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