Dickie Jones

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Dickie Jones

Acting February 25, 1927

Snyder, Texas, USA

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 o…

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Pinocchio

Pinocchio

7.1 1940 Movie
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

7.8 1939 Movie
The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger

6.8 1949 TV Show
Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again

7.2 1939 Movie
Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

7.2 1939 Movie
Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima

6.4 1950 Movie
Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland

6.3 1934 Movie
The Outlaw

The Outlaw

5.4 1943 Movie
Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas

6.8 1937 Movie
Black Legion

Black Legion

6.6 1937 Movie
On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time

7.6 1939 Movie
Virginia City

Virginia City

6.3 1940 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2023
    Disney 100: Remember That

    Movie Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)

  2. 2009
    The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached

    Movie Self

  3. 2000
    A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'

    Movie Himself

  4. 1993
    Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece

    Movie Self

  5. 1989
    It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story

    Movie Self

  6. 1979
    When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

    Movie Self

  7. 1965
    Requiem for a Gunfighter

    Movie Cliff Fletcher

  8. 1964
    The Devil's Bedroom

    Movie Norm

  9. 1962
    The Night Rider

    Movie Billy Joe

  10. 1961
    Shadow of the Boomerang

    Movie Bob Prince

  11. 1958
    The Cool and the Crazy

    Movie Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)

  12. 1956
    The Wild Dakotas

    Movie Mike McGeehee

  13. 1956
    Savage Fury

    Movie Jan Trevor, as a boy

  14. 1955
    Buffalo Bill Jr.

    TV show Buffalo Bill Jr.

  15. 1954
    Attila

    Movie

  16. 1954
    This My Son

    Movie Steve Caldwell

More credits
  1. 1954
    The Bamboo Prison

    Movie Jackie

  2. 1953
    Last of the Pony Riders

    Movie Johnny Blair

  3. 1952
    Wagon Team

    Movie Dave Weldon

  4. 1952
    The Old West

    Movie Pinto

  5. 1951
    Fort Worth

    Movie Luther Wicks

  6. 1951
    The Range Rider

    TV show Dick West

  7. 1950
    Rocky Mountain

    Movie Jim 'Buck' Wheat

  8. 1950
    Redwood Forest Trail

    Movie Mighty Mite

  9. 1950
    Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

    Movie Richard Reilly (uncredited)

  10. 1950
    Sands of Iwo Jima

    Movie Scared Marine (uncredited)

  11. 1949
    Sons of New Mexico

    Movie Randy Pryor

  12. 1949
    The Lone Ranger

    TV show Jim Douglas

  13. 1948
    The Strawberry Roan

    Movie Joe Bailey

  14. 1944
    Musical Movieland

    Movie Tourist (uncredited)

  15. 1944
    The Adventures of Mark Twain

    Movie Young Samuel Clemens

  16. 1943
    The Outlaw

    Movie Boy (uncredited)

  17. 1943
    Mountain Rhythm

    Movie Darwood Gates Alton

  18. 1942
    The Vanishing Virginian

    Movie Robert Yancey, Jr.

  19. 1941
    Adventure in Washington

    Movie Abbott

  20. 1940
    Knute Rockne All American

    Movie Boy Captain (uncredited)

  21. 1940
    Brigham Young

    Movie Henry Kent

  22. 1940
    The Howards of Virginia

    Movie Matt Howard at 12

  23. 1940
    Maryland

    Movie Lee Danfield, Age 12

  24. 1940
    Virginia City

    Movie Cobby