Dickie Jones
Acting • Born 1927-02-25 – Died 2014-07-07
Biography
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.
Filmography
88 credits
Mountain Rhythm
Movie • 1943
Darwood Gates Alton
Land of Fighting Men
Movie • 1938
Jimmy Mitchell
Pinocchio
Movie • 1940
Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
Little Men
Movie • 1934
Dolly
Stella Dallas
Movie • 1937
Lee Morrison
Queen of the Jungle
Movie • 1935
David Worth as a child
Rocky Mountain
Movie • 1950
Jim 'Buck' Wheat
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Movie • 1979
Self
The Pigskin Palooka
Movie • 1937
Spike
The Hawk
Movie • 1935
Dickie Thomas
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Movie • 1937
Tommy MacDonald
Last of the Pony Riders
Movie • 1953
Johnny Blair
Attila
Movie • 1954
The Wild Dakotas
Movie • 1956
Mike McGeehee
Who's Looney Now
Movie • 1936
Sonny Brown
Blake of Scotland Yard
Movie • 1937
Bobby Mason
A Man to Remember
Movie • 1938
Dick Abbott (as a boy)
Daniel Boone
Movie • 1936
Master Jerry Randolph
Shadow of the Boomerang
Movie • 1961
Bob Prince
Adventure in Washington
Movie • 1941
Abbott
The Howards of Virginia
Movie • 1940
Matt Howard at 12
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie • 1939
Richard Jones (uncredited)
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Movie • 1938
Buddy
Hollywood Round-Up
Movie • 1937
Dickie Stevens
Flying Fists
Movie • 1937
Dickie Martin
Blake of Scotland Yard
Movie • 1937
Bobby Mason
The Night Rider
Movie • 1962
Billy Joe
The Strawberry Roan
Movie • 1948
Joe Bailey
The Man Who Dared
Movie • 1939
Bill Carter
Ready, Willing and Able
Movie • 1937
Junior
Sutter's Gold
Movie • 1936
2nd Newsboy
36 Hours to Kill
Movie • 1936
Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
Movie • 1989
Self
Love Is on the Air
Movie • 1937
Bill - Mouse's Friend
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
Movie • 2009
Himself
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
Movie • 1993
Self
The Outlaw
Movie • 1943
Boy (uncredited)
Girls on Probation
Movie • 1938
Magazine Newsboy
Virginia City
Movie • 1940
Cobby
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Movie • 1939
Killer Parkins
Young Mr. Lincoln
Movie • 1939
Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
On Borrowed Time
Movie • 1939
Boy in Tree (uncredited)
Gasoloons
Movie • 1936
Wilbur
The Call of the Savage
Movie • 1935
Jan Trevor as a Boy
Destry Rides Again
Movie • 1939
Claggett Boy
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Movie • 1935
Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
Sergeant Madden
Movie • 1939
Dennis Madden, as a boy
Sky Patrol
Movie • 1939
Bobby Landis
Smoke Tree Range
Movie • 1937
Teddy Page
Wild Horse Round-Up
Movie • 1936
Dickie Williams
Sons of New Mexico
Movie • 1949
Randy Pryor
Westward Ho
Movie • 1935
Jim Wyatt as a Child
The Old West
Movie • 1952
Pinto
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Movie • 1936
Jimmy McLaw
Babes in Toyland
Movie • 1934
Schoolboy (uncredited)
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
Movie • 2000
Himself
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
Movie • 1950
Richard Reilly (uncredited)
Moonlight on the Prairie
Movie • 1935
Dickie Roberts
Brigham Young
Movie • 1940
Henry Kent
The Frontiersmen
Movie • 1938
Artie Peters
Fort Worth
Movie • 1951
Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)
Love Begins at Twenty
Movie • 1936
Boy on Streetcar
Requiem for a Gunfighter
Movie • 1965
Cliff Fletcher
Land Beyond the Law
Movie • 1937
Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
Movie • 1940
Boy Captain (uncredited)
Maryland
Movie • 1940
Lee Danfield, Age 12
Sands of Iwo Jima
Movie • 1950
Scared Marine (uncredited)
Redwood Forest Trail
Movie • 1950
Mighty Mite
Wagon Team
Movie • 1952
Dave Weldon
Woman Doctor
Movie • 1939
Johnny
The Kid Comes Back
Movie • 1938
Bobby Doyle
The Vanishing Virginian
Movie • 1942
Robert Yancey, Jr.
The Devil's Party
Movie • 1938
Young Joe
Border Wolves
Movie • 1938
Jimmie Benton
The Devil's Bedroom
Movie • 1964
Norm
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Movie • 1944
Young Samuel Clemens
Black Legion
Movie • 1937
Buddy Taylor
The Bamboo Prison
Movie • 1954
Jackie
The Cool and the Crazy
Movie • 1958
Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
Musical Movieland
Movie • 1944
Tourist (uncredited)
Our Gang Follies of 1936
Movie • 1935
Dickie
Savage Fury
Movie • 1956
Jan Trevor, as a boy
This My Son
Movie • 1954
Steve Caldwell
Disney 100: Remember That
Movie • 2023
Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
The Lone Ranger
TV • 1949
Jim Douglas
The Range Rider
TV • 1951
The Gene Autry Show
TV • 1950
Buffalo Bill Jr.
TV • 1955
Buffalo Bill Jr.