Dickie Jones
Born
February 25, 1927
Died
July 7, 2014 (87 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
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
Savage Fury
Jan Trevor, as a boy
1956
Buffalo Bill Jr.
Buffalo Bill Jr. · (42 episodes)
1955
Attila
1954
This My Son
Steve Caldwell
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