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.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Richard Jones (uncredited)
Age 12 (now 87)
The Cool and the Crazy
as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
Age 31 (now 87)
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
Age 96 (now 87)
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
as Self
Age 82 (now 87)
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
as Himself
Age 73 (now 87)
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
as Self
Age 66 (now 87)
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
as Self
Age 62 (now 87)
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
Age 52 (now 87)
The Cool and the Crazy
as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
Age 31 (now 87)
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
as Richard Reilly (uncredited)
Age 23 (now 87)
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Young Samuel Clemens
Age 17 (now 87)
Knute Rockne All American
as Boy Captain (uncredited)
Age 13 (now 87)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Richard Jones (uncredited)
Age 12 (now 87)
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Buddy
Age 11 (now 87)
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
as Tommy MacDonald
Age 10 (now 87)
36 Hours to Kill
as Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
Age 9 (now 87)
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
as Jimmy McLaw
Age 8 (now 87)
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Also Known As
Richard Percy Jones, Dick Jones, Dicky Jones
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