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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1911-04-05
- event Death Date 1963-06-20
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 8.8
- info Birth Place Alden, Iowa, USA
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Belle of Old Mexico
1950-03-01
6.7
My Sister Eileen
1942-09-24
6.2
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947-10-08
6.8
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947-09-01
6.2
Island in the Sky
1953-09-05
6
Wild Girl
1932-11-09
6.2
Flying Tigers
1942-10-08
6.1
Among the Living
1941-12-12
5.8
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
1960-02-03
6.6
McLintock!
1963-11-12
5.8
Battle of the Coral Sea
1959-11-01
6.8
Mr. Soft Touch
1949-07-28
6.1
Tokyo Joe
1949-10-26
5.7
The Monster That Challenged the World
1957-06-14
5.7
Take the High Ground!
1953-10-30
4.6
Trigger, Jr.
1950-06-30
5.1
The Feminine Touch
1941-10-01
5.5
Up in the Air
1940-09-09
0
Sound Off
1952-05-15
5.9
Easy Living
1949-10-08
6
Highways by Night
1942-10-02
5.5
The Winning Team
1952-06-20
6.6
Strike Me Pink
1936-01-24
6
Spoilers of the Plains
1951-02-02
0
The Arizona Cowboy
1950-04-01
5.7
Sea Devils
1937-02-19
4.7
Trail of Robin Hood
1950-12-15
0
The Palomino
1950-03-18
4
Treasure of Ruby Hills
1955-01-23
5.8
Spring Reunion
1957-03-01
6.1
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957-05-04
5.9
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938-08-12
7
A Foreign Affair
1948-08-20
4.3
I Take This Oath
1940-05-20
0
North of the Great Divide
1950-11-15
7.8
Sunset in the West
1950-09-25
7.1
The Perfect Furlough
1958-11-30
4.3
Fight for Your Lady
1937-11-05
0
Gobs and Gals
1952-05-01
5.7
Live Fast, Die Young
1958-04-01
0
Corky of Gasoline Alley
1951-09-17
7
Let 'em Have It
1935-05-15
5
They Wanted to Marry
1937-02-05
4
Quick Money
1937-12-10
0
There Goes My Girl
1937-05-21
0
I Stand Accused
1938-10-29
5.8
Walking on Air
1936-09-11
7.5
Everything's Ducky
1961-12-20
6.7
Smoke Signal
1955-03-01
6.9
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940-04-25
6.8
We Who Are About to Die
1937-01-08
5
The Big Shot
1937-07-23
6.2
The Shaggy Dog
1959-03-19
5.8
The Long Shot
1939-01-06
6
Devil's Squadron
1936-04-30
0
Invitation to Happiness
1939-06-07
6.2
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953-03-20
6
Henry Goes Arizona
1939-12-08
5
Girl from Havana
1940-09-11
5.8
Night Waitress
1936-12-18
5.8
You Belong to Me
1941-10-22
5
The Untamed Breed
1948-10-20
5.5
The Green Hornet
1940-01-08
5.8
Red Salute
1935-09-12
0
Pride of the Navy
1939-01-23
5
The Blonde from Singapore
1941-10-15
6
Heart of the Rockies
1951-03-29
5.5
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940-12-13
4.8
Don't Turn 'em Loose
1936-09-18
6
Wagon Team
1952-09-29
0
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
1952-11-01
5
Big Jim McLain
1952-08-30
6
Disputed Passage
1939-10-25
6
Black Eagle
1948-09-16
6
Black Midnight
1949-10-01
0
Sons of Adventure
1948-09-01
5
The Outlaw Stallion
1954-07-03
5.5
China Passage
1937-03-12
0
Big Town Czar
1939-05-03
5.9
Master of the World
1961-05-01
6
Battle Flame
1959-07-26
8
The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
2011-02-01
6.2
Out West with the Hardys
1938-11-25
6
Dear Wife
1949-11-15
4.8
Whispering City
1947-11-20
4.2
Youth Runs Wild
1944-09-01
0
Big Timber
1950-09-10
5.9
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959-09-29
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
5.8
Cheyenne
1955-09-20
7
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950-09-10
5
Surfside 6
1960-10-06
7.7
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
5
Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07
6.2
Lassie
1954-09-12
6.7
Dennis the Menace
1959-10-04
7.4
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14
6.8
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955-09-06
4.8
The Gene Autry Show
1950-07-23
6
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01
7.3
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952-12-05
4.5
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951-04-15
3.7
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956-09-07
7
The Rifleman
1958-09-30
4.2
Sugarfoot
1957-09-17
6.5
Laramie
1959-09-15
6
Racket Squad
1951-06-07
3.5
Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01
5
I'm the Law
1953-02-13
3.5
Dangerous Assignment
1952-01-01
6.9
Maverick
1957-09-22
4.2
Sugarfoot
1957-09-17
6
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01
7.1
The Lucy Show
1962-10-01
0
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960-10-18