Acting
L.Q. Jones
Biography
L. Q. Jones (August 19, 1927 – July 9, 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
Movies with L.Q. Jones
Casino
1995
The Mask of Zorro
1998
Hang 'em High
1968
The Wild Bunch
1969
The Edge
1997
Lone Wolf McQuade
1983
Warlock
1959
A Boy and His Dog
1975
Ride the High Country
1962
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
Lightning Jack
1994
The Young Lions
1958
The Jack Bull
1999
Major Dundee
1965
Route 666
2001
Battle Cry
1955
The Patriot
1998
The Beast Within
1982
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
Love Me Tender
1956
Cimarron
1960
Men in War
1957
Manhunter
1974
Stay Away, Joe
1968
River of Death
1989
The Hunting Party
1971
Flaming Star
1960
Standing Tall
1978
Santiago
1956
Hell Is for Heroes
1962
Hound-Dog Man
1959
The Naked and the Dead
1958
Apache Rifles
1964
Operation Mad Ball
1957
Bulletproof
1988
Torpedo Run
1958
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
2024
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976
White Line Fever
1975
Ten Who Dared
1960
Between Heaven and Hell
1956
Buchanan Rides Alone
1958
Gunsight Ridge
1957
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
1976
The McMasters
1970
The Bravos
1972
Battle of the Coral Sea
1959
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Toward the Unknown
1956
The Counterfeit Killer
1968
An Annapolis Story
1955
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982
Colorado C.I.
1978
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
Winterhawk
1975
Iron Angel
1964
The Legend Of Grizzly Adams
1991
Tornado!
1996
Showdown
1963
Target Zero
1955
Fireball Forward
1972
Sacred Ground
1983
Mrs. Sundance
1974
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
The Brotherhood of Satan
1971
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
Noon Wine
1966
The Devil's Bedroom
1964
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
1979
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
43: The Richard Petty Story
1972
TV Shows with L.Q. Jones
Columbo
1971
Perry Mason
1957
Wagon Train
1957
The A-Team
1983
Ironside
1967
Lassie
1954
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Charlie's Angels
1976
Cannon
1971
The Rebel
1959
Rawhide
1959
Cheyenne
1955
The Virginian
1962
Ben Casey
1961
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Renegade
1992
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
Lawman
1958
Laramie
1959
The Fall Guy
1981
The Incredible Hulk
1977
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Big Valley
1965
The F.B.I.
1965
Lock-Up
1959
Gunsmoke
1955
McCloud
1970
Route 66
1960
Johnny Ringo
1959
Vega$
1978
Branded
1965
Matt Houston
1982
Lancer
1968
The Detectives
1959
CHiPs
1977
Black Saddle
1959
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Voyagers!
1982
On Trial
1956
How the West Was Won
1977
Annie Oakley
1954
Matt Helm
1975
Movin' On
1974
Wichita Town
1959
Enos
1980
Tightrope
1959
Cimarron Strip
1967
The Magician
1973
Hondo
1967
ABC Stage 67
1966
The Yellow Rose
1983
The Sacketts
1979
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
Jefferson Drum
1958
In Cold Blood
1996
Rafferty
1977
Delphi Bureau
1972
The Runaways
1978
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
Wild Times
1980
Kung Fu
1972
Assignment: Vienna
1972
Riker
1981