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L.Q. Jones
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Biography
L. Q. Jones (August 19, 1927 – July 9, 2022) was an American character actor and film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah. Jones was born in Beaumont in southeastern Texas, the son of Jessie Paralee (née Stephens) and Justus Ellis McQueen Sr., a railroad worker. After serving in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946, Jones attended Lamar Junior College (now Lamar University) and then studied law at the University of Texas at Austin from 1950 to 1951. He worked as a stand-up comic, briefly played professional baseball and football, and even tried ranching in Nicaragua before turning to acting after corresponding with his former college roommate, Fess Parker. At the time, in 1954, Parker was already in Hollywood working in films and on television. Jones is a practicing Methodist and a registered Republican. Jones made his film debut in 1955 in Battle Cry, credited under his birth name Justus McQueen. His character's name in that film, however, was "L. Q. Jones", a name he liked and decided to adopt as his stage name for all of his future roles as an actor. In 1955, he was cast as "Smitty Smith" in three episodes of Clint Walker's ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Cheyenne, the first hour-long western on network television. Jones appeared in numerous films in the 1960s and 1970s. He became a member of Sam Peckinpah's stock company of actors, appearing in his Klondike series (1960–1961), Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (1973). Jones was frequently cast alongside his close friend Strother Martin, most memorably as the posse member and bounty hunter "T. C." in The Wild Bunch. Jones also appeared as recurring characters on such western series as Cheyenne (1955), Gunsmoke (1955), Laramie, Two Faces West (1960–1961), and as ranch hand Andy Belden in The Virginian (1962). That same year (1962) Jones appeared as Ollie Earnshaw, a rich rancher looking for a bride on Lawman in the episode titled The Bride. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia CLR
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Wild Bunch
Appears in a KinoChain journey
A Boy and His Dog
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Mask of Zorro
As Three-Fingered Jack
Casino
As Pat Webb
The Edge
As Styles
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
As Roy Ralstop
Major Dundee
As Arthur Hadley
Ride the High Country
As Sylvus Hammond
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Riding the Circuit
From theme park gunslingers to bounty hunters on Mars, a journey through the sci-fi Western and the cultures that remade it.
8 films
Criminal Alliances
A chain tracing the anti-hero ensemble film from its war-movie origins through heist, western, and genre mutations to the modern comic-book iteration, examining...
8 films
The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws
There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...
8 films
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Route 666
2001 · Sheriff Bob Conaway
The Mask of Zorro
1998 · Three-Fingered Jack
The Edge
1997 · Styles
Casino
1995 · Pat Webb
White Line Fever
1975 · Buck Wessle
A Boy and His Dog
1975 · Porn Stud
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975 · Roy Ralstop
The Wild Bunch
1969 · T.C
Major Dundee
1965 · Arthur Hadley
Ride the High Country
1962 · Sylvus Hammond
Flaming Star
1960 · Tom Howard
Love Me Tender
1956 · Pardee Fleming (uncredited)
Santiago
1956 · Digger