Dickie Jones
Biography
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.
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Movies (46)
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
as Himself
2009
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
as Himself
2000
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
as Self
1993
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
as Self
1989
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
1979
Requiem for a Gunfighter
as Cliff Fletcher
1965
The Devil's Bedroom
as Norm
1964
The Night Rider
as Billy Joe
1962
Shadow of the Boomerang
as Bob Prince
1961
The Cool and the Crazy
as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
1958
The Wild Dakotas
as Mike McGeehee
1956
Savage Fury
as Jan Trevor, as a boy
1956
Attila
1954
This My Son
as Steve Caldwell
1954
The Bamboo Prison
as Jackie
1954
Last of the Pony Riders
as Johnny Blair
1953
The Old West
as Pinto
1952
Wagon Team
as Dave Weldon
1952
Fort Worth
as Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)
1951
Rocky Mountain
as Jim 'Buck' Wheat
1950
Redwood Forest Trail
as Mighty Mite
1950
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
as Richard Reilly (uncredited)
1950
Sands of Iwo Jima
as Scared Marine (uncredited)
1950
Sons of New Mexico
as Randy Pryor
1949
The Strawberry Roan
as Joe Bailey
1948
Musical Movieland
as Tourist (uncredited)
1944
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Young Samuel Clemens
1944
The Outlaw
as Boy (uncredited)
1943
Mountain Rhythm
as Darwood Gates Alton
1943
The Vanishing Virginian
as Robert Yancey, Jr.
1942
Adventure in Washington
as Abbott
1941
Knute Rockne All American
as Boy Captain (uncredited)
1940
Brigham Young
as Henry Kent
1940
The Howards of Virginia
as Matt Howard at 12
1940
Maryland
as Lee Danfield, Age 12
1940
Virginia City
as Cobby
1940
Pinocchio
as Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
1940
Destry Rides Again
as Claggett Boy
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Richard Jones (uncredited)
1939
Sky Patrol
as Bobby Landis
1939
On Borrowed Time
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
1939
The Man Who Dared
as Bill Carter
1939
Sergeant Madden
as Dennis Madden, as a boy
1939
Nancy Drew... Reporter
as Killer Parkins
1939
Woman Doctor
as Johnny
1939
