Cast

Dickie Jones

Acting

Cast

Dickie Jones

Known for

Acting

Born

1927-02-25

From

Snyder, Texas, USA

Died

2014-07-07

Also known as Richard Percy Jones, Dick Jones, Dicky Jones

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.

Dickie Jones

Dickie Jones

Biography

Pinocchio

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Babes in Toyland

Brigham Young

Flying Fists

Sands of Iwo Jima

The Outlaw

Young Mr. Lincoln

Attila

Woman Doctor

Westward Ho

Destry Rides Again

Disney 100: Remember That

Rocky Mountain

Virginia City

Fort Worth

On Borrowed Time

Knute Rockne All American

The Howards of Virginia

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Gasoloons

The Devil's Bedroom

Redwood Forest Trail

Stella Dallas

Sergeant Madden

Daniel Boone

The Call of the Savage

The Bamboo Prison

The Vanishing Virginian

The Frontiersmen

Love Is on the Air

Girls on Probation

Last of the Pony Riders

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Nancy Drew... Reporter

The Hawk

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

This My Son

Little Men

Sons of New Mexico

Black Legion

Ready, Willing and Able

Mountain Rhythm

Hollywood Round-Up

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

Sutter's Gold

Blake of Scotland Yard

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

The Devil's Party

The Strawberry Roan

A Man to Remember

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

The Kid Comes Back

Love Begins at Twenty

The Cool and the Crazy

The Wild Dakotas

It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story

Moonlight on the Prairie

The Old West

Our Gang Follies of 1936

Savage Fury

The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached

Maryland

Musical Movieland

Blake of Scotland Yard

Wagon Team

Land Beyond the Law

Who's Looney Now

36 Hours to Kill

Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece

The Night Rider

The Man Who Dared

Wild Horse Round-Up

Shadow of the Boomerang

Queen of the Jungle

Sky Patrol