L.Q. Jones
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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
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Credits
Casino (1995)
as Pat Webb
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
as Three-Fingered Jack
The Edge (1997)
as Styles
Lightning Jack (1994)
as Sheriff
Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
as Supply Sgt. Frazer
Hang 'em High (1968)
as Loomis
The Wild Bunch (1969)
as T.C
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
as Black Harris
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
as Dakota
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
as Taggart
Ride the High Country (1962)
as Sylvus Hammond
The Patriot (1998)
as Frank
Warlock (1959)
as Fen Jiggs (uncredited)
The Young Lions (1958)
as Pvt. Donnelly (uncredited)
Battle Cry (1955)
as Pvt. L.Q. Jones
Manhunter (1974)
as Charles 'Crutch' Shanks
Love Me Tender (1956)
as Pardee Fleming (uncredited)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
as Porn Stud
Major Dundee (1965)
as Arthur Hadley
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
as Chuck Akers
River of Death (1989)
as Hiller
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
as Ben Potter
Flaming Star (1960)
as Tom Howard
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free (1976)
as Sheriff Tadlock
The Hunting Party (1971)
as Hog Warren
The Jack Bull (1999)
as Henry Ballard
Cimarron (1960)
as Millis
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
as Bronc Hoverty
White Line Fever (1975)
as Buck Wessle
Men in War (1957)
as Sgt. Davis
Hound-Dog Man (1959)
as Dave Wilson
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
as Davey
Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
as Pvt. Kenny - Co. G
Route 666 (2001)
as Sheriff Bob Conaway
The Beast Within (1982)
as Sheriff Pool
Santiago (1956)
as Digger
Ten Who Dared (1960)
as Billy Hawkins
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
as Pecos Hill
The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
as Sheriff
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self
Torpedo Run (1958)
as 'Hash' Benson
Operation Mad Ball (1957)
as Ozark
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage (1996)
as Self
Iron Angel (1964)
as Buttons
The Legend Of Grizzly Adams (1991)
as Reno
Apache Rifles (1964)
as Mike Greer
The McMasters (1970)
as Russel
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as Woodrow Wilson
43: The Richard Petty Story (1972)
as Ed Koler
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993)
as Self
Tornado! (1996)
as Ephram Thorne
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
as Floyd
Bulletproof (1988)
as Sgt. O'Rourke
Showdown (1963)
as Foray
The Devil's Bedroom (1964)
as (as Justus McQueen)
Gunsight Ridge (1957)
as Lazy Heart Ranch Hand
Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
as Yeoman Halliday
Winterhawk (1975)
as Gates
Colorado C.I. (1978)
as Hoyt Gunnison
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974)
as Sheriff Berlinger
Toward the Unknown (1956)
as 2nd Lt. Sweeney
The Counterfeit Killer (1968)
as Hotel Clerk
Fireball Forward (1972)
as Maj. Larkin
Target Zero (1955)
as Pvt. Felix O'Hara
The Bravos (1972)
as Ben Lawler
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
as Self
Standing Tall (1978)
as Nate Rackley
Mrs. Sundance (1974)
as Charles Siringo
Noon Wine (1966)
as Deputy
Sacred Ground (1983)
as Tolbert Coleman
An Annapolis Story (1955)
as Watson
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western (2024)
as Self