L.Q. Jones
L. Q. Jones (born August 19, 1927, died July 9th 2022) was an American character actor and film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah. Jones was born in Beaumont in southeastern Texas, the son of Jessie Paralee (née Stephens) and Justus Ellis McQueen Sr., a railroad worker. After serving in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946, Jones attended Lamar Junior College (now Lamar University) and then studied law at the University of Texas at Austin from 1950 to 1951. He worked as a stand-up comic, briefly played professional baseball and football, and even tried ranching in Nicaragua before turning to acting after corresponding with his former college roommate, Fess Parker. At the time, in 1954, Parker was already in Hollywood working in films and on television. Jones is a practicing Methodist and a registered Republican. Jones made his film debut in 1955 in Battle Cry, credited under his birth name Justus McQueen. His character's name in that film, however, was "L. Q. Jones", a name he liked and decided to adopt as his stage name for all of his future roles as an actor. In 1955, he was cast as "Smitty Smith" in three episodes of Clint Walker's ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Cheyenne, the first hour-long western on network television. Jones appeared in numerous films in the 1960s and 1970s. He became a member of Sam Peckinpah's stock company of actors, appearing in his Klondike series (1960–1961), Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (1973). Jones was frequently cast alongside his close friend Strother Martin, most memorably as the posse member and bounty hunter "T. C." in The Wild Bunch. Jones also appeared as recurring characters on such western series as Cheyenne (1955), Gunsmoke (1955), Laramie, Two Faces West (1960–1961), and as ranch hand Andy Belden in The Virginian (1962). That same year (1962) Jones appeared as Ollie Earnshaw, a rich rancher looking for a bride on Lawman in the episode titled "The Bride. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia CLR
137 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 137
Columbo
1971
Perry Mason
1957
Ironside
1967
The A-Team
1983
Charlie's Angels
1976
Lassie
1954
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Wagon Train
1957
The Virginian
1962
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Renegade
1992
Cannon
1971
Cheyenne
1955
Ben Casey
1961
The F.B.I.
1965
The Incredible Hulk
1977
Route 66
1960
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
The Big Valley
1965
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Lawman
1958
Rawhide
1959
CHiPs
1977
The Fall Guy
1981
Matt Houston
1982
McCloud
1970
Gunsmoke
1955
Vega$
1978
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Rebel
1959
Lancer
1968
The Detectives
1959
Black Saddle
1959
Laramie
1959
Branded
1965
How the West Was Won
1977
Casino
1995
ABC Stage 67
1966
Lock-Up
1959
Annie Oakley
1954
The Magician
1973
Johnny Ringo
1959
Tightrope
1959
Cimarron Strip
1967
Voyagers!
1982
The Mask of Zorro
1998
Matt Helm
1975
Hondo
1967
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
The Edge
1997
Hang 'em High
1968
Movin' On
1974
Wichita Town
1959
The Yellow Rose
1983
Enos
1980
Route 666
2001
The Wild Bunch
1969
Rafferty
1977
The Sacketts
1979
The Runaways
1978
In Cold Blood
1996
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
Wild Times
1980
Lone Wolf McQuade
1983
Delphi Bureau
1972
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
Warlock
1959
Cimarron
1960
Assignment: Vienna
1972
Jefferson Drum
1958
On Trial
1956
A Boy and His Dog
1975
Major Dundee
1965
Riker
1981
Ride the High Country
1962
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
The Jack Bull
1999
The Patriot
1998
The Naked and the Dead
1958
Flaming Star
1960
The Hunting Party
1971
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
Love Me Tender
1956
The Young Lions
1958
Kung Fu
1972
Battle Cry
1955
Buchanan Rides Alone
1958
Tornado!
1996
Hell Is for Heroes
1962
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
Lightning Jack
1994
The Beast Within
1982
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Santiago
1956
Apache Rifles
1964
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982
Stay Away, Joe
1968
White Line Fever
1975
Standing Tall
1978
The McMasters
1970
Operation Mad Ball
1957
Men in War
1957
Bulletproof
1988
River of Death
1989
Gunsight Ridge
1957
The Bravos
1972
Torpedo Run
1958
Between Heaven and Hell
1956
Manhunter
1974
Sacred Ground
1983
The Counterfeit Killer
1968
Winterhawk
1975
The Brotherhood of Satan
1971
Toward the Unknown
1956
Hound-Dog Man
1959
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
Fireball Forward
1972
Showdown
1963
Iron Angel
1964
Mrs. Sundance
1974
Noon Wine
1966
Ten Who Dared
1960
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
2024
An Annapolis Story
1955
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
1979
Target Zero
1955
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
1976
Battle of the Coral Sea
1959
Colorado C.I.
1978
43: The Richard Petty Story
1972
The Devil's Bedroom
1964
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
The Legend Of Grizzly Adams
1991