Dickie Jones
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.
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Films (85)
Disney 100: Remember That
2023 · Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
2009 · Self
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
2000 · Himself
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
1993 · Self
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
1989 · Self
Walt Disney's Wet and Wild
1986 · Pinocchio (voice)
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979 · Self
Requiem for a Gunfighter
1965 · Cliff Fletcher
The Devil's Bedroom
1964 · Norm
The Night Rider
1962 · Billy Joe
Shadow of the Boomerang
1961 · Bob Prince
The Cool and the Crazy
1958 · Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
The Wild Dakotas
1956 · Mike McGeehee
Savage Fury
1956 · Jan Trevor, as a boy
Attila
1954
This My Son
1954 · Steve Caldwell
The Bamboo Prison
1954 · Jackie
Last of the Pony Riders
1953 · Johnny Blair
The Old West
1952 · Pinto
Wagon Team
1952 · Dave Weldon
Fort Worth
1951 · Luther Wicks
Rocky Mountain
1950 · Jim 'Buck' Wheat
Redwood Forest Trail
1950 · Mighty Mite
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
1950 · Richard Reilly (uncredited)
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950 · Scared Marine (uncredited)
Sons of New Mexico
1949 · Randy Pryor
The Strawberry Roan
1948 · Joe Bailey
Musical Movieland
1944 · Tourist (uncredited)
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944 · Young Samuel Clemens
The Outlaw
1943 · Boy (uncredited)
Mountain Rhythm
1943 · Darwood Gates Alton
The Vanishing Virginian
1942 · Robert Yancey, Jr.
Adventure in Washington
1941 · Abbott
Knute Rockne All American
1940 · Boy Captain (uncredited)
Brigham Young
1940 · Henry Kent
The Howards of Virginia
1940 · Matt Howard at 12
Maryland
1940 · Lee Danfield, Age 12
Virginia City
1940 · Cobby
Pinocchio
1940 · Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
Destry Rides Again
1939 · Claggett Boy
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Richard Jones (uncredited)
Sky Patrol
1939 · Bobby Landis
On Borrowed Time
1939 · Boy in Tree (uncredited)
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939 · Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
The Man Who Dared
1939 · Bill Carter
Sergeant Madden
1939 · Dennis Madden, as a boy
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939 · Killer Parkins
Woman Doctor
1939 · Johnny
The Frontiersmen
1938 · Artie Peters
Land of Fighting Men
1938 · Jimmy Mitchell
Girls on Probation
1938 · Magazine Newsboy
A Man to Remember
1938 · Dick Abbott (as a boy)
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938 · Buddy
The Devil's Party
1938 · Young Joe
Border Wolves
1938 · Jimmie Benton
The Kid Comes Back
1938 · Bobby Doyle
Hollywood Round-Up
1937 · Dickie Stevens
The Pigskin Palooka
1937 · Spike
Love Is on the Air
1937 · Bill - Mouse's Friend
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
1937 · Tommy MacDonald
Stella Dallas
1937 · Lee Morrison
Flying Fists
1937 · Dickie Martin
Smoke Tree Range
1937 · Teddy Page
Land Beyond the Law
1937 · Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
Ready, Willing and Able
1937 · Junior
Blake of Scotland Yard
1937 · Bobby Mason
Blake of Scotland Yard
1937 · Bobby Mason
Black Legion
1937 · Buddy Taylor
Wild Horse Round-Up
1936 · Dickie Williams
Daniel Boone
1936 · Master Jerry Randolph
Who's Looney Now
1936 · Sonny Brown
Love Begins at Twenty
1936 · Boy on Streetcar
36 Hours to Kill
1936 · Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
Sutter's Gold
1936 · 2nd Newsboy
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936 · Jimmy McLaw
Gasoloons
1936 · Wilbur
Our Gang Follies of 1936
1935 · Dickie
Moonlight on the Prairie
1935 · Dickie Roberts
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935 · Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
Westward Ho
1935 · Jim Wyatt as a Child
The Hawk
1935 · Dickie Thomas
The Call of the Savage
1935 · Jan Trevor as a Boy
Queen of the Jungle
1935 · David Worth as a child
Babes in Toyland
1934 · Schoolboy (uncredited)
Little Men
1934 · Dolly
