Dick Jones

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Richard Percy Jones (February 25, 1927-July Jones), also known as Dick Jones or Dickie Jones, was an American actor and singer who achieved fame as a child performer and as a youth, particularly in B-Westerns.

In 1938, he played Artimer "Artie" Peters, Buck Peters' nephew, in the Hopalong Cassidy film The Frontiersman.

He may be best known as Pinocchio in Walt Disney's film of the same name.

Early life

Jones was born in Snyder, about ninety miles south of Lubbock, Texas, on February 25, 1927. Jones, the son of a newspaper editor, was hailed as the "World's Youngest Trick Rider and Trick Roper" at the age of four. In the rodeo owned by western actor Hoot Gibson, he was hired to do riding and lariat tricks, and he told young Jones and his parents that he should come to Hollywood at the age of six. Jones and his mother left there, while Gibson arranged for some small parts for the boy, whose good looks, confidence, and pleasant demeanor quickly earned him more and larger roles, both in low-budget westerns and classical productions.

Personal life

Rick, Jeffrey, Jennifer, and Melody were married by Jones in 1948, and the family had four children together; Rick, Jeffrey, Jennifer, and Melody. They were married until Jones' death in 2014.

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Career

Little Men (1934) and A Man to Remember (1938) were two of his early films. Jones appeared in a number of Hal Roach's Our Gang (The Little Rascals) shorts, including The Pigskin Palooka and Our Gang Follies of 1938 (both 1937). In the film Nancy Drew... Reporter. In 1939, Jones appeared as a troublesome boy, Killer Parkins. Richard (Dick) Jones, a senator from Washington, appeared with Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Senate page Richard (Dick) Jones the same year. In 1940, he had one of his most prominent (albeit invisible) roles as the voice of Pinocchio in Disney's animated film of the same name. Jones attended Hollywood High School and took over the role of Henry Aldrich on the hit radio show The Aldrich Family at fifteen. He learned carpentry and augmented his earnings by working in this sector. During the final months of World War II, he served in the Army in the Alaska Territory.

Gene Autry, who appeared in several westerns before the war, brought him back to work by making his Flying A Productions on television. Jones appeared on The Gene Autry Show in the early 1950s regularly.

"Man Without a Gun" appeared on television series The Lone Ranger's 1950 episode. In 1950, he played the 16-year-old cook for a small Confederate Army unit in the film Rocky Mountain.

Dick Jones, a male sidekick to the Western hero known as The Range Rider, starred Jock Mahoney in a Gene Autry television series that ran for seventy-six episodes in syndication, beginning in 1951.

Jones appeared in four episodes of Annie Oakley, another Flying A Production, in 1954 and 1955. Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955), Autry's own comedy that ran for forty-two episodes in syndication, was released by Autry.

Jones was a fixture at the former Iverson Movie Ranch, the most heavily shot outdoor shooting site in Hollywood history, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Jones appeared twice in the syndicated American Civil War series "Grand Ghost" in 1957.

Jones appeared in "Fire Flight" of another syndicated series, The Blue Angels, in 1960, about the United States Navy's top air-show squadron. He appeared in the syndicated western film Pony Express. In 1962, Jones played John Hunter in the episode "The Wagon Train Mutiny" of NBC's Western series Wagon Train. He appeared in the television drama The Night Rider the same year.

In the 1965 film Requiem for a Gunfighter, Jones' last acting role was as Cliff Fletcher.

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