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
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
as Black Harris
The Edge (1997)
as Styles
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
as Dakota
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
as Taggart
Warlock (1959)
as Fen Jiggs (uncredited)
Route 666 (2001)
as Sheriff Bob Conaway
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
as Chuck Akers
The Patriot (1998)
as Frank
The Young Lions (1958)
as Pvt. Donnelly (uncredited)
Major Dundee (1965)
as Arthur Hadley
Manhunter (1974)
as Charles 'Crutch' Shanks
Battle Cry (1955)
as Pvt. L.Q. Jones
Santiago (1956)
as Digger
Ride the High Country (1962)
as Sylvus Hammond
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
as Porn Stud
The Jack Bull (1999)
as Henry Ballard
Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
as Supply Sgt. Frazer
Love Me Tender (1956)
as Pardee Fleming (uncredited)
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
as Bronc Hoverty
Ten Who Dared (1960)
as Billy Hawkins
The Hunting Party (1971)
as Hog Warren
Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
as Pvt. Kenny - Co. G
Iron Angel (1964)
as Buttons
Flaming Star (1960)
as Tom Howard
Hound-Dog Man (1959)
as Dave Wilson
Operation Mad Ball (1957)
as Ozark
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as Woodrow Wilson
Colorado C.I. (1978)
as Hoyt Gunnison
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
as Ben Potter
Cimarron (1960)
as Millis
Lightning Jack (1994)
as Sheriff
The Counterfeit Killer (1968)
as Hotel Clerk
Men in War (1957)
as Sgt. Davis
White Line Fever (1975)
as Buck Wessle
The McMasters (1970)
as Russel
Tornado! (1996)
as Ephram Thorne
Torpedo Run (1958)
as 'Hash' Benson
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
as Davey
Bulletproof (1988)
as Sgt. O'Rourke
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free (1976)
as Sheriff Tadlock
Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
as Yeoman Halliday
Apache Rifles (1964)
as Mike Greer
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
as Self
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
as Floyd
Toward the Unknown (1956)
as 2nd Lt. Sweeney
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage (1996)
as Self
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
as Pecos Hill
The Devil's Bedroom (1964)
as (as Justus McQueen)
The Legend Of Grizzly Adams (1991)
as Reno
The Bravos (1972)
as Ben Lawler
An Annapolis Story (1955)
as Watson
Fireball Forward (1972)
as Maj. Larkin
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974)
as Sheriff Berlinger
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
as Roy Ralstop
River of Death (1989)
as Hiller
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993)
as Self
Gunsight Ridge (1957)
as Lazy Heart Ranch Hand
Target Zero (1955)
as Pvt. Felix O'Hara
Sacred Ground (1983)
as Tolbert Coleman
Standing Tall (1978)
as Nate Rackley
The Beast Within (1982)
as Sheriff Pool
43: The Richard Petty Story (1972)
as Ed Koler
Winterhawk (1975)
as Gates
Showdown (1963)
as Foray
Mrs. Sundance (1974)
as Charles Siringo
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western (2024)
as Self
The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
as Sheriff
Noon Wine (1966)
as Deputy