L.Q. Jones

Known for ActingBorn 1927-08-19Died 2022-07-09Beaumont, Texas, USA

L. Q. Jones (born August 19, 1927, died July 9th 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 CLRRead more

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Assignment: Vienna

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Casino

Columbo

Delphi Bureau

The Counterfeit Killer

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

Matt Helm

The Yellow Rose

Kung Fu

The Fall Guy

Mrs. Sundance

The Sacketts

Voyagers!

The A-Team

Riker

Perry Mason

The Wild Bunch

Rafferty

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

Iron Angel

The Devil's Bedroom

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

The Incredible Hulk

Enos

Walker, Texas Ranger

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Have Gun, Will Travel

McCloud

Hawaii Five-O

The Edge

Rawhide

Colorado C.I.

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

Vega$

How the West Was Won

Alias Smith and Jones

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Ride the High Country

Noon Wine

Renegade

CHiPs

The Mask of Zorro

The Magician

Hang 'em High

Hondo