Dickie Jones

🎂 Data nașterii: 1927-02-25 (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.

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Mountain Rhythm

Land of Fighting Men

Pinocchio

Little Men

Stella Dallas

Queen of the Jungle

Rocky Mountain

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

The Pigskin Palooka

The Hawk

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

Last of the Pony Riders

Attila

The Wild Dakotas

Who's Looney Now

Blake of Scotland Yard

A Man to Remember

Daniel Boone

Shadow of the Boomerang

Adventure in Washington

The Howards of Virginia

Dl. Smith merge la Washington

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Hollywood Round-Up

Flying Fists

Blake of Scotland Yard

The Night Rider

The Strawberry Roan

The Man Who Dared

Ready, Willing and Able

Sutter's Gold

36 Hours to Kill

It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story

Love Is on the Air

The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached

Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece

The Outlaw

Girls on Probation

Virginia City

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Young Mr. Lincoln

On Borrowed Time

Gasoloons

The Call of the Savage

Destry Rides Again

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

Sergeant Madden

Sky Patrol

Smoke Tree Range

Wild Horse Round-Up

Sons of New Mexico

Westward Ho

The Old West

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

Babes in Toyland

A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'

Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

Moonlight on the Prairie

Brigham Young

The Frontiersmen

Fort Worth

Love Begins at Twenty

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Land Beyond the Law

Knute Rockne All American

Maryland

Iwo Jima

Redwood Forest Trail

Wagon Team

Woman Doctor

The Kid Comes Back

The Vanishing Virginian

The Devil's Party

Border Wolves

The Devil's Bedroom

Aventurile lui Mark Twain

Black Legion

The Bamboo Prison