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.
Known For
Darwood Gates Alton
Mountain Rhythm
Jimmy Mitchell
Land of Fighting Men
Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
Pinocchio
Dolly
Little Men
Lee Morrison
Stella Dallas
David Worth as a child
Queen of the Jungle
Jim 'Buck' Wheat
Rocky Mountain
Self
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Spike
The Pigskin Palooka
Dickie Thomas
The Hawk
Tommy MacDonald
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Johnny Blair
Last of the Pony Riders
Attila
Mike McGeehee
The Wild Dakotas
Sonny Brown
Who's Looney Now
Bobby Mason
Blake of Scotland Yard
Dick Abbott (as a boy)
A Man to Remember
Master Jerry Randolph
Daniel Boone
Bob Prince
Shadow of the Boomerang
Dickie Stevens
Hollywood Round-Up
Dickie Martin
Flying Fists
Buddy
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Bobby Mason
Blake of Scotland Yard
Abbott
Adventure in Washington
Matt Howard at 12
The Howards of Virginia
Richard Jones (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Billy Joe
The Night Rider
Joe Bailey
The Strawberry Roan
Bill Carter
The Man Who Dared
Junior
Ready, Willing and Able
2nd Newsboy
Sutter's Gold
Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
36 Hours to Kill
Self
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
Bill - Mouse's Friend
Love Is on the Air
Himself
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
Self
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
Boy (uncredited)
The Outlaw
Magazine Newsboy
Girls on Probation
Cobby
Virginia City
Killer Parkins
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
Young Mr. Lincoln
Boy in Tree (uncredited)
On Borrowed Time
Wilbur
Gasoloons
Jan Trevor as a Boy
The Call of the Savage
Claggett Boy
Destry Rides Again
Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Dennis Madden, as a boy
Sergeant Madden
Bobby Landis
Sky Patrol
Teddy Page
Smoke Tree Range
Dickie Williams
Wild Horse Round-Up
Randy Pryor
Sons of New Mexico
Jim Wyatt as a Child
Westward Ho
Pinto
The Old West
Jimmy McLaw
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Babes in Toyland
Himself
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
Richard Reilly (uncredited)
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
Dickie Roberts
Moonlight on the Prairie
Henry Kent
Brigham Young
Artie Peters
The Frontiersmen
Luther Wicks (as Dick Jones)
Fort Worth
Boy on Streetcar
Love Begins at Twenty
Cliff Fletcher
Requiem for a Gunfighter
Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
Land Beyond the Law
Boy Captain (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
Lee Danfield, Age 12
Maryland
Scared Marine (uncredited)
Sands of Iwo Jima
Mighty Mite
Redwood Forest Trail
Dave Weldon, aka The Apache Kid (as Dick Jones)
Wagon Team
Johnny
Woman Doctor
Bobby Doyle
The Kid Comes Back
Robert Yancey, Jr.
The Vanishing Virginian
Young Joe
The Devil's Party
Jimmie Benton
Border Wolves
Norm
The Devil's Bedroom
Young Samuel Clemens
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Buddy Taylor
Black Legion
Jackie
The Bamboo Prison
Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
The Cool and the Crazy
Tourist (uncredited)
Musical Movieland
Dickie
Our Gang Follies of 1936
Jan Trevor, as a boy
Savage Fury
Steve Caldwell
This My Son
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
83
Gender
Male
Birthday
1927-02-25
Place of Birth
Snyder, Texas, USA
Also Known As
Richard Percy Jones