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