Gordon Jones

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-04-05 (52 years old)

Deathday

1963-06-20

Place of Birth

Alden, Iowa, USA

Gordon Jones

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 credi...

Acting

1950

Belle of Old Mexico

as Tex Barnet

1942

My Sister Eileen

as 'The Wreck' Loomis

1947

1953

1932

Wild Girl

as Vigilante (uncredited)

1942

Flying Tigers

as Alabama Smith

1941

Among the Living

as Bill Oakley

1960

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

as Police Sgt. Joe Cassidy

1963

McLintock!

as Matt Douglas

1959

Battle of the Coral Sea

as Torpedoman Bates

1949

Mr. Soft Touch

as Muggles (Uncredited)

1949

Tokyo Joe

as Idaho

1957

1953

Take the High Ground!

as Moose (uncredited)

1950

Trigger, Jr.

as Splinters

1941

The Feminine Touch

as Rubber-Legs Ryan

1940

Up in the Air

as Tex Barton

1952

Sound Off

as Crockett

1949

Easy Living

as Bill 'Holly' Holloran

1942

Highways by Night

as 'Footsy' Fogarty

1952

The Winning Team

as George Glasheen

1936

Strike Me Pink

as Butch Carson

1951

1950

The Arizona Cowboy

as I.Q. Barton

1937

Sea Devils

as Puggy

1950

Trail of Robin Hood

as Splinters McGonigle

1950

The Palomino

as Bill Hennessey

1955

1957

Spring Reunion

as Jack Frazer

1938

Rich Man, Poor Girl

as Tom Grogan

1948

A Foreign Affair

as Military Police

1940

I Take This Oath

as Steve Hanagan

1950

North of the Great Divide

as Splinters McGonagle

1950

Sunset in the West

as Splinters

1958

The Perfect Furlough

as MP "Sylvia"

1937

Fight for Your Lady

as Mike Scanlon

1952

Gobs and Gals

as CPO Mike Donovan

1958

Live Fast, Die Young

as Pop Winters

1951

Corky of Gasoline Alley

as Elwood Martin

1935

1937

1937

Quick Money

as Bill Adams

1938

I Stand Accused

as Blackie

1936

1961

1955

Smoke Signal

as Corporal Rogers

1937

We Who Are About to Die

as Slim Tolliver

1937

The Big Shot

as Chester Scott

1959

The Shaggy Dog

as Captain Scanlon, Police Chief

1939

The Long Shot

as Jeff Clayton

1939

Invitation to Happiness

as Dutch Arnold (uncredited)

1953

Woman They Almost Lynched

as Yankee Sergeant

1939

Henry Goes Arizona

as Tug Evans (uncredited)

1940

Girl from Havana

as Tubby Waters

1936

Night Waitress

as Martin Rhodes

1941

You Belong to Me

as Robert Andrews

1948

The Untamed Breed

as Happy Keegan

1940

The Green Hornet

as Britt Reid / The Green Hornet

1935

Red Salute

as Michael (Lefty) Jones

1939

Pride of the Navy

as Joe Falcon

1941

The Blonde from Singapore

as 'Waffles' Billings

1951

Heart of the Rockies

as Splinters McGonigle

1940

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

as Ranger Radio Man (uncredited)

1936

1952

Wagon Team

as Marshal Sam Taplin

1952

1939

Disputed Passage

as Bill Anderson

1948

Black Eagle

as Benjy Laughton

1949

1948

Sons of Adventure

as Andy Baldwin

1954

1937

China Passage

as Joe Dugan

1939

Big Town Czar

as Chuck Hardy

1961

Master of the World

as Talkative Townsman

1959

Battle Flame

as Sgt. McKelvey

2011

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

as Mike the Cop (archive footage)

1949

Dear Wife

as Taxi Cab Driver

1947

Whispering City

as Reporter

1944

Youth Runs Wild

as Truck Driver (uncredited)

1950

Big Timber

as Jocko

1994

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