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- Category: Television
- Star rank: 1061
- Address:
7038 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing east
- GPS location:
34.101417, -118.342909
Dick Jones
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Dick Jones
Dickie Jones (born February 25, 1927) is an American actor who achieved some success as a child and as a young adult, especially in B-Westerns and television. He is best known as the voice of Pinocchio in the 1940 Walt Disney film. Jones was born in Snyder, the seat of Scurry County on the South Plains in Texas. The son of a 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, so the boy and his mother moved there. 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. Although often uncredited, he was usually known as Dickie Jones.
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Hollywood Blvd, south side, between Sycamore and Orange
- Go east and cross Orange
- Go west and cross Sycamore
- Cross to the north side of Hollwood near Sycamore
- Cross to the north side of Hollwood near Orange
Nearby you will also find Ernst Lubitsch, Jack Webb, Sam Waterston, and many others.