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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.
Lynch/Oz
Pinocchio (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.2
2023
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
Himself
0.0
2009
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
Himself
0.0
2000
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
Self
0.0
1993
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
Self
0.0
1989
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Self
0.0
1979
Requiem for a Gunfighter
Cliff Fletcher
6.0
1965
The Devil's Bedroom
Norm
6.0
1964
The Night Rider
Billy Joe
0.0
1962
Shadow of the Boomerang
Bob Prince
0.0
1961
The Cool and the Crazy
Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
5.1
1958
The Wild Dakotas
Mike McGeehee
0.0
1956
Buffalo Bill Jr.
Buffalo Bill Jr. · (42 episodes)
5.0
1955
Attila
5.3
1954
The Bamboo Prison
Jackie
6.4
1954
Last of the Pony Riders
Johnny Blair
6.0
1953
The Old West
Pinto
5.0
1952
Wagon Team
Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid (as Dick Jones)
6.0
1952
Fort Worth
Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)
6.7
1951
The Range Rider
(77 episodes)
6.8
1951
Rocky Mountain
Jim 'Buck' Wheat
5.7
1950
Redwood Forest Trail
Mighty Mite
0.0
1950
The Gene Autry Show
(95 episodes)
4.2
1950
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
Richard Reilly (uncredited)
6.0
1950
Sands of Iwo Jima
Scared Marine (uncredited)
6.3
1950
Sons of New Mexico
Randy Pryor
5.0
1949
The Lone Ranger
Jim Douglas · (1 episode)
6.6
1949
The Strawberry Roan
Joe Bailey
5.0
1948
Musical Movieland
Tourist (uncredited)
6.0
1944
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Young Samuel Clemens
6.6
1944
The Outlaw
Boy (uncredited)
5.4
1943
Mountain Rhythm
Darwood Gates Alton
0.0
1943
The Vanishing Virginian
Robert Yancey, Jr.
6.0
1942
Adventure in Washington
Abbott
6.5
1941
Knute Rockne All American
Boy Captain (uncredited)
6.0
1940
Brigham Young
Henry Kent
4.4
1940
The Howards of Virginia
Matt Howard at 12
6.4
1940
Maryland
Lee Danfield, Age 12
6.2
1940
Virginia City
Cobby
6.1
1940
Pinocchio
Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
7.1
1940
Destry Rides Again
Claggett Boy
7.2
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Richard Jones (uncredited)
7.9
1939
Sky Patrol
Bobby Landis
4.0
1939
On Borrowed Time
Boy in Tree (uncredited)
7.5
1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
7.2
1939
The Man Who Dared
Bill Carter
5.0
1939
Sergeant Madden
Dennis Madden, as a boy
6.0
1939
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Killer Parkins
6.2
1939
Woman Doctor
Johnny
1.0
1939
The Frontiersmen
Artie Peters
5.0
1938
Land of Fighting Men
Jimmy Mitchell
0.0
1938
Girls on Probation
Magazine Newsboy
5.9
1938
A Man to Remember
Dick Abbott (as a boy)
6.5
1938
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Buddy
0.0
1938
The Devil's Party
Young Joe
5.5
1938
Border Wolves
Jimmie Benton
0.0
1938
The Kid Comes Back
Bobby Doyle
5.3
1938
Hollywood Round-Up
Dickie Stevens
4.4
1937
The Pigskin Palooka
Spike
6.3
1937
Love Is on the Air
Bill - Mouse's Friend
5.0
1937
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Tommy MacDonald
4.3
1937
Stella Dallas
Lee Morrison
6.9
1937
Flying Fists
Dickie Martin
5.0
1937
Smoke Tree Range
Teddy Page
0.0
1937
Land Beyond the Law
Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
7.0
1937
Ready, Willing and Able
Junior
5.2
1937
Blake of Scotland Yard
Bobby Mason
3.0
1937
Blake of Scotland Yard
Bobby Mason
2.0
1937
Black Legion
Buddy Taylor
6.6
1937
Wild Horse Round-Up
Dickie Williams
0.0
1936
Daniel Boone
Master Jerry Randolph
4.9
1936
Who's Looney Now
Sonny Brown
0.0
1936
Love Begins at Twenty
Boy on Streetcar
6.0
1936
36 Hours to Kill
Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
5.3
1936
Sutter's Gold
2nd Newsboy
0.0
1936
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Jimmy McLaw
4.0
1936
Gasoloons
Wilbur
0.0
1936
Our Gang Follies of 1936
Dickie
5.8
1935
Moonlight on the Prairie
Dickie Roberts
5.5
1935
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
6.0
1935
Westward Ho
Jim Wyatt as a Child
5.2
1935
The Hawk
Dickie Thomas
4.5
1935
The Call of the Savage
Jan Trevor as a Boy
5.0
1935
Queen of the Jungle
David Worth as a child
0.0
1935
Babes in Toyland
Schoolboy
6.4
1934
Little Men
Dolly
4.0
1934