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
The Lone Ranger
1949
Pinocchio
1940
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
The Range Rider
1951
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
Babes in Toyland
1934
The Outlaw
1943
Destry Rides Again
1939
Disney 100: Remember That
2023
Knute Rockne All American
1940
Filmography
The Lone Ranger
as Jim Douglas · 1949
Pinocchio
as Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited) · 1940
Buffalo Bill Jr.
as Buffalo Bill Jr. · 1955
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Richard Jones (uncredited) · 1939
The Range Rider
as Dick West · 1951
Sands of Iwo Jima
as Scared Marine (uncredited) · 1950
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited) · 1939
Babes in Toyland
as Schoolboy (uncredited) · 1934
The Outlaw
as Boy (uncredited) · 1943
Destry Rides Again
as Claggett Boy · 1939
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice) · 2023
Knute Rockne All American
as Boy Captain (uncredited) · 1940
Walt Disney's Wet and Wild
as Pinocchio (voice) · 1986
Virginia City
as Cobby · 1940
The Howards of Virginia
as Matt Howard at 12 · 1940
Attila
· 1954
Brigham Young
as Henry Kent · 1940
The Bamboo Prison
as Jackie · 1954
A Man to Remember
as Dick Abbott (as a boy) · 1938
Flying Fists
as Dickie Martin · 1937
Rocky Mountain
as Jim 'Buck' Wheat · 1950
Ready, Willing and Able
as Junior · 1937
Black Legion
as Buddy Taylor · 1937
Love Begins at Twenty
as Boy on Streetcar · 1936
Love Is on the Air
as Bill - Mouse's Friend · 1937
Woman Doctor
as Johnny · 1939
Stella Dallas
as Lee Morrison · 1937
Fort Worth
as Luther Wicks · 1951
The Devil's Bedroom
as Norm · 1964
Last of the Pony Riders
as Johnny Blair · 1953
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Young Samuel Clemens · 1944
Nancy Drew... Reporter
as Killer Parkins · 1939
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
as Jimmy McLaw · 1936
Moonlight on the Prairie
as Dickie Roberts · 1935
The Devil's Party
as Young Joe · 1938
Queen of the Jungle
as David Worth as a child · 1935
Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
as Self · 1993
The Kid Comes Back
as Bobby Doyle · 1938
Westward Ho
as Jim Wyatt as a Child · 1935
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self · 1979
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
as Self · 1989
36 Hours to Kill
as Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful · 1936
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
as Boy with Sling Shot at Parade · 1935
The Night Rider
as Billy Joe · 1962
Our Gang Follies of 1936
as Dickie · 1935
Requiem for a Gunfighter
as Cliff Fletcher · 1965
The Man Who Dared
as Bill Carter · 1939
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
as Tommy MacDonald · 1937
On Borrowed Time
as Boy in Tree (uncredited) · 1939
Sons of New Mexico
as Randy Pryor · 1949
Land Beyond the Law
as Bobby Skinner (uncredited) · 1937
Land of Fighting Men
as Jimmy Mitchell · 1938
Daniel Boone
as Master Jerry Randolph · 1936
Blake of Scotland Yard
as Bobby Mason · 1937
Blake of Scotland Yard
as Bobby Mason · 1937
Wagon Team
as Dave Weldon · 1952
Wild Horse Round-Up
as Dickie Williams · 1936
Hollywood Round-Up
as Dickie Stevens · 1937
Sergeant Madden
as Dennis Madden, as a boy · 1939
Girls on Probation
as Magazine Newsboy · 1938
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Buddy · 1938
The Strawberry Roan
as Joe Bailey · 1948
Adventure in Washington
as Abbott · 1941
Musical Movieland
as Tourist (uncredited) · 1944
Redwood Forest Trail
as Mighty Mite · 1950
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
as Self · 2009
Shadow of the Boomerang
as Bob Prince · 1961
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
as Richard Reilly (uncredited) · 1950
Sutter's Gold
as 2nd Newsboy · 1936
The Call of the Savage
as Jan Trevor as a Boy · 1935
Maryland
as Lee Danfield, Age 12 · 1940
The Frontiersmen
as Artie Peters · 1938
Gasoloons
as Wilbur · 1936
The Cool and the Crazy
as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones) · 1958
Who's Looney Now
as Sonny Brown · 1936
The Old West
as Pinto · 1952
Little Men
as Dolly · 1934
The Pigskin Palooka
as Spike · 1937
The Wild Dakotas
as Mike McGeehee · 1956
The Vanishing Virginian
as Robert Yancey, Jr. · 1942
Sky Patrol
as Bobby Landis · 1939
The Hawk
as Dickie Thomas · 1935
This My Son
as Steve Caldwell · 1954
Savage Fury
as Jan Trevor, as a boy · 1956
Smoke Tree Range
as Teddy Page · 1937
A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
as Himself · 2000
Mountain Rhythm
as Darwood Gates Alton · 1943
Border Wolves
as Jimmie Benton · 1938