DICK JONES: WHERE THE ACTION WAS (HARDCOVER EDITION) by Ann Snuggs

Dick Jones, a former child actor, may be best known as the voice of Pinocchio in Walt Disney’s Pinocchio (1940), but his long and fascinating career began much earlier. A phenomenal horseman, he was performing in rodeos at the age of four, billed as “The World’s Youngest Trick Rider and Trick Roper.” Upon seeing his skill, Hoot Gibson commented that the kid should be in the movies, and Dick was soon on his way to Hollywood." Early film roles included Little Men (1934), A Man to Remember (1938), several of Hal Roach's Our Gang (Little Rascals) shorts, Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939), and with Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Old Time Radio audiences also regularly heard Dick as Henry Aldrich on The Aldrich Family. After serving in the US Army in World War II, he often guest-starred on The Gene Autry Show in the early 1950s, as well as on The Lone Ranger. He became a household name in two early action-filled television Western shows, The Range