Acting · Snyder, Texas, USA · Born February 25, 1927
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.
MovieDisney 100: Remember That
2023
as Self - Pinocchio(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
MovieThe Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
2009
as Self
MovieA Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio'
2000
as Himself
MoviePinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
1993
as Self
MovieIt All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
1989
as Self
MovieWhen the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
as Self
MovieRequiem for a Gunfighter
1965
as Cliff Fletcher
MovieThe Devil's Bedroom
1964
as Norm
MovieThe Night Rider
1962
as Billy Joe
MovieShadow of the Boomerang
1961
as Bob Prince
MovieThe Cool and the Crazy
1958
as Stu Summerville (as Dick Jones)
MovieThe Wild Dakotas
1956
as Mike McGeehee
MovieSavage Fury
1956
as Jan Trevor, as a boy
TVBuffalo Bill Jr.
1955
as Buffalo Bill Jr.
MovieAttila
1954
This My Son
1954
as Steve Caldwell
MovieThe Bamboo Prison
1954
as Jackie
MovieLast of the Pony Riders
1953
as Johnny Blair
MovieThe Old West
1952
as Pinto
MovieWagon Team
1952
as Dave Weldon
MovieFort Worth
1951
as Luther Wicks
TVThe Range Rider
1951
as Dick West
MovieRocky Mountain
1950
as Jim 'Buck' Wheat
MovieRedwood Forest Trail
1950
as Mighty Mite
MovieMilitary Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
1950
as Richard Reilly (uncredited)
MovieSands of Iwo Jima
1950
as Scared Marine (uncredited)
MovieSons of New Mexico
1949
as Randy Pryor
TVThe Lone Ranger
1949
as Jim Douglas
MovieThe Strawberry Roan
1948
as Joe Bailey
MovieMusical Movieland
1944
as Tourist (uncredited)
MovieThe Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
as Young Samuel Clemens
MovieThe Outlaw
1943
as Boy (uncredited)
MovieMountain Rhythm
1943
as Darwood Gates Alton
MovieThe Vanishing Virginian
1942
as Robert Yancey, Jr.
MovieAdventure in Washington
1941
as Abbott
MovieKnute Rockne All American
1940
as Boy Captain (uncredited)
MovieBrigham Young
1940
as Henry Kent
MovieThe Howards of Virginia
1940
as Matt Howard at 12
MovieMaryland
1940
as Lee Danfield, Age 12
MovieVirginia City
1940
as Cobby
MoviePinocchio
1940
as Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
MovieDestry Rides Again
1939
as Claggett Boy
MovieMr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
as Richard Jones (uncredited)
MovieSky Patrol
1939
as Bobby Landis
MovieOn Borrowed Time
1939
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
MovieYoung Mr. Lincoln
1939
as Adam Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
MovieThe Man Who Dared
1939
as Bill Carter
MovieSergeant Madden
1939
as Dennis Madden, as a boy
MovieNancy Drew... Reporter
1939
as Killer Parkins
MovieWoman Doctor
1939
as Johnny
MovieThe Frontiersmen
1938
as Artie Peters
MovieLand of Fighting Men
1938
as Jimmy Mitchell
MovieGirls on Probation
1938
as Magazine Newsboy
MovieA Man to Remember
1938
as Dick Abbott (as a boy)
MovieThe Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938
as Buddy
MovieThe Devil's Party
1938
as Young Joe
MovieBorder Wolves
1938
as Jimmie Benton
MovieThe Kid Comes Back
1938
as Bobby Doyle
MovieHollywood Round-Up
1937
as Dickie Stevens
MovieThe Pigskin Palooka
1937
as Spike
MovieLove Is on the Air
1937
as Bill - Mouse's Friend
MovieRenfrew of the Royal Mounted
1937
as Tommy MacDonald
MovieStella Dallas
1937
as Lee Morrison
MovieFlying Fists
1937
as Dickie Martin
MovieSmoke Tree Range
1937
as Teddy Page
MovieLand Beyond the Law
1937
as Bobby Skinner (uncredited)
MovieReady, Willing and Able
1937
as Junior
MovieBlake of Scotland Yard
1937
as Bobby Mason
MovieBlake of Scotland Yard
1937
as Bobby Mason
MovieBlack Legion
1937
as Buddy Taylor
MovieWild Horse Round-Up
1936
as Dickie Williams
MovieDaniel Boone
1936
as Master Jerry Randolph
MovieWho's Looney Now
1936
as Sonny Brown
MovieLove Begins at Twenty
1936
as Boy on Streetcar
Movie36 Hours to Kill
1936
as Little Boy Selling The Garden Beautiful
MovieSutter's Gold
1936
as 2nd Newsboy
MovieThe Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936
as Jimmy McLaw
Gasoloons
1936
as Wilbur
MovieOur Gang Follies of 1936
1935
as Dickie
MovieMoonlight on the Prairie
1935
as Dickie Roberts
MovieO'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935
as Boy with Sling Shot at Parade
MovieWestward Ho
1935
as Jim Wyatt as a Child
MovieThe Hawk
1935
as Dickie Thomas
MovieThe Call of the Savage
1935
as Jan Trevor as a Boy
MovieQueen of the Jungle
1935
as David Worth as a child
MovieBabes in Toyland
1934
as Schoolboy (uncredited)
MovieLittle Men
1934
as Dolly
