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