Buck Jones (I) (1891–1942)

Actor | Producer | Director

Buck Jones was one of the greatest of the "B" western stars. Although born in Indiana, Jones ...

Born: December 12, 1891
Died: November 30, 1942 (age 50)

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Filmography

Known For

Law for Tombstone Alamo Bowie (1937)
Black Aces Ted Ames (1937)
The Dawn Trail Sheriff Larry Williams (1930)
Known For

Branded Cuthbert Chauncy Dale (1931)
Actor

Dawn on the Great Divide Buck Roberts (1942)
West of the Law Marshal Buck Roberts posing as Rocky Saunders (1942)
Riders of the West Marshal Buck Roberts (1942)
Down Texas Way U. S. Marshal Buck Roberts (1942)
Ghost Town Law Marshal Buck Roberts (1942)
Below the Border Marshal Buck Roberts - Posing as John Robbins (1942)
Forbidden Trails Marshal Buck Roberts (1941)
The Gunman from Bodie Marshal Buck Roberts - alias Bob 'Bodie' Bronson (1941)
Arizona Bound Marshal Buck Roberts (1941)
Riders of Death Valley Tombstone (1941)
White Eagle White Eagle (1941)
Wagons Westward Sheriff Jim McDaniels (1940)
Unmarried Slag Bailey (1939)
California Frontier Buck Pearson (1938)
Law of the Texan Sergeant Buck Weaver - Texas Rangers (1938)
The Stranger from Arizona Buck Weylan (1938)
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 Buck Jones (1938)
The Overland Express Buck Dawson (1938)
Headin' East Buck Benson (1937)
Sudden Bill Dorn Bill Dorn (1937)
Boss of Lonely Valley Steve Hanson (1937)
Hollywood Round-Up Buck Kennedy (1937)
Law for Tombstone Alamo Bowie (1937)
Black Aces Ted Ames (1937)
Smoke Tree Range Lee Cary (1937)
Left-Handed Law Alamo Bowie (1937)
Sandflow Buck Hallett (1937)
Empty Saddles Buck Devlin (1936)
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek Larry Day / Gary Elliott (1936)
Ride 'Em Cowboy Jess Burns aka Speed (1936)
The Phantom Rider Buck Grant (1936)
The Cowboy and the Kid Steve Davis (1936)
For the Service Buck O'Bryan (1936)
Silver Spurs Jim Fentriss (1936)
Sunset of Power Cliff Lea (1936)
The Ivory-Handled Gun Buck Ward (1935)
The Throwback Buck Saunders (1935)
Outlawed Guns Reece Rivers (1935)
The Roaring West Montana Larkin (1935)
Border Brigands Sergeant Buck Barry, RCMP (1935)
Stone of Silver Creek T. William Stone (1935)
The Crimson Trail Billy Carter (1935)
When a Man Sees Red Buck Benson (1934)
Rocky Rhodes Rocky Rhodes (1934)
The Red Rider 'Red' Davidson (1934)
The Man Trailer Track Ames aka Dan Lane (1934)
The Fighting Ranger Jim Houston (1934)
The Fighting Code Ben Halliday (1933)
Gordon of Ghost City Buck Gordon (1933)
Unknown Valley Joe Gordon (1933)
The Thrill Hunter Buck Crosby (1933)
The California Trail Santa Fe Stewart (1933)
Treason Jeff Connors, posing as Chet Dawson (1933)
Child of Manhattan Panama Kelley (1933)
Sundown Rider Camp O'Neil (1932)
Forbidden Trail Tom Devlin (1932)
White Eagle White Eagle (1932)
McKenna of the Mounted Sgt. Tom McKenna (1932)
Hello Trouble Jeff Douglas (1932)
High Speed Bill Toomey (1932)
South of the Rio Grande Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (1932)
One Man Law Brand Thompson (1932)
Ridin' for Justice Buck Randall (1932)
The Deadline Buck Donlin (1931)
The Range Feud Sheriff Buck Gordon (1931)
Border Law Jim Houston - Texas Ranger (1931)
Branded Cuthbert Chauncy Dale (1931)
The Fighting Sheriff Sheriff Bob Terry (1931)
The Texas Ranger Jim Logan - Texas Ranger (1931)
The Avenger Joaquin Murietta aka The Black Shadow (1931)
Desert Vengeance Jim Cardew (1931)
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 Buck Jones (1930)
The Dawn Trail Sheriff Larry Williams (1930)
Men Without Law Buck Healy (1930)
Shadow Ranch Sim Baldwin (1930)
The Lone Rider Jim Lanning (1930)
The Big Hop Buck Bronson (1928)
The Branded Sombrero Starr Hallett (1928)
Blood Will Tell Buck Peters (1927)
Black Jack Phil Dolan (1927)
Chain Lightning Steve Lannon (1927)
Good As Gold Buck Brady (1927)
Hills of Peril Laramie (1927)
Whispering Sage Buck Kildare (1927)
The War Horse Buck Thomas (1927)
Desert Valley Fitzsmith (1926)
30 Below Zero Don Hathaway Jr. (1926)
The Flying Horseman Mark Winton (1926)
The Gentle Cyclone Absolem Wales (1926)
A Man Four-Square Craig Norton (1926)
The Fighting Buckaroo Larry Crawford (1926)
The Cowboy and the Countess Jerry Whipple (1926)
The Desert's Price Wils McCann (1925)
Lazybones Steve Tuttle, aka Lazybones (1925)
Durand of the Bad Lands Dick Durand (1925)
The Timber Wolf Bruce Standing (1925)
Hearts and Spurs Hal Emory (1925)
Gold and the Girl Dan Prentiss (1925)
The Trail Rider Tex Hartwell (1925)
The Arizona Romeo Tom Long (1925)
The Man Who Played Square Matt Black (1924)
Winner Take All Perry Blair (1924)
The Desert Outlaw Sam Langdon (1924)
Against All Odds Chick Newton (1924)
Western Luck Larry Campbell (1924)
The Circus Cowboy Buck Saxon (1924)
The Vagabond Trail Donnegan (1924)
Not a Drum Was Heard Jack Mills (1924)
Cupid's Fireman Andy McGee (1923)
Big Dan Dan O'Hara (1923)
Hell's Hole Tod Musgrave (1923)
Second Hand Love Andy Hanks (1923)
Skid Proof Jack Darwin (1923)
The Eleventh Hour Brick McDonald (1923)
Snowdrift Carter Brent (1923)
The Footlight Ranger Bill Moreland (1923)
The Boss of Camp Four Chet Fanning (1922)
Bells of San Juan Roderick Norton (1922)
The Fast Mail Stanley Carson (1922)
West of Chicago Conroy Daly (1922)
Trooper O'Neill Trooper O'Neill (1922)
Roughshod 'Steel' Brannon (1922)
Western Speed Red Kane (1922)
Pardon My Nerve! Racey Dawson (1922)
Riding with Death 'Dynamite' Steve Dorsey (1921)
Bar Nothing Duke Smith (1921)
To a Finish Jim Blake (1921)
Straight from the Shoulder Buck (1921)
Get Your Man Jock MacTier (1921)
The One-Man Trail Tom Merrill (1921)
The Big Punch Buck (1921)
Two Moons Bill Blunt (1920)
Just Pals Bim (1920)
Sunset Sprague Sunset Sprague (1920)
Firebrand Trevison Firebrand Trevison (1920)
Square Shooter Chick Crandall (1920)
The Spirit of Good Minor Role (1920)
Forbidden Trails Quinton 'Squint' Taylor (1920)
The Last Straw Tom Beck (1920)
The Cyclone Minor Role (1920)
The Cowboy and the Rajah (1919)
The Feud Minor Role (1919)
Cupid's Roundup (1919)
The Speed Maniac Minor Role (1919)
Brother Bill Roy Dexter (1919)
Rough-Riding Romance (1919)
When Pals Fall Out Bill (1919)
Shackles of Fate (1919)
The Wilderness Trail Indian (1919)
The Puncher and the Pup (1919)
The Coming of the Law Henchman (1919)
The Uphill Climb Rockcliffe Stone (1919)
Vengeance and the Girl (1919)
Pitfalls of a Big City Minor Role (1919)
Hell's Fury Gordon (1919)
The Sheriff's Son Cowboy (1919)
Fighting for Gold Cowboy (1919)
The Two Doyles Outlaw Henchman (1919)
The Desert Rat Standing Bear (1919)
The Rainbow Trail Cowboy (1918)
Riders of the Purple Sage Cowboy (1918)
Selfish Yates Member of the Posse (1918)
True Blue Cowboy (1918)
Western Blood Cowboy (1918)
A Rough Shod Fighter (1917)
The Outlaw Reforms Bill (1914)
Actor

Life on the 101 Ranch, Bliss Oklahoma Sergeant (1914)
Producer

Sudden Bill Dorn (1937)
Boss of Lonely Valley (1937)
Law for Tombstone (1937)
Black Aces (1937)
Smoke Tree Range (1937)
Left-Handed Law (1937)
Sandflow (1937)
Empty Saddles (1936)
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek (1936)
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1936)
The Cowboy and the Kid (1936)
For the Service (1936)
Silver Spurs (1936)
Sunset of Power (1936)
The Ivory-Handled Gun (1935)
The Throwback (1935)
Outlawed Guns (1935)
Border Brigands (1935)
Stone of Silver Creek (1935)
The Crimson Trail (1935)
When a Man Sees Red (1934)
Rocky Rhodes (1934)
Producer

The Big Hop (1928)
Director

Law for Tombstone (1937)
Black Aces (1937)
Director

For the Service (1936)
Writer

Ride 'Em Cowboy (1936)
The Cowboy and the Kid (1936)
Writer

The War Horse (1927)
Archive footage

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000)
The West That Never Was (1987)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)
Hollywood and the Stars (1963)
The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show (1962)
It Happened in Hollywood (1960)
Screen Snapshots: Out West in Hollywood (1953)
Archive footage

Screen Snapshots Series 27, No. 1: Hollywood Cowboys (1947)
The Scarlet Horseman (1946)

Awards

2 wins.

Did You Know

In 1928 he formed his own production company but the stock market crashed the following year and took him for everything. In response, he formed his own 'Wild West' show performing on his white steed Silver. His wife, Odille Osborne, rode her own ...

Quotes

In my pictures we never let up on the action. They've got as much movement as the silents. In the last one I rode a horse through a plate-glass window, and that's the sort of thing pictures need.