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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGordon Wynnivo Jones (April 5, 1911 – June 20, 1963) was an American character actor, a member of John Waynes informal acting company best known for playing Lou Costellos 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. Schoedsacks The Monkeys Paw (1933), his first credited role in Sam Woods Let Em Have It (1935), and Sidney Lanfields 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 films heavy, Jake Frame, and continued through their television series The Abbott and Costello Show. Jones played Mike the Cop, Costellos 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 HarrietJones returned to the John Wayne stock company portraying Douglas, the bureaucrat antagonist to Waynes 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.
Tex Barnet
Film 1950
Jake Frame
Film 1947
Tubby Wadsworth
Film 1947
Walrus
Film 1953
Vigilante (uncredited)
Film 1932
Alabama Smith
Film 1942
Bill Oakley
Film 1941
Police Sgt. Joe Cassidy
Film 1960
Matt Douglas
Film 1963
Torpedoman Bates
Film 1959
Muggles (Uncredited)
Film 1949
Idaho
Film 1949
Sheriff Josh Peters
Film 1957
Moose (uncredited)
Film 1953
Splinters
Film 1950
Tex Barton
Film 1940
Crockett
Film 1952
Bill 'Holly' Holloran
Film 1949
'Footsy' Fogarty
Film 1942
George Glasheen
Film 1952
Butch Carson
Film 1936
Splinters
Film 1951
I.Q. Barton
Film 1950
Puggy
Film 1937
Splinters McGonigle
Film 1950
Bill Hennessey
Film 1950
Jack Voyle
Film 1955
Jack Frazer
Film 1957
Will Clegg
Film 1957
Tom Grogan
Film 1938
Military Police
Film 1948
Steve Hanagan
Film 1940
Splinters McGonagle
Film 1950
Splinters
Film 1950
MP "Sylvia"
Film 1958
Mike Scanlon
Film 1937
CPO Mike Donovan
Film 1952
Pop Winters
Film 1958
Elwood Martin
Film 1951
Tex
Film 1935
Jim Tyler
Film 1937
Bill Adams
Film 1937
Dunn
Film 1937
Blackie
Film 1938
Conroy
Film 1961
Corporal Rogers
Film 1955
O'Brien
Film 1940
Slim Tolliver
Film 1937
Chester Scott
Film 1937
Captain Scanlon, Police Chief
Film 1959
Jeff Clayton
Film 1939
Tex
Film 1936
Dutch Arnold (uncredited)
Film 1939
Yankee Sergeant
Film 1953
Tug Evans (uncredited)
Film 1939
Martin Rhodes
Film 1936
Robert Andrews
Film 1941
Happy Keegan
Film 1948
Britt Reid / The Green Hornet
Film 1940
Michael (Lefty) Jones
Film 1935
Joe Falcon
Film 1939
'Waffles' Billings
Film 1941
Splinters McGonigle
Film 1951
Ranger Radio Man (uncredited)
Film 1940
Joe Graves
Film 1936
Marshal Sam Taplin
Film 1952
Curly Wolf
Film 1952
Olaf
Film 1952
Bill Anderson
Film 1939
Benjy Laughton
Film 1948
Roy
Film 1949
Andy Baldwin
Film 1948
Wagner
Film 1954
Joe Dugan
Film 1937
Chuck Hardy
Film 1939
Talkative Townsman
Film 1961
Sgt. McKelvey
Film 1959
Mike the Cop (archive footage)
Film 2011
Ray Holt
Film 1938
Taxi Cab Driver
Film 1949
Reporter
Film 1947
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Film 1944
Jocko
Film 1950
Tv 1959
Tv 1958
Tv 1955
Self
Tv 1950
Tv 1960
Deputy Gillis
Tv 1957
Tv 1959
Tv 1954
Tv 1959
Tv 1957
Tv 1950
Tv 1955
Mike Gower
Tv 1957
Tv 1952
Curly Wolf
Tv 1951
Tv 1956
Tv 1958
Tv 1959
Tv 1951
Lt. Treusch
Tv 1952
Tv 1953
Tv 1952
Tv 1957
Joel Finlay
Tv 1957
Charlie Vantassel
Tv 1962
Nels Bergstrom
Tv 1960
