Dick Jones (actor)

Richard Percy Jones , known as Dick Jones or Dickie Jones, was an American film and television actor who achieved success as a child performer and as a young adult, especially in BWesterns. In 1938, he played Artimer Artie Peters, nephew of Buck Peters, in the Hopalong Cassidy film, The Frontiersman. He may be best known as the voice of Pinocchio in the 1940 2nd Walt Disney film Pinocchio.

Richard Percy Dickie Jones was born on Friday, February 25, 1927 in Snyder, some ninety miles south of Lubbock, Texas. The son of a newspaper editor, Jones was a prodigious horseman from infancy, having been billed at the age of four as the Worlds 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, who convinced young Jones and his parents that he should come to Hollywood. Jones and his mother moved there, and 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 lowbudget westerns as well as in more substantial productions.

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