Dickie Jones

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Snyder, Texas, USA, 1927-02-25

Died: 2014-07-07

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1934	Little Men	Dolly	50
2	1934	Babes in Toyland	Schoolboy (uncredited)	63
3	1935	Queen of the Jungle	David Worth as a child	0
4	1935	The Call of the Savage	Jan Trevor as a Boy	50
5	1935	The Hawk	Dickie Thomas	45
6	1935	Westward Ho	Jim Wyatt as a Child	53
7	1935	O'Shaughnessy's Boy	Boy with Sling Shot at Parade	60
8	1935	Moonlight on the Prairie	Dickie Roberts	55
9	1935	Our Gang Follies of 1936	Dickie	58
10	1936	Gasoloons	Wilbur	0
11	1936	The Adventures of Frank Merriwell	Jimmy McLaw	40
12	1936	Sutter's Gold	2nd Newsboy	0
13	1936	36 Hours to Kill	Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful	53
14	1936	Love Begins at Twenty	Boy on Streetcar	60
15	1936	Who's Looney Now	Sonny Brown	0
16	1936	Daniel Boone	Master Jerry Randolph	46
17	1936	Wild Horse Round-Up	Dickie Williams	0
18	1937	Blake of Scotland Yard	Bobby Mason	25
19	1937	Blake of Scotland Yard	Bobby Mason	20
20	1937	Black Legion	Buddy Taylor	66
21	1937	Ready, Willing and Able	Junior	51
22	1937	Land Beyond the Law	Bobby Skinner (uncredited)	70
23	1937	Smoke Tree Range	Teddy Page	0
24	1937	Flying Fists	Dickie Martin	50
25	1937	Stella Dallas	Lee Morrison	68
26	1937	Renfrew of the Royal Mounted	Tommy MacDonald	35
27	1937	Love Is on the Air	Bill - Mouse's Friend	50
28	1937	The Pigskin Palooka	Spike	63
29	1937	Hollywood Round-Up	Dickie Stevens	44
30	1938	The Kid Comes Back	Bobby Doyle	53
31	1938	Border Wolves	Jimmie Benton	0
32	1938	The Devil's Party	Young Joe	49
33	1938	The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok	Buddy	0
34	1938	A Man to Remember	Dick Abbott (as a boy)	65
35	1938	Girls on Probation	Magazine Newsboy	59
36	1938	Land of Fighting Men	Jimmy Mitchell	0
37	1938	The Frontiersmen	Artie Peters	50
38	1939	Woman Doctor	Johnny	10
39	1939	Nancy Drew... Reporter	Killer Parkins	60
40	1939	Sergeant Madden	Dennis Madden, as a boy	60
41	1939	The Man Who Dared	Bill Carter	50
42	1939	Young Mr. Lincoln	Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)	72
43	1939	On Borrowed Time	Boy in Tree (uncredited)	75
44	1939	Sky Patrol	Bobby Landis	40
45	1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Richard Jones (uncredited)	79
46	1939	Destry Rides Again	Claggett Boy	72
47	1940	Pinocchio	Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)	71
48	1940	Virginia City	Cobby	61
49	1940	Maryland	Lee Danfield, Age 12	62
50	1940	The Howards of Virginia	Matt Howard at 12	65
51	1940	Brigham Young	Henry Kent	44
52	1940	Knute Rockne All American	Boy Captain (uncredited)	61
53	1941	Adventure in Washington	Abbott	65
54	1942	The Vanishing Virginian	Robert Yancey, Jr.	60
55	1943	Mountain Rhythm	Darwood Gates Alton	0
56	1943	The Outlaw	Boy (uncredited)	54
57	1944	The Adventures of Mark Twain	Young Samuel Clemens	66
58	1944	Musical Movieland	Tourist (uncredited)	60
59	1948	The Strawberry Roan	Joe Bailey	50
60	1949	Sons of New Mexico	Randy Pryor	50
61	1950	Sands of Iwo Jima	Scared Marine (uncredited)	64
62	1950	Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang	Richard Reilly (uncredited)	60
63	1950	Redwood Forest Trail	Mighty Mite	0
64	1950	Rocky Mountain	Jim 'Buck' Wheat	57
65	1951	Fort Worth	Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)	67
66	1952	The Old West	Pinto	50
67	1952	Wagon Team	Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid (as Dick Jones)	60
68	1953	Last of the Pony Riders	Johnny Blair	60
69	1954	The Bamboo Prison	Jackie	64
70	1954	This My Son	Steve Caldwell	0
71	1954	Attila		53
72	1956	Savage Fury	Jan Trevor, as a boy	0
73	1956	The Wild Dakotas	Mike McGeehee	0
74	1958	The Cool and the Crazy	Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)	51
75	1961	Shadow of the Boomerang	Bob Prince	0
76	1962	The Night Rider	Billy Joe	0
77	1964	The Devil's Bedroom	Norm	60
78	1965	Requiem for a Gunfighter	Cliff Fletcher	60
79	1979	When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion	Self	0
80	1989	It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story	Self	0
81	1993	Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece	Self	0
82	2000	A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'	Himself	0
83	2009	The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached	Himself	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The Lone Ranger	Jim Douglas	67
2	1950	The Gene Autry Show		42
3	1951	The Range Rider		68
4	1955	Buffalo Bill Jr.	Buffalo Bill Jr.	50

Dickie Jones

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