Gordon Jones
Biografia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gordon Wynnivo Jones (April 5, 1911 – June 20, 1963) was an American character actor, a member of John Wayne's informal acting company best known for playing Lou Costello's TV nemesis "Mike the Cop" and appearing as The Green Hornet in the first of two movie serials based on that old-time radio program. Iowa-born Jones had been a student athlete and star football guard ("Bull" Jones) at University of California, Los Angeles, and had also played a few seasons of professional football. He started out playing small roles in Wesley Ruggles' and Ernest B. Schoedsack's The Monkey's Paw (1933), his first credited role in Sam Wood's Let 'Em Have It (1935), and Sidney Lanfield's Red Salute (1935). By 1937, he had moved on to a contract at RKO Radio Pictures. In 1940, Jones had the title role in The Green Hornet but did not reprise the role in the sequel. Jones held a reserve commission in the army and was called into the service after filming his roles as "The Wreck" in My Sister Eileen (1942) and "Alabama Smith" in Flying Tigers (1942), a John Wayne vehicle that was one of the most popular action films of the war. This picture began Jones' 20-year onscreen association with Wayne, who was also a former football player at the University of Southern California. Jones remained associated with the service after the war, encouraging college students to consider the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. After resuming his acting career in the late 1940s, Jones appeared in prominent roles in the John Wayne features Big Jim McLain (1952) and Island in the Sky (1953). By the end of the 1940s, Jones had aged into a beefier screen presence and into very physical character roles. He was no longer a leading man but he had developed a comic villain persona which meshed with the work of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Jones' association with the duo began in The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947) with the role of the film's heavy, Jake Frame, and continued through their television series The Abbott and Costello Show. Jones played "Mike the Cop", Costello's hulking, loud-voiced antagonist. The program was produced for only two seasons, but ensured continued recognition for Jones via frequent reruns and a 21st Century DVD release. Jones also remained busy in films and on television throughout the 1950s, in pictures that ranged from the sci-fi chiller The Monster That Challenged the World to the Tony Curtis/Janet Leigh sex comedy The Perfect Furlough, and on TV series ranging from The Real McCoys to The Rifleman. Jones also appeared in two very successful Disney movies during the early '60s, The Absent-Minded Professor and Son of Flubber. He played harried school coaches in both pictures. He also starred with Mitzi Green and Virginia Gibson in the short-lived TV sitcom So This Is Hollywood (1955), and had a recurring role as neighbor Butch Barton during the early years of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet Jones returned to the John Wayne stock company portraying Douglas, the bureaucrat antagonist to Wayne's G.W. McLintock in the Western comedy McLintock! (1963). Jones unexpectedly succumbed to a heart attack on June 12, 1963, five months before the release of that movie. Jones has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the West side of the 1600 block of Vine Street.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
Film • 2011
jako Mike the Cop (archive footage)
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Film • 1994
jako Self (archive footage)
McLintock!
Film • 1963
jako Matt Douglas
The Lucy Show
Serial • 1962
jako Charlie Vantassel
Everything's Ducky
Film • 1961
jako Conroy
Władca świata
Film • 1961
jako Talkative Townsman
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
Serial • 1960
jako Nels Bergstrom
Surfside 6
Serial • 1960
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Film • 1960
jako Police Sgt. Joe Cassidy
Bitwa na Morzu Koralowym
Film • 1959
jako Torpedoman Bates
Hawaiian Eye
Serial • 1959
Dennis the Menace
Serial • 1959
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Serial • 1959
Laramie
Serial • 1959
Battle Flame
Film • 1959
jako Sgt. McKelvey
Na psa urok
Film • 1959
jako Captain Scanlon
Wymarzony urlop
Film • 1958
jako Sylvia
77 Sunset Strip
Serial • 1958
The Rifleman
Serial • 1958
Live Fast, Die Young
Film • 1958
jako Pop Winters
Maverick
Serial • 1957
Perry Mason
Serial • 1957
jako Deputy Gillis
Sugarfoot
Serial • 1957
jako Wasco Wolters
Have Gun, Will Travel
Serial • 1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Serial • 1957
jako Mike Gower
The Monster That Challenged the World
Film • 1957
jako Sheriff Josh Peters
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
Film • 1957
jako Pvt. Wilbur Clegg
Spring Reunion
Film • 1957
jako Jack Frazer
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Serial • 1956
Cheyenne
Serial • 1955
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Serial • 1955
Smoke Signal
Film • 1955
jako Corporal Rogers
Treasure of Ruby Hills
Film • 1955
jako Jack Voyle
The Wonderful World of Disney
Serial • 1954
jako Captain Scanlon - Chief of Police
Lassie
Serial • 1954
The Outlaw Stallion
Film • 1954
jako Wagner
Zdobyć kolejne wzgórze
Film • 1953
jako Moose (uncredited)
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
Serial • 1953
Wyspa w niebie
Film • 1953
jako Walrus
Woman They Almost Lynched
Film • 1953
jako Yankee Sergeant
I'm the Law
Serial • 1953
The Abbott and Costello Show
Serial • 1952
jako Mike Kelly
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Film • 1952
jako Curly Wolf
Cavalcade of America
Serial • 1952
jako Lt. Treusch
Wagon Team
Film • 1952
jako Marshal Sam Taplin
Big Jim McLain
Film • 1952
jako Olaf
The Winning Team
Film • 1952
jako George Glasheen
Sound Off
Film • 1952
jako Crockett
Gobs and Gals
Film • 1952
jako CPO Mike Donovan
Dangerous Assignment
Serial • 1952
Corky of Gasoline Alley
Film • 1951
jako Elwood Martin
Racket Squad
Serial • 1951
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Serial • 1951
jako Curly Wolf
Heart of the Rockies
Film • 1951
jako Splinters McGonigle
Spoilers of the Plains
Film • 1951
jako Splinters
Trail of Robin Hood
Film • 1950
jako Splinters McGonigle
North of the Great Divide
Film • 1950
jako Splinters McGonagle
Sunset in the West
Film • 1950
jako Splinters
Big Timber
Film • 1950
jako Jocko
The Gene Autry Show
Serial • 1950
Trigger, Jr.
Film • 1950
jako Splinters
The Arizona Cowboy
Film • 1950
jako I.Q. Barton
The Palomino
Film • 1950
jako Bill Hennessey
Belle of Old Mexico
Film • 1950
jako Tex Barnet
Dear Wife
Film • 1949
jako Taxi Cab Driver
Tokyo Joe
Film • 1949
jako Idaho
Easy Living
Film • 1949
jako Bill 'Holly' Holloran
Black Midnight
Film • 1949
jako Roy
Mr. Soft Touch
Film • 1949
jako Muggles (Uncredited)
The Untamed Breed
Film • 1948
jako Happy Keegan
Black Eagle
Film • 1948
jako Benjy Laughton
Sons of Adventure
Film • 1948
jako Andy Baldwin
A Foreign Affair
Film • 1948
jako Military Police
Whispering City
Film • 1947
jako Reporter
Abbott i Costello Wdowa z Wagon Gap
Film • 1947
jako Jake Frame
Sekretne życie Waltera Mitty
Film • 1947
jako Tubby Wadsworth
Youth Runs Wild
Film • 1944
jako Truck Driver (uncredited)
Latające tygrysy
Film • 1942
jako Alabama Smith
Highways by Night
Film • 1942
jako 'Footsy' Fogarty
My Sister Eileen
Film • 1942
jako 'The Wreck' Loomis
Among the Living
Film • 1941
jako Bill Oakley
You Belong to Me
Film • 1941
jako Robert Andrews
The Blonde from Singapore
Film • 1941
jako 'Waffles' Billings
The Feminine Touch
Film • 1941
jako Rubber-Legs Ryan
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Film • 1940
jako Ranger Radio Man (uncredited)
Girl from Havana
Film • 1940
jako Tubby Waters
Up in the Air
Film • 1940
jako Tex Barton
I Take This Oath
Film • 1940
jako Steve Hanagan
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Film • 1940
jako O'Brien
The Green Hornet
Film • 1940
jako Britt Reid / The Green Hornet
Henry Goes Arizona
Film • 1939
jako Tug Evans (uncredited)
Disputed Passage
Film • 1939
jako Bill Anderson
When Tomorrow Comes
Film • 1939
jako Radio Technician (uncredited)
Invitation to Happiness
Film • 1939
jako Dutch Arnold (uncredited)
Big Town Czar
Film • 1939
jako Chuck Hardy
Pride of the Navy
Film • 1939
jako Joe Falcon
The Long Shot
Film • 1939
jako Jeff Clayton
Out West with the Hardys
Film • 1938
jako Ray Holt
I Stand Accused
Film • 1938
jako Blackie
Rich Man, Poor Girl
Film • 1938
jako Tom Grogan
Quick Money
Film • 1937
jako Bill Adams
Fight for Your Lady
Film • 1937
jako Mike Scanlon
The Big Shot
Film • 1937
jako Chester Scott
There Goes My Girl
Film • 1937
jako Dunn
China Passage
Film • 1937
jako Joe Dugan
Sea Devils
Film • 1937
jako Puggy
They Wanted to Marry
Film • 1937
jako Jim Tyler
We Who Are About to Die
Film • 1937
jako Slim Tolliver
Night Waitress
Film • 1936
jako Martin Rhodes
Don't Turn 'em Loose
Film • 1936
jako Joe Graves
Walking on Air
Film • 1936
jako Joe
Devil's Squadron
Film • 1936
jako Tex
Strike Me Pink
Film • 1936
jako Butch Carson
Red Salute
Film • 1935
jako Michael (Lefty) Jones
Let 'em Have It
Film • 1935
jako Tex
Wild Girl
Film • 1932
jako Vigilante (uncredited)
Three Rogues
Film • 1931
jako Teamster (uncredited)