Gordon Jones

Gordon Jones

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1911-04-05
Place of Birth: Alden, Iowa, USA
Also Known As: Gordon Wynnivo Jones, Gordon W. Jones

Movies List of Gordon Jones

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Belle of Old Mexico

1950 Movie
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My Sister Eileen

1942 Movie
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Island in the Sky

1953 Movie
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Wild Girl

1932 Movie
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Flying Tigers

1942 Movie
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Among the Living

1941 Movie
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McLintock!

1963 Movie
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Mr. Soft Touch

1949 Movie
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Tokyo Joe

1949 Movie
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Take the High Ground!

1953 Movie
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Trigger, Jr.

1950 Movie
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The Feminine Touch

1941 Movie
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Up in the Air

1940 Movie
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Sound Off

1952 Movie
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Easy Living

1949 Movie
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Highways by Night

1942 Movie
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The Winning Team

1952 Movie
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Strike Me Pink

1936 Movie
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The Arizona Cowboy

1950 Movie
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Sea Devils

1937 Movie
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Trail of Robin Hood

1950 Movie
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The Palomino

1950 Movie
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Spring Reunion

1957 Movie
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Rich Man, Poor Girl

1938 Movie
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A Foreign Affair

1948 Movie
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I Take This Oath

1940 Movie
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Sunset in the West

1950 Movie
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The Perfect Furlough

1958 Movie
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Fight for Your Lady

1937 Movie
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Gobs and Gals

1952 Movie
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Live Fast, Die Young

1958 Movie
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Let 'em Have It

1935 Movie
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They Wanted to Marry

1937 Movie
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Quick Money

1937 Movie
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There Goes My Girl

1937 Movie
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I Stand Accused

1938 Movie
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Walking on Air

1936 Movie
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Everything's Ducky

1961 Movie
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Smoke Signal

1955 Movie
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The Big Shot

1937 Movie
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The Shaggy Dog

1959 Movie
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The Long Shot

1939 Movie
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Devil's Squadron

1936 Movie
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Henry Goes Arizona

1939 Movie
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Girl from Havana

1940 Movie
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Night Waitress

1936 Movie
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You Belong to Me

1941 Movie
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The Untamed Breed

1948 Movie
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The Green Hornet

1940 Movie
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Red Salute

1935 Movie
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Pride of the Navy

1939 Movie
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Heart of the Rockies

1951 Movie
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Don't Turn 'em Loose

1936 Movie
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Wagon Team

1952 Movie
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Big Jim McLain

1952 Movie
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Disputed Passage

1939 Movie
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Black Eagle

1948 Movie
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Black Midnight

1949 Movie
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Sons of Adventure

1948 Movie
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The Outlaw Stallion

1954 Movie
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China Passage

1937 Movie
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Big Town Czar

1939 Movie
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Master of the World

1961 Movie
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Battle Flame

1959 Movie
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Dear Wife

1949 Movie
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Whispering City

1947 Movie
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Youth Runs Wild

1944 Movie
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Big Timber

1950 Movie