Gordon Jones

Acting •1911-04-05 •Alden, Iowa, USA

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.

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代表作

North of the Great Divide

1950 · Splinters McGonagle

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

2011 · Mike the Cop (archive footage)

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954 · Captain Scanlon - Chief of Police

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

The Abbott and Costello Show

1952 · Mike Kelly

The Lucy Show

1962 · Charlie Vantassel

The Rifleman

1958

柏林艳史

1948 · Military Police

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

1953

Let 'em Have It

1935 · Tex

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

2011 •Mike the Cop (archive footage)

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

1994 •Self (archive footage)

铁汉雌虎

1963 •Matt Douglas

The Lucy Show

1962 •Charlie Vantassel

Everything's Ducky

1961 •Conroy

大地之王

1961 •Talkative Townsman

钻石脚之起落

1960 •Police Sgt. Joe Cassidy

Surfside 6

1960

The Case of the Dangerous Robin

1960 •Nels Bergstrom

Battle of the Coral Sea

1959 •Torpedoman Bates

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The Shaggy Dog

1959 •Captain Scanlon, Police Chief

Battle Flame

1959 •Sgt. McKelvey

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

1959

Hawaiian Eye

1959

Dennis the Menace

1959

Laramie

1959

完美的假期

1958 •MP "Sylvia"

Live Fast, Die Young

1958 •Pop Winters

77 Sunset Strip

1958

The Rifleman

1958

万年海怪

1957 •Sheriff Josh Peters

Spring Reunion

1957 •Jack Frazer

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

1957 •Pvt. Wilbur Clegg

梅森探案集

1957 •Deputy Gillis

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

1957 •Mike Gower

Sugarfoot

1957 •Wasco Wolters

Maverick

1957

Sugarfoot

1957 •Sheriff

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

1957 •Joel Finlay

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

1956

Treasure of Ruby Hills

1955 •Jack Voyle

狼烟

1955 •Corporal Rogers

Cheyenne

1955

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

1955

The Outlaw Stallion

1954 •Wagner

Lassie

1954

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954 •Captain Scanlon - Chief of Police

风雨征空

1953 •Walrus

Take the High Ground!

1953 •Moose (uncredited)

混世女魔王

1953 •Yankee Sergeant

I'm the Law

1953

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

1953

Sound Off

1952 •Crockett

百胜雄心

1952 •George Glasheen

Gobs and Gals

1952 •CPO Mike Donovan

Wagon Team

1952 •Marshal Sam Taplin

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon

1952 •Curly Wolf

Big Jim McLain

1952 •Olaf

Cavalcade of America

1952 •Lt. Treusch

Dangerous Assignment

1952

The Abbott and Costello Show

1952 •Mike Kelly

Spoilers of the Plains

1951 •Splinters

Corky of Gasoline Alley

1951 •Elwood Martin

Heart of the Rockies

1951 •Splinters McGonigle

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1951 •Curly Wolf

Racket Squad

1951

Belle of Old Mexico

1950 •Tex Barnet

小特里杰

1950 •Splinters

The Arizona Cowboy

1950 •I.Q. Barton

Trail of Robin Hood

1950 •Splinters McGonigle

The Palomino

1950 •Bill Hennessey

North of the Great Divide

1950 •Splinters McGonagle

夕阳西下

1950 •Splinters

Big Timber

1950 •Jocko

The Gene Autry Show

1950

Mr. Soft Touch

1949 •Muggles (Uncredited)

东京风云

1949 •Idaho

Easy Living

1949 •Bill 'Holly' Holloran

Black Midnight

1949 •Roy

Dear Wife

1949 •Taxi Cab Driver

柏林艳史

1948 •Military Police

The Untamed Breed

1948 •Happy Keegan

Black Eagle

1948 •Benjy Laughton

Sons of Adventure

1948 •Andy Baldwin

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

1947 •Jake Frame

梦里乾坤

1947 •Tubby Wadsworth

Whispering City

1947 •Reporter

Youth Runs Wild

1944 •Truck Driver (uncredited)

My Sister Eileen

1942 •'The Wreck' Loomis

飞虎队

1942 •Alabama Smith

Highways by Night

1942 •'Footsy' Fogarty

活在其中

1941 •Bill Oakley

The Feminine Touch

1941 •Rubber-Legs Ryan

你只属于我

1941 •Robert Andrews

The Blonde from Singapore

1941 •'Waffles' Billings

Up in the Air

1940 •Tex Barton

I Take This Oath

1940 •Steve Hanagan

The Doctor Takes a Wife

1940 •O'Brien

Girl from Havana

1940 •Tubby Waters

The Green Hornet

1940 •Britt Reid / The Green Hornet

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

1940 •Ranger Radio Man (uncredited)

The Long Shot

1939 •Jeff Clayton

皇冠伉福

1939 •Dutch Arnold (uncredited)

Henry Goes Arizona

1939 •Tug Evans (uncredited)

海军之傲

1939 •Joe Falcon

歧路

1939 •Bill Anderson

Big Town Czar

1939 •Chuck Hardy

假如明天来临

1939 •Radio Technician (uncredited)

Rich Man, Poor Girl

1938 •Tom Grogan

I Stand Accused

1938 •Blackie

Out West with the Hardys

1938 •Ray Holt

Sea Devils

1937 •Puggy

Fight for Your Lady

1937 •Mike Scanlon

They Wanted to Marry

1937 •Jim Tyler

Quick Money

1937 •Bill Adams

There Goes My Girl

1937 •Dunn

We Who Are About to Die

1937 •Slim Tolliver

The Big Shot

1937 •Chester Scott

China Passage

1937 •Joe Dugan

Strike Me Pink

1936 •Butch Carson

Walking on Air

1936 •Joe

征空烈绩

1936 •Tex

Night Waitress

1936 •Martin Rhodes

Don't Turn 'em Loose

1936 •Joe Graves

Let 'em Have It

1935 •Tex

绯色恋爱

1935 •Michael (Lefty) Jones

Wild Girl

1932 •Vigilante (uncredited)

Three Rogues

1931 •Teamster (uncredited)