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Dickie Jones

Born · February 25, 1927

Died · July 7, 2014 (87 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Snyder, Texas, USA

Bio

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

Pinocchio

Pinocchio

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again

Lynch/Oz

Pinocchio (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023

The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached

Himself

2009

A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'

Himself

2000

Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece

Self

1993

It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story

Self

1989

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

Self

1979

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Cliff Fletcher

1965

The Devil's Bedroom

Norm

1964

The Night Rider

Billy Joe

1962

Shadow of the Boomerang

Bob Prince

1961

The Cool and the Crazy

Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)

1958

The Wild Dakotas

Mike McGeehee

1956

Buffalo Bill Jr.

Buffalo Bill Jr. · (42 episodes)

1955

Attila

1954

The Bamboo Prison

Jackie

1954

Last of the Pony Riders

Johnny Blair

1953

The Old West

Pinto

1952

Wagon Team

Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid (as Dick Jones)

1952

Fort Worth

Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)

1951

The Range Rider

(77 episodes)

1951

Rocky Mountain

Jim 'Buck' Wheat

1950

Redwood Forest Trail

Mighty Mite

1950

The Gene Autry Show

(95 episodes)

1950

Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

Richard Reilly (uncredited)

1950

Sands of Iwo Jima

Scared Marine (uncredited)

1950

Sons of New Mexico

Randy Pryor

1949

The Lone Ranger

Jim Douglas · (1 episode)

1949

The Strawberry Roan

Joe Bailey

1948

Musical Movieland

Tourist (uncredited)

1944

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Young Samuel Clemens

1944

The Outlaw

Boy (uncredited)

1943

Mountain Rhythm

Darwood Gates Alton

1943

The Vanishing Virginian

Robert Yancey, Jr.

1942

Adventure in Washington

Abbott

1941

Knute Rockne All American

Boy Captain (uncredited)

1940

Brigham Young

Henry Kent

1940

The Howards of Virginia

Matt Howard at 12

1940

Maryland

Lee Danfield, Age 12

1940

Virginia City

Cobby

1940

Pinocchio

Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)

1940

Destry Rides Again

Claggett Boy

1939

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Richard Jones (uncredited)

1939

Sky Patrol

Bobby Landis

1939

On Borrowed Time

Boy in Tree (uncredited)

1939

Young Mr. Lincoln

Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)

1939

The Man Who Dared

Bill Carter

1939

Sergeant Madden

Dennis Madden, as a boy

1939

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Killer Parkins

1939

Woman Doctor

Johnny

1939

The Frontiersmen

Artie Peters

1938

Land of Fighting Men

Jimmy Mitchell

1938

Girls on Probation

Magazine Newsboy

1938

A Man to Remember

Dick Abbott (as a boy)

1938

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Buddy

1938

The Devil's Party

Young Joe

1938

Border Wolves

Jimmie Benton

1938

The Kid Comes Back

Bobby Doyle

1938

Hollywood Round-Up

Dickie Stevens

1937

The Pigskin Palooka

Spike

1937

Love Is on the Air

Bill - Mouse's Friend

1937

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

Tommy MacDonald

1937

Stella Dallas

Lee Morrison

1937

Flying Fists

Dickie Martin

1937

Smoke Tree Range

Teddy Page

1937

Land Beyond the Law

Bobby Skinner (uncredited)

1937

Ready, Willing and Able

Junior

1937

Blake of Scotland Yard

Bobby Mason

1937

Blake of Scotland Yard

Bobby Mason

1937

Black Legion

Buddy Taylor

1937

Wild Horse Round-Up

Dickie Williams

1936

Daniel Boone

Master Jerry Randolph

1936

Who's Looney Now

Sonny Brown

1936

Love Begins at Twenty

Boy on Streetcar

1936

36 Hours to Kill

Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful

1936

Sutter's Gold

2nd Newsboy

1936

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

Jimmy McLaw

1936

Gasoloons

Wilbur

1936

Our Gang Follies of 1936

Dickie

1935

Moonlight on the Prairie

Dickie Roberts

1935

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

Boy with Sling Shot at Parade

1935

Westward Ho

Jim Wyatt as a Child

1935

The Hawk

Dickie Thomas

1935

The Call of the Savage

Jan Trevor as a Boy

1935

Queen of the Jungle

David Worth as a child

1935

Babes in Toyland

Schoolboy (uncredited)

1934

Little Men

Dolly

1934