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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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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The Bamboo Prison | Jackie | 1954-06-15 |
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This My Son | Steve Caldwell | 1954-06-27 |
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Attila | 1954-12-27 | |
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Last of the Pony Riders | Johnny Blair | 1953-11-03 |
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The Old West | Pinto | 1952-09-29 |
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Wagon Team | Dave Weldon | 1952-09-29 |
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Fort Worth | Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones) | 1951-07-14 |
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Sands of Iwo Jima | Scared Marine (uncredited) | 1950-01-01 |
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Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang | Richard Reilly (uncredited) | 1950-04-27 |
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Rocky Mountain | Jim 'Buck' Wheat | 1950-11-11 |
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Redwood Forest Trail | Mighty Mite | 1950-09-18 |
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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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The Outlaw | Boy (uncredited) | 1943-02-05 |
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Mountain Rhythm | Darwood Gates Alton | 1943-01-08 |
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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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Pinocchio | Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited) | 1940-02-23 |
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Virginia City | Cobby | 1940-03-23 |
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Brigham Young | Henry Kent | 1940-09-27 |
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The Howards of Virginia | Matt Howard at 12 | 1940-09-19 |
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Knute Rockne All American | Boy Captain (uncredited) | 1940-10-05 |
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Maryland | Lee Danfield, Age 12 | 1940-07-19 |
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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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The Man Who Dared | Bill Carter | 1939-06-03 |
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Nancy Drew... Reporter | Killer Parkins | 1939-02-18 |
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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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Border Wolves | Jimmie Benton | 1938-02-25 |
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The Devil's Party | Young Joe | 1938-06-02 |
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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 Frontiersmen | Artie Peters | 1938-12-16 |
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Girls on Probation | Magazine Newsboy | 1938-10-22 |
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A Man to Remember | Dick Abbott (as a boy) | 1938-10-14 |
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Land of Fighting Men | Jimmy Mitchell | 1938-11-03 |
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Hollywood Round-Up | Dickie Stevens | 1937-11-06 |
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Flying Fists | Dickie Martin | 1937-07-01 |
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Renfrew of the Royal Mounted | Tommy MacDonald | 1937-09-29 |
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Stella Dallas | Lee Morrison | 1937-08-06 |
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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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Land Beyond the Law | Bobby Skinner (uncredited) | 1937-03-13 |
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Ready, Willing and Able | Junior | 1937-03-06 |
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Smoke Tree Range | Teddy Page | 1937-06-05 |
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Blake of Scotland Yard | Bobby Mason | 1937-01-30 |
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Love Is on the Air | Bill - Mouse's Friend | 1937-10-02 |
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Wild Horse Round-Up | Dickie Williams | 1936-11-20 |
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Gasoloons | Wilbur | 1936-01-03 |
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell | Jimmy McLaw | 1936-01-13 |
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36 Hours to Kill | Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful | 1936-07-24 |
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Who's Looney Now | Sonny Brown | 1936-08-23 |
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Sutter's Gold | 2nd Newsboy | 1936-03-01 |
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Love Begins at Twenty | Boy on Streetcar | 1936-08-22 |
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Daniel Boone | Master Jerry Randolph | 1936-10-16 |
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Queen of the Jungle | David Worth as a child | 1935-04-12 |
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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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The Hawk | Dickie Thomas | 1935-05-13 |
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Moonlight on the Prairie | Dickie Roberts | 1935-11-02 |
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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 |
