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