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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 19, 1927
Died
July 9, 2022
Place of Birth
Beaumont, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- Justus McQueen
- Justus E. McQueen
- LQ Jones
- Justus Ellis McQueen, Jr.
L.Q. Jones
1.6 Popularity
Biography
L. Q. Jones (born August 19, 1927, died July 9th 2022) was an American character actor and film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah. Jones was born in Beaumont in southeastern Texas, the son of Jessie Paralee (née Stephens) and Justus Ellis McQueen Sr., a railroad worker. After serving in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946, Jones attended Lamar Junior College (now Lamar University) and then studied law at the University of Texas at Austin from 1950 to 1951. He worked as a stand-up comic, briefly played professional baseball and football, and even tried ranching in Nicaragua before turning to acting after corresponding with his former college roommate, Fess Parker. At the time, in 1954, Parker was already in Hollywood working in films and on television. Jones is a practicing Methodist and a registered Republican. Jones made his film debut in 1955 in Battle Cry, credited under his birth name Justus McQueen. His character's name in that film, however, was "L. Q. Jones", a name he liked and decided to adopt as his stage name for all of his future roles as an actor. In 1955, he was cast as "Smitty Smith" in three episodes of Clint Walker's ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Cheyenne, the first hour-long western on network television. Jones appeared in numerous films in the 1960s and 1970s. He became a member of Sam Peckinpah's stock company of actors, appearing in his Klondike series (1960–1961), Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (1973). Jones was frequently cast alongside his close friend Strother Martin, most memorably as the posse member and bounty hunter "T. C." in The Wild Bunch. Jones also appeared as recurring characters on such western series as Cheyenne (1955), Gunsmoke (1955), Laramie, Two Faces West (1960–1961), and as ranch hand Andy Belden in The Virginian (1962). That same year (1962) Jones appeared as Ollie Earnshaw, a rich rancher looking for a bride on Lawman in the episode titled "The Bride. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia CLR
Known For
0.0
Self
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
2024
6.3
Chuck Akers
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
7.4
Self
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
7.8
Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
5.0
Sheriff Bob Conaway
Route 666
2001
6.3
Henry Ballard
The Jack Bull
1999
6.6
Three-Fingered Jack
The Mask of Zorro
1998
5.6
Frank
The Patriot
1998
6.8
Styles
The Edge
1997
6.0
In Cold Blood
1996
Credits
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
as Self
2024
0.0
A Prairie Home Companion
as Chuck Akers
2006
6.3
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
as Self
2005
7.4
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self
2004
7.8
Route 666
as Sheriff Bob Conaway
2001
5.0
The Jack Bull
as Henry Ballard
1999
6.3
The Mask of Zorro
as Three-Fingered Jack
1998
6.6
The Patriot
as Frank
1998
5.6
The Edge
as Styles
1997
6.8
In Cold Blood
1996
6.0
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
as Self
1996
7.0
Tornado!
as Ephram Thorne
1996
5.8
Casino
as Pat Webb
1995
8.0
Lightning Jack
as Sheriff
1994
5.6
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
1993
6.9
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Billy Selkirk
1993
6.9
Renegade
1992
6.7
Renegade
as Nathan Wayne
1992
6.7
The Legend Of Grizzly Adams
as Reno
1991
3.0
River of Death
as Hiller
1989
4.9
Bulletproof
as Sgt. O'Rourke
1988
4.9
The Yellow Rose
1983
6.0
Lone Wolf McQuade
as Dakota
1983
6.5
Sacred Ground
as Tolbert Coleman
1983
6.0
The A-Team
as Chuck Danford
1983
7.5
Voyagers!
1982
7.5
Matt Houston
1982
6.2
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
as Ben Potter
1982
5.3
The Beast Within
as Sheriff Pool
1982
5.4
The Fall Guy
as Sheriff Dwight LeClerc
1981
7.5
Riker
as Massey
1981
5.0
Enos
1980
7.0
Wild Times
as Wild Bill Hickock
1980
6.0
The Sacketts
as Belden
1979
7.5
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
as Floyd
1979
5.1
Vega$
1978
7.0
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
5.0
🎬
Colorado C.I.
as Hoyt Gunnison
1978
0.0
The Runaways
1978
5.0
Standing Tall
as Nate Rackley
1978
4.0
The Incredible Hulk
1977
7.3
CHiPs
as Hoskins
1977
6.8
Rafferty
1977
5.0
How the West Was Won
as Batlin
1977
6.9
Charlie's Angels
as Sgt. Billings
1976
6.7
Charlie's Angels
as Dan Jarvis
1976
6.7
Charlie's Angels
as Burdette
1976
6.7
Charlie's Angels
as Sam Mason
1976
6.7
Mother, Jugs & Speed
as Davey
1976
5.4
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
as Sheriff Tadlock
1976
0.0
Winterhawk
as Gates
1975
6.5
Matt Helm
1975
7.4
White Line Fever
as Buck Wessle
1975
6.0
A Boy and His Dog
as Porn Stud
1975
6.3
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Roy Ralstop
1975
5.0
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
as Sheriff Berlinger
1974
5.7
Movin' On
1974
6.4
Manhunter
as Charles 'Crutch' Shanks
1974
6.5
Mrs. Sundance
as Charles Siringo
1974
7.5
The Magician
as Johnson
1973
6.7
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Black Harris
1973
7.2
43: The Richard Petty Story
as Ed Koler
1972
6.5
Kung Fu
as Sgt. Straight
1972
7.7
Kung Fu
as Maj. Clarke Bealson
1972
7.7
Delphi Bureau
as Cole
1972
0.0
Assignment: Vienna
as Slim Warfield
1972
0.0
Fireball Forward
as Maj. Larkin
1972
5.0
The Bravos
as Ben Lawler
1972
5.7
Columbo
as Gun Dealer
1971
8.1
Cannon
1971
6.6
The Brotherhood of Satan
as Sheriff
1971
5.7
The Hunting Party
as Hog Warren
1971
6.1
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
The McMasters
as Russel
1970
4.2
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Taggart
1970
6.9
McCloud
1970
7.1
The Wild Bunch
as T.C
1969
7.6
Lancer
1968
4.7
Hawaii Five-O
as Col. Lew Cardell
1968
7.1
The Counterfeit Killer
as Hotel Clerk
1968
0.0
Hang 'em High
as Loomis
1968
6.8
Stay Away, Joe
as Bronc Hoverty
1968
5.3
Hondo
1967
6.5
Cimarron Strip
1967
5.5
Ironside
as Lt. Mark Cardiff
1967
6.8
Ironside
as Harry Ashton
1967
6.8
Noon Wine
as Deputy
1966
7.0
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
7.5
ABC Stage 67
as Deputy
1966
6.2
The F.B.I.
as Wesley Davis
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Al Tanner
1965
5.4
The Big Valley
as Cort
1965
6.1
The Big Valley
as Curtis
1965
6.1
The Big Valley
as Hutch
1965
6.1
The Big Valley
as Earl Vaughn
1965
6.1
The Big Valley
as Gus Vandiver
1965
6.1
Major Dundee
as Arthur Hadley
1965
6.6
Branded
1965
6.6
Apache Rifles
as Mike Greer
1964
5.7
The Devil's Bedroom
as (as Justus McQueen)
1964
6.0
Iron Angel
as Buttons
1964
6.0
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Ernie Packer
1963
5.7
Showdown
as Foray
1963
5.9
The Virginian
as Belden
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Andy
1962
6.4
Hell Is for Heroes
as Supply Sgt. Frazer
1962
6.5
Ride the High Country
as Sylvus Hammond
1962
7.0
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Flaming Star
as Tom Howard
1960
6.5
Cimarron
as Millis
1960
6.0
Ten Who Dared
as Billy Hawkins
1960
5.9
Route 66
1960
6.3
Hound-Dog Man
as Dave Wilson
1959
4.4
Battle of the Coral Sea
as Yeoman Halliday
1959
5.6
The Detectives
1959
6.1
The Rebel
as Otis Rumph
1959
4.7
The Rebel
as Roy Shandell
1959
4.7
Johnny Ringo
as Billy Boy Jethro
1959
5.7
Wichita Town
1959
4.2
Lock-Up
1959
6.2
Laramie
1959
6.6
Tightrope
as Earl Bell
1959
5.5
Warlock
as Fen Jiggs (uncredited)
1959
6.7
Black Saddle
as Jack Shepherd
1959
6.0
Rawhide
as George Cornelius
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Luke
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Pee Jay Peters
1959
7.2
Torpedo Run
as 'Hash' Benson
1958
6.0
Lawman
as Ollie Earnshaw
1958
5.6
The Naked and the Dead
as Woodrow Wilson
1958
5.8
Buchanan Rides Alone
as Pecos Hill
1958
6.5
🎬
Jefferson Drum
as Burdette
1958
4.5
The Young Lions
as Pvt. Donnelly (uncredited)
1958
6.8
Perry Mason
as Charles Barnaby
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Edward Lewis
1957
7.7
Wagon Train
as Lenny
1957
6.6
Wagon Train
as Squirrel Charvanaugh
1957
6.6
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Bill Renn - Cowboy
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Hector
1957
7.3
Gunsight Ridge
as Lazy Heart Ranch Hand
1957
5.7
Operation Mad Ball
as Ozark
1957
6.6
Men in War
as Sgt. Davis
1957
6.6
Love Me Tender
as Pardee Fleming (uncredited)
1956
6.1
Between Heaven and Hell
as Pvt. Kenny - Co. G
1956
6.0
Toward the Unknown
as 2nd Lt. Sweeney
1956
5.6
Santiago
as Digger
1956
5.2
Target Zero
as Pvt. Felix O'Hara
1955
5.3
Cheyenne
as Smitty Smith
1955
6.0
Gunsmoke
as Skinner
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Brady
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Wally
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Kittridge
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Nix
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Sumner Pendleton
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Gecko Ridley
1955
6.6
An Annapolis Story
as Watson
1955
3.3
Battle Cry
as Pvt. L.Q. Jones
1955
5.6
Lassie
1954
6.1
Annie Oakley
as Ned Blane
1954
5.2