Dickie Jones
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 25, 1927
- Died
- July 7, 2014
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Disney 100: Remember That 2023
as Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached 2009
as Self
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio' 2000
as Himself
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece 1993
as Self
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story 1989
as Self
Walt Disney's Wet and Wild 1986
as Pinocchio (voice)
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion 1979
as Self
Requiem for a Gunfighter 1965
as Cliff Fletcher
The Devil's Bedroom 1964
as Norm
The Night Rider 1962
as Billy Joe
Shadow of the Boomerang 1961
as Bob Prince
The Cool and the Crazy 1958
as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
The Wild Dakotas 1956
as Mike McGeehee
Savage Fury 1956
as Jan Trevor, as a boy
Attila 1954
Actor
- This My Son
This My Son 1954
as Steve Caldwell
The Bamboo Prison 1954
as Jackie
Last of the Pony Riders 1953
as Johnny Blair
Wagon Team 1952
as Dave Weldon
The Old West 1952
as Pinto
Fort Worth 1951
as Luther Wicks
Rocky Mountain 1950
as Jim 'Buck' Wheat
Redwood Forest Trail 1950
as Mighty Mite
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang 1950
as Richard Reilly (uncredited)
Sands of Iwo Jima 1950
as Scared Marine (uncredited)
Sons of New Mexico 1949
as Randy Pryor
The Strawberry Roan 1948
as Joe Bailey
Musical Movieland 1944
as Tourist (uncredited)
The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944
as Young Samuel Clemens
The Outlaw 1943
as Boy (uncredited)
Mountain Rhythm 1943
as Darwood Gates Alton
The Vanishing Virginian 1942
as Robert Yancey, Jr.
Adventure in Washington 1941
as Abbott
Knute Rockne All American 1940
as Boy Captain (uncredited)
Brigham Young 1940
as Henry Kent
The Howards of Virginia 1940
as Matt Howard at 12
Maryland 1940
as Lee Danfield, Age 12
Virginia City 1940
as Cobby
Pinocchio 1940
as Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
Destry Rides Again 1939
as Claggett Boy
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
as Richard Jones (uncredited)
Sky Patrol 1939
as Bobby Landis
On Borrowed Time 1939
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
Young Mr. Lincoln 1939
as Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
The Man Who Dared 1939
as Bill Carter
Sergeant Madden 1939
as Dennis Madden, as a boy
Nancy Drew... Reporter 1939
as Killer Parkins
Woman Doctor 1939
as Johnny
The Frontiersmen 1938
as Artie Peters
Land of Fighting Men 1938
as Jimmy Mitchell
Girls on Probation 1938
as Magazine Newsboy
A Man to Remember 1938
as Dick Abbott (as a boy)
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok 1938
as Buddy
The Devil's Party 1938
as Young Joe
Border Wolves 1938
as Jimmie Benton
The Kid Comes Back 1938
as Bobby Doyle
Hollywood Round-Up 1937
as Dickie Stevens
The Pigskin Palooka 1937
as Spike
Love Is on the Air 1937
as Bill - Mouse's Friend
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted 1937
as Tommy MacDonald
Stella Dallas 1937
as Lee Morrison
Flying Fists 1937
as Dickie Martin
Smoke Tree Range 1937
as Teddy Page
Land Beyond the Law 1937
as Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
Ready, Willing and Able 1937
as Junior
Black Legion 1937
as Buddy Taylor
Blake of Scotland Yard 1937
as Bobby Mason
Blake of Scotland Yard 1937
as Bobby Mason
Wild Horse Round-Up 1936
as Dickie Williams
Daniel Boone 1936
as Master Jerry Randolph
Who's Looney Now 1936
as Sonny Brown
Love Begins at Twenty 1936
as Boy on Streetcar
36 Hours to Kill 1936
as Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
Sutter's Gold 1936
as 2nd Newsboy
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell 1936
as Jimmy McLaw
- Gasoloons
Gasoloons 1936
as Wilbur
Our Gang Follies of 1936 1935
as Dickie
Moonlight on the Prairie 1935
as Dickie Roberts
O'Shaughnessy's Boy 1935
as Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
Westward Ho 1935
as Jim Wyatt as a Child
The Hawk 1935
as Dickie Thomas
The Call of the Savage 1935
as Jan Trevor as a Boy
Queen of the Jungle 1935
as David Worth as a child
Babes in Toyland 1934
as Schoolboy (uncredited)
Little Men 1934
as Dolly
Credits from TMDB.