Dickie Jones

Known for ActingBorn 1927-02-25Died 2014-07-07Snyder, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Disney 100: Remember That

Gasoloons

Wild Horse Round-Up

The Wild Dakotas

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'

Land Beyond the Law

The Night Rider

Shadow of the Boomerang

Mountain Rhythm

Border Wolves

Who's Looney Now

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Requiem for a Gunfighter

The Devil's Bedroom

On Borrowed Time

Musical Movieland

Sergeant Madden

The Vanishing Virginian

Young Mr. Lincoln

Destry Rides Again

Fort Worth

Savage Fury

The Old West

Pinocchio

The Range Rider

Redwood Forest Trail

Adventure in Washington

The Man Who Dared

Land of Fighting Men

Smoke Tree Range

Sutter's Gold

Queen of the Jungle

The Adventures of Mark Twain

The Lone Ranger

Stella Dallas

Our Gang Follies of 1936

The Howards of Virginia

Moonlight on the Prairie

A Man to Remember

Last of the Pony Riders

Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

Sons of New Mexico

The Strawberry Roan

Black Legion

The Bamboo Prison

Maryland

Sands of Iwo Jima