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Gordon Jones
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Gordon Jones
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1911-04-05,Alden, Iowa, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

Belle of Old Mexico

9

Belle of Old Mexico
1950-03-01

My Sister Eileen

6.792

My Sister Eileen
1942-09-24

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

6.2

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947-10-08

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

6.8

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947-09-01

Island in the Sky

6.289

Island in the Sky
1953-09-05

6.167

Wild Girl
1932-11-09

6.241

Flying Tigers
1942-10-08

Among the Living

6.133

Among the Living
1941-12-12

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

6.077

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
1960-02-03

6.581

McLintock!
1963-11-12

Battle of the Coral Sea

5.841

Battle of the Coral Sea
1959-11-01

6.833

Mr. Soft Touch
1949-07-28

6.131

Tokyo Joe
1949-10-26

The Monster That Challenged the World

5.648

The Monster That Challenged the World
1957-06-14

Take the High Ground!

6.231

Take the High Ground!
1953-10-30

5.313

Trigger, Jr.
1950-06-30

The Feminine Touch

5.111

The Feminine Touch
1941-10-01

5.8

Up in the Air
1940-09-09

9

Sound Off
1952-05-15

5.714

Easy Living
1949-10-08

Highways by Night

7.333

Highways by Night
1942-10-02

The Winning Team

6.143

The Winning Team
1952-06-20

6.625

Strike Me Pink
1936-01-24

Spoilers of the Plains

8

Spoilers of the Plains
1951-02-02

The Arizona Cowboy

10

The Arizona Cowboy
1950-04-01

6

Sea Devils
1937-02-19

Trail of Robin Hood

6.333

Trail of Robin Hood
1950-12-15

10

The Palomino
1950-03-18

Treasure of Ruby Hills

5

Treasure of Ruby Hills
1955-01-23

6.2

Spring Reunion
1957-03-01

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

6

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957-05-04

Rich Man, Poor Girl

6.111

Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938-08-12

A Foreign Affair

7.1

A Foreign Affair
1948-08-20

I Take This Oath

5.75

I Take This Oath
1940-05-20

North of the Great Divide

8

North of the Great Divide
1950-11-15

Sunset in the West

7.429

Sunset in the West
1950-09-25

The Perfect Furlough

6.8

The Perfect Furlough
1958-11-30

Fight for Your Lady

5.6

Fight for Your Lady
1937-11-05

7

Gobs and Gals
1952-05-01

Live Fast, Die Young

6.5

Live Fast, Die Young
1958-04-01

Corky of Gasoline Alley

8

Corky of Gasoline Alley
1951-09-17

Let 'em Have It

7.6

Let 'em Have It
1935-05-15

They Wanted to Marry

5.75

They Wanted to Marry
1937-02-05

5.5

Quick Money
1937-12-10

There Goes My Girl

7.5

There Goes My Girl
1937-05-21

I Stand Accused

9

I Stand Accused
1938-10-29

6.333

Walking on Air
1936-09-11

Everything's Ducky

6.5

Everything's Ducky
1961-12-20

6.938

Smoke Signal
1955-03-01

The Doctor Takes a Wife

6.8

The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940-04-25

We Who Are About to Die

7

We Who Are About to Die
1937-01-08

6.5

The Big Shot
1937-07-23

6.2

The Shaggy Dog
1959-03-19

6

The Long Shot
1939-01-06

Devil's Squadron

7

Devil's Squadron
1936-04-30

Invitation to Happiness

7

Invitation to Happiness
1939-06-07

Woman They Almost Lynched

6.604

Woman They Almost Lynched
1953-03-20

Henry Goes Arizona

6.333

Henry Goes Arizona
1939-12-08

Girl from Havana

7.5

Girl from Havana
1940-09-11

6.375

Night Waitress
1936-12-18

You Belong to Me

6.031

You Belong to Me
1941-10-22

The Untamed Breed

6.5

The Untamed Breed
1948-10-20

The Green Hornet

6.042

The Green Hornet
1940-01-08

6

Red Salute
1935-09-12

Pride of the Navy

7

Pride of the Navy
1939-01-23

The Blonde from Singapore

5.75

The Blonde from Singapore
1941-10-15

Heart of the Rockies

7

Heart of the Rockies
1951-03-29

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

5.571

The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940-12-13

Don't Turn 'em Loose

5

Don't Turn 'em Loose
1936-09-18

6.333

Wagon Team
1952-09-29

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon

9

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
1952-11-01

5

Big Jim McLain
1952-08-30

Disputed Passage

7

Disputed Passage
1939-10-25

6.5

Black Eagle
1948-09-16

6.5

Black Midnight
1949-10-01

Sons of Adventure

9

Sons of Adventure
1948-09-01

The Outlaw Stallion

7.333

The Outlaw Stallion
1954-07-03

6.3

China Passage
1937-03-12

7

Big Town Czar
1939-05-03

Master of the World

6

Master of the World
1961-05-01

7

Battle Flame
1959-07-26

The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?

8

The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
2011-02-01

Out West with the Hardys

6.667

Out West with the Hardys
1938-11-25

6.333

Dear Wife
1949-11-15

Whispering City

4.8

Whispering City
1947-11-20

Youth Runs Wild

4.545

Youth Runs Wild
1944-09-01

10

Big Timber
1950-09-10

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

8.5

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994-11-24

When Tomorrow Comes

5.382

When Tomorrow Comes
1939-08-11

10

Three Rogues
1931-03-08

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

6.278

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959-09-29

77 Sunset Strip

7.1

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

6.1

Cheyenne
1955-09-20

6.333

Surfside 6
1960-10-06

7.706

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

5.6

Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07

6.218

Lassie
1954-09-12

Dennis the Menace

6.578

Dennis the Menace
1959-10-04

Have Gun, Will Travel

7.314

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14

The Gene Autry Show

4.667

The Gene Autry Show
1950-07-23

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

6.762

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955-09-06

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

6.8

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

5.333

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951-04-15

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

5.333

The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956-09-07

7.1

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

5.167

Sugarfoot
1957-09-17

6.694

Laramie
1959-09-15

6.5

Racket Squad
1951-06-07

Cavalcade of America

4.6

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

6

I'm the Law
1953-02-13

Dangerous Assignment

5.333

Dangerous Assignment
1952-01-01

6.94

Maverick
1957-09-22

5.167

Sugarfoot
1957-09-17

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

6.8

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01

7.11

The Lucy Show
1962-10-01

The Case of the Dangerous Robin

0

The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960-10-18

The Abbott and Costello Show

7.19

The Abbott and Costello Show
1952-12-05

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

8.5

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953-10-02

The Wonderful World of Disney

7.9

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954-10-27