L.Q. Jones

L. Q. Jones (born August 19, 1927, died July 9th 2022) was an American character actor and film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah. Jones was born in Beaumont in southeastern Texas, the son of Jessie Paralee (née Stephens) and Justus Ellis McQueen Sr., a railroad worker. After serving in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946, Jones attended Lamar Junior College (now Lamar University) and then studied law at the University of Texas at Austin from 1950 to 1951. He worked as a stand-up comic, briefly played professional baseball and football, and even tried ranching in Nicaragua before turning to acting after corresponding with his former college roommate, Fess Parker. At the time, in 1954, Parker was already in Hollywood working in films and on television. Jones is a practicing Methodist and a registered Republican. Jones made his film debut in 1955 in Battle Cry, credited under his birth name Justus McQueen. His character's name in that film, however, was "L. Q. Jones", a name he liked and decided to adopt as his stage name for all of his future roles as an actor. In 1955, he was cast as "Smitty Smith" in three episodes of Clint Walker's ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Cheyenne, the first hour-long western on network television. Jones appeared in numerous films in the 1960s and 1970s. He became a member of Sam Peckinpah's stock company of actors, appearing in his Klondike series (1960–1961), Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (1973). Jones was frequently cast alongside his close friend Strother Martin, most memorably as the posse member and bounty hunter "T. C." in The Wild Bunch. Jones also appeared as recurring characters on such western series as Cheyenne (1955), Gunsmoke (1955), Laramie, Two Faces West (1960–1961), and as ranch hand Andy Belden in The Virginian (1962). That same year (1962) Jones appeared as Ollie Earnshaw, a rich rancher looking for a bride on Lawman in the episode titled "The Bride. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia CLR

Known For: Acting

Born: Beaumont, Texas, USA, 1927-08-19

Died: 2022-07-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Battle Cry	Pvt. L.Q. Jones	57
2	1955	An Annapolis Story	Watson	33
3	1955	Target Zero	Pvt. Felix O'Hara	53
4	1956	Santiago	Digger	53
5	1956	Toward the Unknown	2nd Lt. Sweeney	56
6	1956	Between Heaven and Hell	Pvt. Kenny - Co. G	59
7	1956	Love Me Tender	Pardee Fleming (uncredited)	61
8	1957	Men in War	Sgt. Davis	66
9	1957	Operation Mad Ball	Ozark	66
10	1957	Gunsight Ridge	Lazy Heart Ranch Hand	60
11	1958	The Young Lions	Pvt. Donnelly (uncredited)	68
12	1958	Buchanan Rides Alone	Pecos Hill	65
13	1958	The Naked and the Dead	Woodrow Wilson	59
14	1958	Torpedo Run	'Hash' Benson	59
15	1959	Warlock	Fen Jiggs (uncredited)	67
16	1959	Battle of the Coral Sea	Yeoman Halliday	56
17	1959	Hound-Dog Man	Dave Wilson	44
18	1960	Ten Who Dared	Billy Hawkins	59
19	1960	Cimarron	Millis	60
20	1960	Flaming Star	Tom Howard	65
21	1962	Ride the High Country	Sylvus Hammond	70
22	1962	Hell Is for Heroes	Supply Sgt. Frazer	65
23	1963	Showdown	Foray	59
24	1964	Iron Angel	Buttons	60
25	1964	The Devil's Bedroom	(as Justus McQueen)	60
26	1964	Apache Rifles	Mike Greer	56
27	1965	Major Dundee	Arthur Hadley	67
28	1966	Noon Wine	Deputy	70
29	1968	Stay Away, Joe	Bronc Hoverty	53
30	1968	Hang 'em High	Loomis	69
31	1968	The Counterfeit Killer	Hotel Clerk	0
32	1969	The Wild Bunch	T.C	76
33	1970	The Ballad of Cable Hogue	Taggart	70
34	1970	The McMasters	Russel	44
35	1971	The Hunting Party	Hog Warren	62
36	1971	The Brotherhood of Satan	Sheriff	58
37	1972	The Bravos	Ben Lawler	57
38	1972	Fireball Forward	Maj. Larkin	50
39	1972	43: The Richard Petty Story	Ed Koler	65
40	1973	Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	Black Harris	72
41	1974	Mrs. Sundance	Charles Siringo	75
42	1974	Manhunter	Charles 'Crutch' Shanks	65
43	1974	The Strange and Deadly Occurrence	Sheriff Berlinger	61
44	1975	Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan	Roy Ralstop	50
45	1975	A Boy and His Dog	Porn Stud	63
46	1975	White Line Fever	Buck Wessle	60
47	1975	Winterhawk	Gates	66
48	1976	Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free	Sheriff Tadlock	0
49	1976	Mother, Jugs & Speed	Davey	54
50	1978	Standing Tall	Nate Rackley	40
51	1978	Colorado C.I.	Hoyt Gunnison	0
52	1979	Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider	Floyd	51
53	1982	The Beast Within	Sheriff Pool	55
54	1982	Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann	Ben Potter	53
55	1983	Sacred Ground	Tolbert Coleman	60
56	1983	Lone Wolf McQuade	Dakota	65
57	1988	Bulletproof	Sgt. O'Rourke	50
58	1989	River of Death	Hiller	49
59	1991	The Legend Of Grizzly Adams	Reno	30
60	1993	Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron	Self	69
61	1994	Lightning Jack	Sheriff	55
62	1995	Casino	Pat Webb	80
63	1996	Tornado!	Ephram Thorne	58
64	1996	The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage	Self	70
65	1997	The Edge	Styles	68
66	1998	The Patriot	Frank	56
67	1998	The Mask of Zorro	Three-Fingered Jack	66
68	1999	The Jack Bull	Henry Ballard	64
69	2001	Route 666	Sheriff Bob Conaway	51
70	2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self	74
71	2005	Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah	Self	70
72	2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Chuck Akers	63
73	2024	Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Annie Oakley	Ned Blane	52
2	1954	Lassie		61
3	1955	Gunsmoke	Skinner	66
4	1955	Gunsmoke	Brady	66
5	1955	Gunsmoke	Wally	66
6	1955	Gunsmoke	Kittridge	66
7	1955	Gunsmoke	Nix	66
8	1955	Gunsmoke	Sumner Pendleton	66
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Gecko Ridley	66
10	1955	Cheyenne	Smitty Smith	58
11	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
12	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Bill Renn - Cowboy	74
13	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Hector	74
14	1957	Wagon Train	Lenny	63
15	1957	Wagon Train	Squirrel Charvanaugh	63
16	1957	Perry Mason	Charles Barnaby	77
17	1957	Perry Mason	Edward Lewis	77
18	1958	Jefferson Drum	Burdette	45
19	1958	Lawman	Ollie Earnshaw	56
20	1959	Rawhide	George Cornelius	72
21	1959	Rawhide	Pee Jay Peters	72
22	1959	Rawhide	Luke	72
23	1959	Black Saddle	Jack Shepherd	60
24	1959	Tightrope	Earl Bell	55
25	1959	Laramie		64
26	1959	Lock-Up		62
27	1959	Wichita Town		42
28	1959	Johnny Ringo	Billy Boy Jethro	57
29	1959	The Rebel	Otis Rumph	51
30	1959	The Rebel	Roy Shandell	51
31	1959	The Detectives		56
32	1960	Route 66		63
33	1961	Ben Casey		56
34	1962	The Virginian	Belden	65
35	1962	The Virginian	Andy	65
36	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Ernie Packer	57
37	1965	Branded		64
38	1965	The Big Valley	Cort	61
39	1965	The Big Valley	Earl Vaughn	61
40	1965	The Big Valley	Hutch	61
41	1965	The Big Valley	Curtis	61
42	1965	The Big Valley	Gus Vandiver	61
43	1965	The F.B.I.	Wesley Davis	55
44	1965	The F.B.I.	Al Tanner	55
45	1966	ABC Stage 67	Deputy	62
46	1966	Pistols 'n' Petticoats		75
47	1967	Ironside	Lt. Mark Cardiff	68
48	1967	Ironside	Harry Ashton	68
49	1967	Cimarron Strip		50
50	1967	Hondo		65
51	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Col. Lew Cardell	71
52	1968	Lancer		47
53	1970	McCloud		71
54	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
55	1971	Cannon		65
56	1971	Columbo	Gun Dealer	81
57	1972	Assignment: Vienna	Slim Warfield	0
58	1972	Kung Fu	Sgt. Straight	77
59	1972	Kung Fu	Maj. Clarke Bealson	77
60	1973	The Magician	Johnson	67
61	1974	Movin' On		52
62	1975	Matt Helm		74
63	1976	Charlie's Angels	Sgt. Billings	67
64	1976	Charlie's Angels	Dan Jarvis	67
65	1976	Charlie's Angels	Sam Mason	67
66	1976	Charlie's Angels	Burdette	67
67	1977	How the West Was Won	Batlin	69
68	1977	CHiPs	Hoskins	68
69	1977	The Incredible Hulk		73
70	1978	The Runaways		50
71	1978	The Eddie Capra Mysteries		50
72	1978	Vega$		70
73	1979	The Sacketts	Belden	77
74	1980	Wild Times	Wild Bill Hickock	60
75	1980	Enos		60
76	1981	Riker	Massey	50
77	1981	The Fall Guy	Sheriff Dwight LeClerc	76
78	1982	Matt Houston		62
79	1982	Voyagers!		75
80	1983	The A-Team	Chuck Danford	75
81	1983	The Yellow Rose		60
82	1992	Renegade		67
83	1992	Renegade	Nathan Wayne	67
84	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Billy Selkirk	70
85	1996	In Cold Blood		60

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