Dean Carroll Jones
| Sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Jan 25, 1931 Decatur, AL |
| Died | Sep 1, 2015 Los Angeles, CA |
| Age | Died at 84 |
Dean Jones | |
| Job | Actor, singer |
| Years active | 1956-present |
| Top Roles | Dave Manning, Private in Rocky's Tent at Army Base, Assistant Stage Manager in Boston, Assistant Stage Manager, Fredrick 'Fred' Bolton |
| Top Genres | Drama, Comedy, Family, Film Adaptation, Romance, War |
| Top Topics | World War II, Based on Play, Disney |
| Top Collaborators | Norman Jewison (Director), Robert Stevenson (Director), William Conrad, Herb Vigran |
| Shares birthday with | Rupert Julian, Mildred Dunnock, King Donovan see more.. |
Dean Jones Overview:
Legendary actor, Dean Jones, was born Dean Carroll Jones on Jan 25, 1931 in Decatur, AL. Jones died at the age of 84 on Sep 1, 2015 in Los Angeles, CA .
MINI BIO:
Young-looking, brown-haired American comedy actor with wry smile who played bright young chaps on whom fortune never smiled until the happy ending. He had a spotty early career, but from 1965 worked for the Disney studio and made a major contribution - his look of hurt bewilderment was second only to that of James Stewart - to most of their biggest comedy hits. Began his career as a blues singer. In 1978 he became a born-again Christian and left show business to work for the charismatic worship movement. He returned to films in 1991. (Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Stars).HONORS and AWARDS:
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On November 30, 1995, Jones received the Disney Legends Award for living up to the Disney principals of imagination, skill, discipline, craftsmanship and magic. Jones was never nominated for an Academy Award.
BlogHub Articles:
, Walt Disney, and a Quartet of Monkeys (or rather, Chimps)
By Rick29 on Apr 15, 2024 From Classic Film & TV CafeYvette Mimieux with one of the chimps. We've been on a Disney movie run at the Cafe, revisiting some of the studio’s lesser-known live action films. There have been some pleasant surprises (Emil and the Detectives) and a few major disappointments (Dick Van Dyke wasted in Never a Dull Moment).... Read full article
On Blu-ray: Connie Stevens and in Two on a Guillotine (1965)
By KC on Feb 25, 2020 From Classic MoviesI didn’t get what I expected when I watched the new Warner Archive Blu-ray of Two on a Guillotine. With the cover gruesomely displaying a disembodied head and a drop of blood dripping of the title, I anticipated a Grand Guignol-style chiller. It turns out this wasn’t to be, but I enjoyed... Read full article
Connie Stevens and Make for "Two on a Guillotine"
By Rick29 on Jul 31, 2017 From Classic Film & TV CafeConnie Stevens as Cassie. Who is the mysterious young woman at the funeral of The Great Duquesne? She could be the spitting image of the famous magician's wife Melinda, who disappeared without explanation twenty years earlier. And what's up with the casket fitted with a window and wrapped in chains... Read full article
Connie Stevens and Make for "Two on a Guillotine"
By Rick29 on Jul 31, 2017 From Classic Film & TV CafeConnie Stevens as Cassie. Who is the mysterious young woman at the funeral of The Great Duquesne? She could be the spitting image of the famous magician's wife Melinda, who disappeared without explanation twenty years earlier. And what's up with the casket fitted with a window and wrapped in chains... Read full article
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Dean Jones Quotes:
Mr. Thorndyke: Have you gone mad?
Jim Douglas: Okay, what's the joke?
Mr. Thorndyke: What do you mean?
Jim Douglas: I don't know how you rigged it, but I'm sure that car is a real cut-up when a convention comes to town.
Mr. Thorndyke: What in the name of...
Jim Douglas: If I'd wanted a trick car, I would have bought one at a joke shop.
Mr. Thorndyke: [as Carole joins him] Allow me to say that I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. You come billowing up in that beastly little car, and assault my personal Rolls Royce.
Jim Douglas: ...I brought it back! I want my money, I want the papers I signed, and then I'll get outta here, and you two clowns can, can have your little laugh.
Carole: Mr. Douglas, if there is anything wrong with the car, would you be good enough to tell me what it is?
Jim Douglas: Well, there's nothing essentially wrong with the car. It's just that it wants to go one way and I'd like to go the other.
Mr. Thorndyke: Well, whatever it is, none of it is covered in our guilt-headed guarantee.
Jim Douglas: Oh, I'm sure of that.
Jim Douglas: You don't understand what happens, do you? They make ten thousand cars, they make them exactly the same way, and one or two of 'em turn out to be something special. Nobody knows why.
Tennessee Steinmetz: Herbie's all right.
Jim Douglas: Who's Herbie?
Tennessee Steinmetz: This little car. Named after my Uncle Herb. He used to box middleweight. Preliminary, mostly. Gradually, his nose got shaped more and more like to remind me of this little car. Do you mind?
Jim Douglas: [laughing with him] Whatever you say, Tennessee.
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