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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 25, 1927
Died
July 7, 2014
Place of Birth
Snyder, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- Richard Percy Jones
- Dick Jones
- Dicky Jones
Dickie Jones
0.9 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Himself
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
2009
0.0
Himself
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
2000
2.0
Self
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
1993
0.0
Self
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
1989
0.0
Self
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
6.0
Cliff Fletcher
Requiem for a Gunfighter
1965
6.0
Norm
The Devil's Bedroom
1964
0.0
Billy Joe
The Night Rider
1962
0.0
Bob Prince
Shadow of the Boomerang
1961
5.1
Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
The Cool and the Crazy
1958
Credits
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
as Himself
2009
0.0
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
as Himself
2000
0.0
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
as Self
1993
2.0
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
as Self
1989
0.0
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
1979
0.0
Requiem for a Gunfighter
as Cliff Fletcher
1965
6.0
The Devil's Bedroom
as Norm
1964
6.0
The Night Rider
as Billy Joe
1962
0.0
Shadow of the Boomerang
as Bob Prince
1961
0.0
The Cool and the Crazy
as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
1958
5.1
The Wild Dakotas
as Mike McGeehee
1956
0.0
Savage Fury
as Jan Trevor, as a boy
1956
0.0
Buffalo Bill Jr.
as Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
5.0
Attila
1954
5.3
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This My Son
as Steve Caldwell
1954
0.0
The Bamboo Prison
as Jackie
1954
6.4
Last of the Pony Riders
as Johnny Blair
1953
6.0
The Old West
as Pinto
1952
5.0
Wagon Team
as Dave Weldon
1952
6.0
Fort Worth
as Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)
1951
6.7
The Range Rider
1951
6.8
Rocky Mountain
as Jim 'Buck' Wheat
1950
5.7
Redwood Forest Trail
as Mighty Mite
1950
0.0
The Gene Autry Show
1950
4.2
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
as Richard Reilly (uncredited)
1950
6.0
Sands of Iwo Jima
as Scared Marine (uncredited)
1950
6.4
Sons of New Mexico
as Randy Pryor
1949
5.0
The Lone Ranger
as Jim Douglas
1949
6.8
The Strawberry Roan
as Joe Bailey
1948
5.0
Musical Movieland
as Tourist (uncredited)
1944
6.0
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Young Samuel Clemens
1944
6.6
The Outlaw
as Boy (uncredited)
1943
5.4
Mountain Rhythm
as Darwood Gates Alton
1943
0.0
The Vanishing Virginian
as Robert Yancey, Jr.
1942
6.0
Adventure in Washington
as Abbott
1941
6.0
Knute Rockne All American
as Boy Captain (uncredited)
1940
6.1
Brigham Young
as Henry Kent
1940
4.4
The Howards of Virginia
as Matt Howard at 12
1940
6.5
Maryland
as Lee Danfield, Age 12
1940
6.2
Virginia City
as Cobby
1940
6.1
Pinocchio
as Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
1940
7.1
Destry Rides Again
as Claggett Boy
1939
7.2
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Richard Jones (uncredited)
1939
7.8
Sky Patrol
as Bobby Landis
1939
4.0
On Borrowed Time
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
1939
7.5
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
1939
7.2
The Man Who Dared
as Bill Carter
1939
5.0
Sergeant Madden
as Dennis Madden, as a boy
1939
6.0
Nancy Drew... Reporter
as Killer Parkins
1939
6.0
Woman Doctor
as Johnny
1939
1.0
The Frontiersmen
as Artie Peters
1938
4.0
Land of Fighting Men
as Jimmy Mitchell
1938
0.0
Girls on Probation
as Magazine Newsboy
1938
5.9
A Man to Remember
as Dick Abbott (as a boy)
1938
6.5
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Buddy
1938
0.0
The Devil's Party
as Young Joe
1938
5.0
Border Wolves
as Jimmie Benton
1938
0.0
The Kid Comes Back
as Bobby Doyle
1938
5.3
Hollywood Round-Up
as Dickie Stevens
1937
4.4
The Pigskin Palooka
as Spike
1937
6.3
Love Is on the Air
as Bill - Mouse's Friend
1937
5.0
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
as Tommy MacDonald
1937
3.5
Stella Dallas
as Lee Morrison
1937
6.9
Flying Fists
as Dickie Martin
1937
5.0
Smoke Tree Range
as Teddy Page
1937
0.0
Land Beyond the Law
as Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
1937
7.0
Ready, Willing and Able
as Junior
1937
5.1
Black Legion
as Buddy Taylor
1937
6.6
Blake of Scotland Yard
as Bobby Mason
1937
3.0
Blake of Scotland Yard
as Bobby Mason
1937
2.0
Wild Horse Round-Up
as Dickie Williams
1936
0.0
Daniel Boone
as Master Jerry Randolph
1936
4.6
Who's Looney Now
as Sonny Brown
1936
0.0
Love Begins at Twenty
as Boy on Streetcar
1936
6.0
36 Hours to Kill
as Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
1936
5.3
Sutter's Gold
as 2nd Newsboy
1936
0.0
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
as Jimmy McLaw
1936
4.0
🎬
Gasoloons
as Wilbur
1936
0.0
Our Gang Follies of 1936
as Dickie
1935
5.8
Moonlight on the Prairie
as Dickie Roberts
1935
5.5
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
as Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
1935
6.0
Westward Ho
as Jim Wyatt as a Child
1935
5.3
The Hawk
as Dickie Thomas
1935
4.5
The Call of the Savage
as Jan Trevor as a Boy
1935
5.0
Queen of the Jungle
as David Worth as a child
1935
0.0
Babes in Toyland
as Schoolboy (uncredited)
1934
6.3
Little Men
as Dolly
1934
5.0