1927-02-25 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 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.
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Disney 100: Remember That | Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice) | 2023-10-23 |
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The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached | Himself | 2009-03-10 |
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A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio' | Himself | 2000-12-22 |
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Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece | Self | 1993-04-07 |
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It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story | Self | 1989-10-14 |
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When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion | Self | 1979-06-05 |
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Requiem for a Gunfighter | Cliff Fletcher | 1965-06-30 |
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The Devil's Bedroom | Norm | 1964-09-01 |
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The Night Rider | Billy Joe | 1962-01-01 |
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Shadow of the Boomerang | Bob Prince | 1961-08-07 |
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The Cool and the Crazy | Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones) | 1958-03-01 |
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Savage Fury | Jan Trevor, as a boy | 1956-01-01 |
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The Wild Dakotas | Mike McGeehee | 1956-02-28 |
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Attila | 1954-12-27 | |
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This My Son | Steve Caldwell | 1954-06-27 |
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The Bamboo Prison | Jackie | 1954-06-15 |
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Last of the Pony Riders | Johnny Blair | 1953-11-03 |
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Wagon Team | Dave Weldon | 1952-09-29 |
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The Old West | Pinto | 1952-09-29 |
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Fort Worth | Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones) | 1951-07-14 |
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Rocky Mountain | Jim 'Buck' Wheat | 1950-11-11 |
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Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang | Richard Reilly (uncredited) | 1950-04-27 |
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Redwood Forest Trail | Mighty Mite | 1950-09-18 |
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Sands of Iwo Jima | Scared Marine (uncredited) | 1950-01-01 |
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Sons of New Mexico | Randy Pryor | 1949-12-20 |
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The Strawberry Roan | Joe Bailey | 1948-08-01 |
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Musical Movieland | Tourist (uncredited) | 1944-09-09 |
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The Adventures of Mark Twain | Young Samuel Clemens | 1944-07-20 |
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Mountain Rhythm | Darwood Gates Alton | 1943-01-08 |
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The Outlaw | Boy (uncredited) | 1943-02-05 |
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The Vanishing Virginian | Robert Yancey, Jr. | 1942-02-01 |
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Adventure in Washington | Abbott | 1941-05-29 |
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Virginia City | Cobby | 1940-03-23 |
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The Howards of Virginia | Matt Howard at 12 | 1940-09-19 |
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Pinocchio | Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited) | 1940-02-23 |
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Brigham Young | Henry Kent | 1940-09-27 |
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Maryland | Lee Danfield, Age 12 | 1940-07-19 |
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Knute Rockne All American | Boy Captain (uncredited) | 1940-10-05 |
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Sergeant Madden | Dennis Madden, as a boy | 1939-03-24 |
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Destry Rides Again | Claggett Boy | 1939-11-30 |
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Woman Doctor | Johnny | 1939-02-06 |
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Sky Patrol | Bobby Landis | 1939-09-11 |
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On Borrowed Time | Boy in Tree (uncredited) | 1939-07-07 |
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Richard Jones (uncredited) | 1939-10-19 |
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Young Mr. Lincoln | Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited) | 1939-06-09 |
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Nancy Drew... Reporter | Killer Parkins | 1939-02-18 |
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The Man Who Dared | Bill Carter | 1939-06-03 |
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A Man to Remember | Dick Abbott (as a boy) | 1938-10-14 |
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The Kid Comes Back | Bobby Doyle | 1938-02-12 |
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Buddy | 1938-06-30 |
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The Devil's Party | Young Joe | 1938-06-02 |
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The Frontiersmen | Artie Peters | 1938-12-16 |
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Border Wolves | Jimmie Benton | 1938-02-25 |
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Girls on Probation | Magazine Newsboy | 1938-10-22 |
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Land of Fighting Men | Jimmy Mitchell | 1938-11-03 |
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Stella Dallas | Lee Morrison | 1937-08-06 |
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Hollywood Round-Up | Dickie Stevens | 1937-11-06 |
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The Pigskin Palooka | Spike | 1937-10-23 |
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Black Legion | Buddy Taylor | 1937-01-30 |
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Blake of Scotland Yard | Bobby Mason | 1937-01-30 |
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Renfrew of the Royal Mounted | Tommy MacDonald | 1937-09-29 |
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Flying Fists | Dickie Martin | 1937-07-01 |
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Land Beyond the Law | Bobby Skinner (uncredited) | 1937-03-13 |
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Smoke Tree Range | Teddy Page | 1937-06-05 |
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Ready, Willing and Able | Junior | 1937-03-06 |
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Love Is on the Air | Bill - Mouse's Friend | 1937-10-02 |
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Blake of Scotland Yard | Bobby Mason | 1937-01-30 |
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Love Begins at Twenty | Boy on Streetcar | 1936-08-22 |
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Wild Horse Round-Up | Dickie Williams | 1936-11-20 |
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell | Jimmy McLaw | 1936-01-13 |
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Gasoloons | Wilbur | 1936-01-03 |
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Who's Looney Now | Sonny Brown | 1936-08-23 |
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36 Hours to Kill | Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful | 1936-07-24 |
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Daniel Boone | Master Jerry Randolph | 1936-10-16 |
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Sutter's Gold | 2nd Newsboy | 1936-03-01 |
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Our Gang Follies of 1936 | Dickie | 1935-11-29 |
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy | Boy with Sling Shot at Parade | 1935-09-27 |
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Moonlight on the Prairie | Dickie Roberts | 1935-11-02 |
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Queen of the Jungle | David Worth as a child | 1935-04-12 |
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The Hawk | Dickie Thomas | 1935-05-13 |
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The Call of the Savage | Jan Trevor as a Boy | 1935-04-14 |
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Westward Ho | Jim Wyatt as a Child | 1935-08-19 |
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Babes in Toyland | Schoolboy (uncredited) | 1934-12-14 |
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Little Men | Dolly | 1934-01-01 |
