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.
84 movies · 3 shows
Disney 100: Remember That
2023·10.0
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
2009·0.0
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
2000·8.0
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
1993·2.0
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
1989·0.0
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979·0.0
Requiem for a Gunfighter
1965·7.5
The Devil's Bedroom
1964·7.5
The Night Rider
1962·8.0
Shadow of the Boomerang
1961·8.0
The Cool and the Crazy
1958·5.8
The Wild Dakotas
1956·9.0
Savage Fury
1956·7.0
Attila
1954·5.4
This My Son
1954·0.0
The Bamboo Prison
1954·6.4
Last of the Pony Riders
1953·6.5
The Old West
1952·7.0
Wagon Team
1952·6.3
Fort Worth
1951·7.1
Rocky Mountain
1950·5.8
Redwood Forest Trail
1950·7.0
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
1950·6.5
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950·6.4
Sons of New Mexico
1949·6.5
The Strawberry Roan
1948·6.5
Musical Movieland
1944·6.7
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944·7.0
The Outlaw
1943·5.4
Mountain Rhythm
1943·8.0
The Vanishing Virginian
1942·7.3
Adventure in Washington
1941·7.0
Knute Rockne All American
1940·6.2
Brigham Young
1940·4.6
The Howards of Virginia
1940·6.8
Maryland
1940·6.5
Virginia City
1940·6.3
Pinocchio
1940·7.1
Destry Rides Again
1939·7.2
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939·7.8
Sky Patrol
1939·5.5
On Borrowed Time
1939·7.6
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939·7.2
The Man Who Dared
1939·7.0
Sergeant Madden
1939·7.5
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939·6.0
Woman Doctor
1939·3.3
The Frontiersmen
1938·5.8
Land of Fighting Men
1938·7.0
Girls on Probation
1938·6.2
A Man to Remember
1938·6.7
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938·9.0
The Devil's Party
1938·5.4
Border Wolves
1938·8.0
The Kid Comes Back
1938·6.5
Hollywood Round-Up
1937·5.3
The Pigskin Palooka
1937·6.6
Love Is on the Air
1937·6.3
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
1937·4.6
Stella Dallas
1937·6.8
Flying Fists
1937·6.0
Smoke Tree Range
1937·7.0
Land Beyond the Law
1937·8.5
Ready, Willing and Able
1937·5.4
Blake of Scotland Yard
1937·4.0
Blake of Scotland Yard
1937·3.7
Black Legion
1937·6.6
Wild Horse Round-Up
1936·10.0
Daniel Boone
1936·4.9
Who's Looney Now
1936·8.0
Love Begins at Twenty
1936·6.3
36 Hours to Kill
1936·6.1
Sutter's Gold
1936·7.0
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936·5.7
Gasoloons
1936·7.5
Our Gang Follies of 1936
1935·6.9
Moonlight on the Prairie
1935·6.8
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935·6.2
Westward Ho
1935·5.4
The Hawk
1935·6.0
The Call of the Savage
1935·6.0
Queen of the Jungle
1935·7.0
Babes in Toyland
1934·6.3
Little Men
1934·5.7