Acting
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.
Filmography
Disney 100: Remember That
Film · 2023
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
Film · 2009
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
Film · 2000
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
Film · 1993
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
Film · 1989
Walt Disney's Wet and Wild
Film · 1986
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Film · 1979
Requiem for a Gunfighter
Film · 1965
The Devil's Bedroom
Film · 1964
The Night Rider
Film · 1962
Shadow of the Boomerang
Film · 1961
The Cool and the Crazy
Film · 1958
The Wild Dakotas
Film · 1956
Savage Fury
Film · 1956
Buffalo Bill Jr.
Series · 1955
Attila
Film · 1954
The Bamboo Prison
Film · 1954
This My Son
Film · 1954
Last of the Pony Riders
Film · 1953
The Old West
Film · 1952
Wagon Team
Film · 1952
Fort Worth
Film · 1951
The Range Rider
Series · 1951
Rocky Mountain
Film · 1950
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
Film · 1950
Sands of Iwo Jima
Film · 1950
Redwood Forest Trail
Film · 1950
Sons of New Mexico
Film · 1949
The Lone Ranger
Series · 1949
The Strawberry Roan
Film · 1948
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Film · 1944
Musical Movieland
Film · 1944
Mountain Rhythm
Film · 1943
The Outlaw
Film · 1943
The Vanishing Virginian
Film · 1942
Adventure in Washington
Film · 1941
Pinocchio
Film · 1940
The Howards of Virginia
Film · 1940
Virginia City
Film · 1940
Brigham Young
Film · 1940
Knute Rockne All American
Film · 1940
Maryland
Film · 1940
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Film · 1939
The Man Who Dared
Film · 1939
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Film · 1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
Film · 1939
On Borrowed Time
Film · 1939
Destry Rides Again
Film · 1939
Sergeant Madden
Film · 1939
Sky Patrol
Film · 1939
Woman Doctor
Film · 1939
Land of Fighting Men
Film · 1938
A Man to Remember
Film · 1938
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Film · 1938
Girls on Probation
Film · 1938
The Frontiersmen
Film · 1938
The Kid Comes Back
Film · 1938
The Devil's Party
Film · 1938
Border Wolves
Film · 1938
Stella Dallas
Film · 1937
The Pigskin Palooka
Film · 1937
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Film · 1937
Blake of Scotland Yard
Film · 1937
Hollywood Round-Up
Film · 1937
Flying Fists
Film · 1937
Blake of Scotland Yard
Film · 1937
Ready, Willing and Able
Film · 1937
Love Is on the Air
Film · 1937
Smoke Tree Range
Film · 1937
Land Beyond the Law
Film · 1937
Black Legion
Film · 1937
Who's Looney Now
Film · 1936
Daniel Boone
Film · 1936
Sutter's Gold
Film · 1936
36 Hours to Kill
Film · 1936
Gasoloons
Film · 1936
Wild Horse Round-Up
Film · 1936
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Film · 1936
Love Begins at Twenty
Film · 1936
Queen of the Jungle
Film · 1935
The Hawk
Film · 1935
The Call of the Savage
Film · 1935
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Film · 1935
Westward Ho
Film · 1935
Moonlight on the Prairie
Film · 1935
Our Gang Follies of 1936
Film · 1935
Little Men
Film · 1934
Babes in Toyland
Film · 1934