worth · as Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones) |
| 1951 | The Range Rider (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1950 | Rocky Mountain · as Jim 'Buck' Wheat |
| 1950 | The Gene Autry Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1949 | Battleground · as Tanker |
| 1949 | Sons of New Mexico · as Randy Pryor |
| 1949 | The Lone Ranger (TV Series) · as Jim Douglas |
| 1949 | Sands of Iwo Jima · as Scared Marine (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Angel on the Amazon · as George |
| 1948 | The Strawberry Roan · as Joe Bailey |
| 1944 | The Adventures of Mark Twain · as Young Samuel Clemens |
| 1943 | The Outlaw · as Boy |
| 1943 | Heaven Can Wait · as Albert, age 15 |
| 1940 | Virginia City · as Cobby |
| 1940 | Knute Rockne All American · as Boy Captain (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Howards of Virginia · as Matt Howard at 12 |
| 1940 | Brigham Young · as Henry Kent |
| 1940 | Hi-Yo Silver · as The Boy |
| 1940 | Pinocchio · as Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Nancy Drew... Reporter · as Killer Parkins |
| 1939 | On Borrowed Time · as Boy in Tree (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Destry Rides Again · as Claggett Boy |
| 1939 | Young Mr. Lincoln · as Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Sky Patrol · as Bobby Landis |
| 1939 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · as Richard Jones (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Frontiersmen · as Artie Peters |
| 1938 | The Devil's Party · as Young Joe |
| 1938 | Kangaroo Kid · as Elmer |
| 1937 | Black Legion · as Buddy Taylor |
| 1937 | Stella Dallas · as Lee Morrison |
| 1937 | Renfrew of the Royal Mounted · as Tommy MacDonald |
| 1937 | Blake of Scotland Yard · as Bobby Mason |
| 1937 | Our Gang Follies of 1938 · as Dickie, Curtain Operator |
| 1936 | Little Lord Fauntleroy · as Ceddie at Age 7 |
| 1936 | Daniel Boone · as Master Jerry Randolph |
| 1936 | Exclusive Story · as Higgins' Older Son |
| 1936 | Pepper · as Member of Pepper's Gang |
| 1935 | Westward Ho · as Jim Wyatt as a Child |
| 1935 | Life Returns · as Newsboy |
| 1935 | The Hawk · as Dickie Thomas |
| 1935 | Queen of the Jungle · as David Worth as a child |
| 1934 | March of the Wooden Soldiers · as Schoolboy (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Little Men · as Dolly |
| 1934 | Kid Millions · as Little Boy in Ice Cream Number |
| 1934 | Burn 'Em Up Barnes · as Schoolboy [Chs. 1, 7] |