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 â 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.
Pinocchio
as Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Richard Jones (uncredited)
The Outlaw
as Boy (uncredited)
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
Westward Ho
as Jim Wyatt as a Child
Virginia City
as Cobby
Maryland
as Lee Danfield, Age 12
Sands of Iwo Jima
as Scared Marine (uncredited)
Sky Patrol
as Bobby Landis
Babes in Toyland
as Schoolboy (uncredited)
Attila
Flying Fists
as Dickie Martin
The Howards of Virginia
as Matt Howard at 12
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
Destry Rides Again
as Claggett Boy
Border Wolves
as Jimmie Benton
Stella Dallas
as Lee Morrison
Nancy Drew... Reporter
as Killer Parkins
The Frontiersmen
as Artie Peters
Knute Rockne All American
as Boy Captain (uncredited)
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
Sergeant Madden
as Dennis Madden, as a boy
Brigham Young
as Henry Kent
Requiem for a Gunfighter
as Cliff Fletcher
Sutter's Gold
as 2nd Newsboy
Black Legion
as Buddy Taylor
Fort Worth
as Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)
Mountain Rhythm
as Darwood Gates Alton
Redwood Forest Trail
as Mighty Mite
The Bamboo Prison
as Jackie
Daniel Boone
as Master Jerry Randolph
Love Is on the Air
as Bill - Mouse's Friend
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
as Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
The Vanishing Virginian
as Robert Yancey, Jr.
A Man to Remember
as Dick Abbott (as a boy)
On Borrowed Time
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
The Devil's Party
as Young Joe
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Buddy
The Old West
as Pinto
Musical Movieland
as Tourist (uncredited)
The Wild Dakotas
as Mike McGeehee
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Young Samuel Clemens
Adventure in Washington
as Abbott
Our Gang Follies of 1936
as Dickie
Wagon Team
as Dave Weldon
Love Begins at Twenty
as Boy on Streetcar
Rocky Mountain
as Jim 'Buck' Wheat
Moonlight on the Prairie
as Dickie Roberts
Ready, Willing and Able
as Junior
Land Beyond the Law
as Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
The Pigskin Palooka
as Spike
Savage Fury
as Jan Trevor, as a boy
The Man Who Dared
as Bill Carter
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
as Richard Reilly (uncredited)
Smoke Tree Range
as Teddy Page
Gasoloons
as Wilbur
Girls on Probation
as Magazine Newsboy
Hollywood Round-Up
as Dickie Stevens
Sons of New Mexico
as Randy Pryor
The Kid Comes Back
as Bobby Doyle
Woman Doctor
as Johnny
Little Men
as Dolly
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
as Himself
Who's Looney Now
as Sonny Brown
The Hawk
as Dickie Thomas
The Devil's Bedroom
as Norm
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
as Self
Blake of Scotland Yard
as Bobby Mason
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
as Self
Blake of Scotland Yard
as Bobby Mason
The Night Rider
as Billy Joe
36 Hours to Kill
as Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
as Jimmy McLaw
Shadow of the Boomerang
as Bob Prince
Queen of the Jungle
as David Worth as a child
The Cool and the Crazy
as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
The Strawberry Roan
as Joe Bailey
This My Son
as Steve Caldwell
Wild Horse Round-Up
as Dickie Williams
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
as Tommy MacDonald
The Call of the Savage
as Jan Trevor as a Boy
Land of Fighting Men
as Jimmy Mitchell
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
as Self
Last of the Pony Riders
as Johnny Blair