Gordon Jones

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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2011 Mike the Cop (archive footage)
1994 Self (archive footage)
1963 Matt Douglas
1962 Charlie Vantassel
1961 Conroy
1961 Talkative Townsman
1960 Police Sgt. Joe Cassidy
1960
1960 Nels Bergstrom
1959 Torpedoman Bates
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1959 Captain Scanlon, Police Chief
1959 Sgt. McKelvey
1959
1958 MP "Sylvia"
1958 Pop Winters
1957 Sheriff Josh Peters
1957 Jack Frazer
1957 Pvt. Wilbur Clegg
1957 Deputy Gillis
1957 Wasco Wolters
1957
1957 Sheriff
1955 Jack Voyle
1955 Corporal Rogers
1955
1954 Wagner
1954
1954 Captain Scanlon - Chief of Police
1953 Walrus
1953 Moose (uncredited)
1953 Yankee Sergeant
1952 Crockett
1952 George Glasheen
1952 CPO Mike Donovan
1952 Marshal Sam Taplin
1952 Curly Wolf
1952 Olaf
1952 Lt. Treusch
1952 Mike Kelly
1951 Splinters
1951 Elwood Martin
1951 Splinters McGonigle
1950 Tex Barnet
1950 Splinters
1950 I.Q. Barton
1950 Splinters McGonigle
1950 Bill Hennessey
1950 Splinters McGonagle
1950 Splinters
1950 Jocko
1949 Muggles (Uncredited)
1949 Idaho
1949 Bill 'Holly' Holloran
1949 Roy
1949 Taxi Cab Driver
1948 Military Police
1948 Happy Keegan
1948 Benjy Laughton
1948 Andy Baldwin
1947 Jake Frame
1947 Tubby Wadsworth
1947 Reporter
1944 Truck Driver (uncredited)
1942 'The Wreck' Loomis
1942 Alabama Smith
1942 'Footsy' Fogarty
1941 Bill Oakley
1941 Rubber-Legs Ryan
1941 Robert Andrews
1941 'Waffles' Billings
1940 Tex Barton
1940 Steve Hanagan
1940 O'Brien
1940 Tubby Waters
1940 Britt Reid / The Green Hornet
1940 Ranger Radio Man (uncredited)
1939 Jeff Clayton
1939 Dutch Arnold (uncredited)
1939 Tug Evans (uncredited)
1939 Joe Falcon
1939 Bill Anderson
1939 Chuck Hardy
1939 Radio Technician (uncredited)
1938 Tom Grogan
1938 Blackie
1938 Ray Holt
1937 Puggy
1937 Mike Scanlon
1937 Jim Tyler
1937 Bill Adams
1937 Dunn
1937 Slim Tolliver
1937 Chester Scott
1937 Joe Dugan
1936 Butch Carson
1936 Joe
1936 Tex
1936 Martin Rhodes
1936 Joe Graves
1935 Tex
1935 Michael (Lefty) Jones
1932 Vigilante (uncredited)
1931 Teamster (uncredited)