Dickie Jones
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.
88 acting credits
Acting · 88
The Lone Ranger
1949
The Gene Autry Show
1950
Pinocchio
1940
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
The Outlaw
1943
The Range Rider
1951
Stella Dallas
1937
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950
Destry Rides Again
1939
Westward Ho
1935
Disney 100: Remember That
2023
The Howards of Virginia
1940
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
Attila
1954
Babes in Toyland
1934
Rocky Mountain
1950
Virginia City
1940
Black Legion
1937
The Frontiersmen
1938
On Borrowed Time
1939
Brigham Young
1940
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
Sky Patrol
1939
The Wild Dakotas
1956
Land Beyond the Law
1937
Fort Worth
1951
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
Knute Rockne All American
1940
Love Is on the Air
1937
Flying Fists
1937
Sons of New Mexico
1949
Sergeant Madden
1939
Daniel Boone
1936
The Devil's Party
1938
Maryland
1940
The Pigskin Palooka
1937
Gasoloons
1936
The Bamboo Prison
1954
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
2009
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
Our Gang Follies of 1936
1935
Ready, Willing and Able
1937
A Man to Remember
1938
The Old West
1952
Blake of Scotland Yard
1937
Musical Movieland
1944
Hollywood Round-Up
1937
The Vanishing Virginian
1942
36 Hours to Kill
1936
Little Men
1934
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938
Sutter's Gold
1936
Requiem for a Gunfighter
1965
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
1937
Mountain Rhythm
1943
Savage Fury
1956
Moonlight on the Prairie
1935
The Kid Comes Back
1938
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935
Blake of Scotland Yard
1937
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936
Woman Doctor
1939
Girls on Probation
1938
The Hawk
1935
The Strawberry Roan
1948
Love Begins at Twenty
1936
Redwood Forest Trail
1950
Border Wolves
1938
The Night Rider
1962
Adventure in Washington
1941
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
1993
Who's Looney Now
1936
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
1989
Land of Fighting Men
1938
The Call of the Savage
1935
Wagon Team
1952
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
1950
The Devil's Bedroom
1964
Queen of the Jungle
1935
Shadow of the Boomerang
1961
The Cool and the Crazy
1958
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
2000
Last of the Pony Riders
1953
Smoke Tree Range
1937
The Man Who Dared
1939
Wild Horse Round-Up
1936
This My Son
1954