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Dickie Jones

Dickie Jones

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

Personal information

Birthday

1927-02-25

Birth Place

Snyder, Texas, USA

Movies and TV shows :

36 Hours to Kill

36 Hours to Kill

1936

5.3

Movie
A Man to Remember

A Man to Remember

1938

6.5

Movie
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'

A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'

2000

0.0

Movie
Adventure in Washington

Adventure in Washington

1941

6.5

Movie
Attila

Attila

1954

5.3

Movie
Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland

1934

6.3

Movie
Black Legion

Black Legion

1937

6.5

Movie
Blake of Scotland Yard

Blake of Scotland Yard

1937

3.0

Movie
Blake of Scotland Yard

Blake of Scotland Yard

1937

2.0

Movie
Border Wolves

Border Wolves

1938

0.0

Movie
Brigham Young

Brigham Young

1940

4.4

Movie
poster

Buffalo Bill Jr.

1955

5.0

TV
Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

1936

4.8

Movie
Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again

1939

7.1

Movie
Flying Fists

Flying Fists

1937

5.0

Movie
Fort Worth

Fort Worth

1951

6.7

Movie
Gasoloons

Gasoloons

1936

0.0

Movie
Girls on Probation

Girls on Probation

1938

5.9

Movie
Hollywood Round-Up

Hollywood Round-Up

1937

4.4

Movie
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story

It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story

1989

0.0

Movie
Knute Rockne All American

Knute Rockne All American

1940

6.0

Movie
Land Beyond the Law

Land Beyond the Law

1937

7.0

Movie
Land of Fighting Men

Land of Fighting Men

1938

0.0

Movie
Last of the Pony Riders

Last of the Pony Riders

1953

6.0

Movie
Little Men

Little Men

1934

4.0

Movie
Love Begins at Twenty

Love Begins at Twenty

1936

6.0

Movie
Love Is on the Air

Love Is on the Air

1937

5.0

Movie
Maryland

Maryland

1940

6.2

Movie
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

1950

6.0

Movie
Moonlight on the Prairie

Moonlight on the Prairie

1935

5.5

Movie
Mountain Rhythm

Mountain Rhythm

1943

0.0

Movie
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

7.9

Movie
Musical Movieland

Musical Movieland

1944

6.0

Movie
Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter

1939

6.2

Movie
O'Shaughnessy's Boy

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

1935

6.0

Movie
On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time

1939

7.5

Movie
Our Gang Follies of 1936

Our Gang Follies of 1936

1935

5.8

Movie
Pinocchio

Pinocchio

1940

7.1

Movie
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece

Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece

1993

0.0

Movie
Queen of the Jungle

Queen of the Jungle

1935

0.0

Movie
Ready, Willing and Able

Ready, Willing and Able

1937

5.2

Movie
Redwood Forest Trail

Redwood Forest Trail

1950

0.0

Movie
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

1937

4.3

Movie
Requiem for a Gunfighter

Requiem for a Gunfighter

1965

6.0

Movie
Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain

1950

5.7

Movie
Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima

1950

6.4

Movie
Sergeant Madden

Sergeant Madden

1939

6.0

Movie
Shadow of the Boomerang

Shadow of the Boomerang

1961

0.0

Movie
Sky Patrol

Sky Patrol

1939

4.0

Movie
Smoke Tree Range

Smoke Tree Range

1937

0.0

Movie
Sons of New Mexico

Sons of New Mexico

1949

5.0

Movie
Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas

1937

6.9

Movie
Sutter's Gold

Sutter's Gold

1936

0.0

Movie
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

1936

4.0

Movie
The Adventures of Mark Twain

The Adventures of Mark Twain

1944

6.6

Movie
The Bamboo Prison

The Bamboo Prison

1954

6.4

Movie
The Call of the Savage

The Call of the Savage

1935

5.0

Movie
The Cool and the Crazy

The Cool and the Crazy

1958

5.1

Movie
The Devil's Bedroom

The Devil's Bedroom

1964

6.0

Movie
The Devil's Party

The Devil's Party

1938

5.5

Movie
The Frontiersmen

The Frontiersmen

1938

5.0

Movie
poster

The Gene Autry Show

1950

4.8

TV
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1938

0.0

Movie
The Hawk

The Hawk

1935

4.5

Movie
The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia

1940

6.4

Movie
The Kid Comes Back

The Kid Comes Back

1938

5.3

Movie
poster

The Lone Ranger

1949

6.8

TV
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached

The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached

2009

0.0

Movie
The Man Who Dared

The Man Who Dared

1939

5.0

Movie
The Night Rider

The Night Rider

1962

0.0

Movie
The Old West

The Old West

1952

5.0

Movie
The Outlaw

The Outlaw

1943

5.4

Movie
The Pigskin Palooka

The Pigskin Palooka

1937

6.3

Movie
poster

The Range Rider

1951

6.8

TV
The Strawberry Roan

The Strawberry Roan

1948

5.0

Movie
The Vanishing Virginian

The Vanishing Virginian

1942

6.0

Movie
The Wild Dakotas

The Wild Dakotas

1956

0.0

Movie
Virginia City

Virginia City

1940

6.1

Movie
Wagon Team

Wagon Team

1952

6.0

Movie
Westward Ho

Westward Ho

1935

5.3

Movie
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979

0.0

Movie
Who's Looney Now

Who's Looney Now

1936

0.0

Movie
Wild Horse Round-Up

Wild Horse Round-Up

1936

0.0

Movie
Woman Doctor

Woman Doctor

1939

1.0

Movie
Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939

7.2

Movie