Dickie Jones
Acting
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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movieDisney 100: Remember That
2023
Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
movieRequiem for a Gunfighter
1965
Cliff Fletcher
movieThe Night Rider
1962
Billy Joe
movieShadow of the Boomerang
1961
Bob Prince
movieThe Cool and the Crazy
1958
Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
movieThe Wild Dakotas
1956
Mike McGeehee
movieSavage Fury
1956
Jan Trevor, as a boy
tvBuffalo Bill Jr.
1955
Buffalo Bill Jr.
This My Son
1954
Steve Caldwell
movieLast of the Pony Riders
1953
Johnny Blair
movieWagon Team
1952
Dave Weldon
movieFort Worth
1951
Luther Wicks
tvThe Range Rider
1951
Dick West
movieRocky Mountain
1950
Jim 'Buck' Wheat
movieRedwood Forest Trail
1950
Mighty Mite
movieMilitary Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
1950
Richard Reilly (uncredited)
movieSands of Iwo Jima
1950
Scared Marine (uncredited)
movieSons of New Mexico
1949
Randy Pryor
tvThe Lone Ranger
1949
Jim Douglas
movieThe Strawberry Roan
1948
Joe Bailey
movieMusical Movieland
1944
Tourist (uncredited)
movieThe Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
Young Samuel Clemens
movieThe Outlaw
1943
Boy (uncredited)
movieMountain Rhythm
1943
Darwood Gates Alton
movieThe Vanishing Virginian
1942
Robert Yancey, Jr.
movieKnute Rockne All American
1940
Boy Captain (uncredited)
movieBrigham Young
1940
Henry Kent
movieThe Howards of Virginia
1940
Matt Howard at 12
movieMaryland
1940
Lee Danfield, Age 12
moviePinocchio
1940
Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
movieDestry Rides Again
1939
Claggett Boy
movieMr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Richard Jones (uncredited)
movieSky Patrol
1939
Bobby Landis
movieOn Borrowed Time
1939
Boy in Tree (uncredited)
movieYoung Mr. Lincoln
1939
Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
movieThe Man Who Dared
1939
Bill Carter
movieSergeant Madden
1939
Dennis Madden, as a boy
movieNancy Drew... Reporter
1939
Killer Parkins
movieWoman Doctor
1939
Johnny
movieThe Frontiersmen
1938
Artie Peters
movieLand of Fighting Men
1938
Jimmy Mitchell
movieGirls on Probation
1938
Magazine Newsboy
movieA Man to Remember
1938
Dick Abbott (as a boy)
movieThe Devil's Party
1938
Young Joe
movieBorder Wolves
1938
Jimmie Benton
movieThe Kid Comes Back
1938
Bobby Doyle
movieHollywood Round-Up
1937
Dickie Stevens
movieLove Is on the Air
1937
Bill - Mouse's Friend
movieRenfrew of the Royal Mounted
1937
Tommy MacDonald
movieStella Dallas
1937
Lee Morrison
movieFlying Fists
1937
Dickie Martin
movieSmoke Tree Range
1937
Teddy Page
movieLand Beyond the Law
1937
Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
movieBlake of Scotland Yard
1937
Bobby Mason
movieBlake of Scotland Yard
1937
Bobby Mason
movieBlack Legion
1937
Buddy Taylor
movieWild Horse Round-Up
1936
Dickie Williams
movieDaniel Boone
1936
Master Jerry Randolph
movieWho's Looney Now
1936
Sonny Brown
movieLove Begins at Twenty
1936
Boy on Streetcar
movie36 Hours to Kill
1936
Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
movieSutter's Gold
1936
2nd Newsboy
movieThe Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936
Jimmy McLaw
movieMoonlight on the Prairie
1935
Dickie Roberts
movieO'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935
Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
movieWestward Ho
1935
Jim Wyatt as a Child
movieThe Hawk
1935
Dickie Thomas
movieThe Call of the Savage
1935
Jan Trevor as a Boy
movieQueen of the Jungle
1935
David Worth as a child
movieBabes in Toyland
1934
Schoolboy (uncredited)
movieLittle Men
1934
Dolly