L.Q. Jones

Biography

L. Q. Jones (born August 19, 1927, died July 9th 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

Known For

T.C

The Wild Bunch

Porn Stud

A Boy and His Dog

Loomis

Hang 'em High

Taggart

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Ben Potter

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

Supply Sgt. Frazer

Hell Is for Heroes

Chuck Akers

A Prairie Home Companion

Three-Fingered Jack

The Mask of Zorro

Sylvus Hammond

Ride the High Country

Buck Wessle

White Line Fever

Sheriff

The Brotherhood of Satan

Ephram Thorne

Tornado!

Pecos Hill

Buchanan Rides Alone

Sgt. Davis

Men in War

Hog Warren

The Hunting Party

Henry Ballard

The Jack Bull

Hiller

River of Death

Millis

Cimarron

Yeoman Halliday

Battle of the Coral Sea

Bronc Hoverty

Stay Away, Joe

'Hash' Benson

Torpedo Run

Pvt. L.Q. Jones

Battle Cry

Reno

The Legend Of Grizzly Adams

Sheriff Bob Conaway

Route 666

Russel

The McMasters

Charles 'Crutch' Shanks

Manhunter

Self

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

Gates

Winterhawk

Pvt. Felix O'Hara

Target Zero

Tolbert Coleman

Sacred Ground

Digger

Santiago

Ben Lawler

The Bravos

Billy Hawkins

Ten Who Dared

Self

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Fen Jiggs (uncredited)

Warlock

Watson

An Annapolis Story

Dakota

Lone Wolf McQuade

Hotel Clerk

The Counterfeit Killer

Pat Webb

Casino

Styles

The Edge

Sheriff Pool

The Beast Within

Sgt. O'Rourke

Bulletproof

2nd Lt. Sweeney

Toward the Unknown

Self

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

Sheriff Berlinger

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence

Nate Rackley

Standing Tall

Black Harris

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Tom Howard

Flaming Star

Davey

Mother, Jugs & Speed

Floyd

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

Sheriff

Lightning Jack

Lazy Heart Ranch Hand

Gunsight Ridge

Pvt. Donnelly (uncredited)

The Young Lions

Ed Koler

43: The Richard Petty Story

Mike Greer

Apache Rifles

Self

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

Pardee Fleming (uncredited)

Love Me Tender

Roy Ralstop

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Woodrow Wilson

The Naked and the Dead

Frank

The Patriot

Foray

Showdown

Pvt. Kenny - Co. G

Between Heaven and Hell

Dave Wilson

Hound-Dog Man

Deputy

Noon Wine

Buttons

Iron Angel

Arthur Hadley

Major Dundee

Charles Siringo

Mrs. Sundance

Ozark

Operation Mad Ball

Maj. Larkin

Fireball Forward

Self

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

(as Justus McQueen)

The Devil's Bedroom

Hoyt Gunnison

Colorado C.I.

Sheriff Tadlock

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free