Buck Jones Overview:

Actor, Buck Jones, was born Charles Frederick Gebhart on Dec 12, 1891 in Vincennes, IN. Jones died at the age of 51 on Nov 30, 1942 in Boston, MA .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Buck Jones Quotes:

U. S. Marshal Buck Roberts: Boy, and to think we came down here to give this old buzzard a birthday party... and to think it almost became a necktie party!


Stella: Mr. Hopkins, these two marshals are friends of yours. Now, why couldn't you say that I was a prisoner in that shack, the same as you were. After all, I did let you free. They'd believe you, Mr. Hopkins, and then you could get me out of all this.
U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins: I believe you have somethin' there, ma'am. Yes, yes, I will get you out of here.
Stella: Oh, Mr. Hopkins, I knew you would.
U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins: I'll get you out of here and I'll send you to the penitentiary for twenty years!


[When a gunfight erupts in the saloon, Tim throws the fake Mrs. Dodge into Sandy's cell]
U. S. Marshal Tim McCall: Hey, let me out of this coop, Tim!
U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins: Sandy, you were always good at handling widows. See if you can't get some information out of this one.


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On the night of the tragic Cocoanut Grove fire, a large number of guests and close friends was at the club for a combination testimonial dinner in honor of Buck and a promotional event for his "Rough Rider" series for Monogram Pictures. Although the story is that Jones managed to escape the fire but returned back inside to help rescue people, the truth is that he was trapped inside along with all the others and never made it out. Monogram's studio head Scott R. Dunlap was one of those critically injured in the fire that killed over 500 people. Buck died two days later in a hospital before his wife, who luckily was out of town that night, could reach him.

Profiled in "Back in the Saddle: Essays on Western Film and Television Actors", Gary Yoggy, ed. (McFarland, 1998).

His body had been so badly burned in the Cocoanut Grove fire that skin from his fingers had been pulled off onto the fingerprint card sent to the Technical Section of the FBI's Identification Division. It took nearly 48 hours to identify the prints because so many fingers had to be searched in so many different places.

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