Dean Jones (actor)

**Dean Carroll Jones** (January 25, 1931 – September 1, 2015) was an American actor. He was born in Decatur, Alabama.

Jones was best known for his light-hearted leading roles in several Walt Disney movies between 1965 and 1977. He was known for his roles in _The Love Bug_ and in _Beethoven_.

Jones died from Parkinson's disease in Los Angeles, California, aged 84.

### Film

|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Year|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Title|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Role|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1956|_Somebody Up There Likes Me_|Private in Rocky's Tent|Uncredited|||||
|1956|_These Wilder Years_|Hardware Clerk||||||
|1956|_Tea and Sympathy_|Ollie||||||
|1956|_The Opposite Sex_|Assistant Stage Manager|Uncredited|||||
|1956|_The Rack_|Lieutenant|Uncredited|||||
|1956|_The Great American Pastime_|Buck Rivers||||||
|1957|_Slander_|Newscaster|Uncredited|||||
|1957|_Ten Thousand Bedrooms_|Dan||||||
|1957|_Designing Woman_|Assistant Stage Manager (Boston)|Uncredited|||||
|1957|_Until They Sail_|US Marine Lt.|Uncredited|||||
|1957|_Jailhouse Rock_|Teddy Talbot||||||
|1958|_Handle with Care_|Zachary Davis||||||
|1958|_Imitation General_|Cpl. Terry Sellers||||||
|1958|_Torpedo Run_|Lt. Jake "Fuzz" Foley||||||
|1959|_Night of the Quarter Moon_|Lexington Nelson||||||
|1959|_Never So Few_|Sgt. Jim Norby||||||
|1963|_Under the Yum Yum Tree_|Dave Manning||||||
|1964|_The New Interns_|Dr. Lew Worship||||||
|1965|_Two on a Guillotine_|Val Henderson||||||
|1965|_That Darn Cat!_|FBI Agent Zeke Kelso||||||
|1966|_The Ugly Dachshund_|Mark Garrison||||||
|1966|_Any Wednesday_|Cass Henderson||||||
|1967|_Monkeys, Go Home!_|Hank Dussard||||||
|1968|_Blackbeard's Ghost_|Steve Walker||||||
|1968|_The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit_|Fred Bolton||||||
|1968|_The Love Bug_|Jim Douglas||||||
|1970|_Mr. Superinvisible_|Peter Denwell||||||
|1971|_The $1,000,000 Duck_|Professor Albert Dooley||||||
|1972|_Snowball Express_|Johnny Baxter||||||
|1974|_The Sugarland Express_|Policeman at Football Game|Uncredited|||||
|1976|_The Shaggy D.A._|Wilby Daniels||||||
|1977|_Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo_|Jim Douglas||||||
|1978|_Born Again_|Charles W. Colson||||||
|1986|_St. John in Exile_|St. John||||||
|1991|_Other People's Money_|Bill Coles||||||
|1992|_The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible_|King Ahasuerus (voice)|Direct-to-video ("Queen Esther" segment)|||||
|1992|_Beethoven_|Dr. Herman Varnick||||||
|1994|_Clear and Present Danger_|Judge Moore||||||
|1994|_The Visual Bible: Acts_|Luke the Evangelist|Direct-to-video|||||
|1996|_Getting Around in Time_|Professor Mortimer||||||
|1997|_That Darn Cat_|Mr. Flint||||||
|1998|_Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero_|Dean Arbagast (voice)|Direct-to-video|||||
|2007|_Lavinia's Heist_|Tony Cavaletti|Short film|||||
|2009|_Mandie and the Secret Tunnel_|Jason Bond||||||
|2009|_God Provides_|Abraham|Direct-to-video (final film role)|||||

### Television

|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Year|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Title|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Role|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1960|_Zane Grey Theatre_|Deputy Bill Devlin|Episode: "The Sunday Man"|||||
|1960|_The Aquanauts_|John Anderson|Episode: "The Stowaway"|||||
|1960|_Outlaws_|Danny Cannon|Episode: "Beat the Drum Slowly"|||||
|1960|_Stagecoach West_|Joe Brady|Episode: "Red Sand"|||||
|1961|_The Dick Powell Show_|Detective Phil Winslow|Episode: "Who Killed Julie Greer?"|||||
|1961|_Bonanza_|Danny Kidd|Episode: "The Friendship"|||||
|1961|_Tales of Wells Fargo_|Jamie Coburn|Episode: "A Killing in Calico"|||||
|1962|_Target: The Corruptors!_|Barry Steele|Episode: "Play It Blue"|||||
|1962|_Wagon Train_|Lt. Burton|Episode: "The Lieutenant Burton Story"|||||
|1962–63|_Ensign O'Toole_|Ensign O'Toole|Main role (32 episodes)|||||
|1963|_Ben Casey_|Dr. Richard Connell|Episode: "Fire in a Sacred Fruit Tree"|||||
|1963|_Burke's Law_|Rudy Davis|Episode: "Who Killed Eleanora Davis?"|||||
|1965|_Kraft Suspense Theatre_|Eddie Carew|Episode: "The Rise and Fall of Eddie Carew"|||||
|1965|_Vacation Playhouse_|Alec Tate|Episode: "Alec Tate"|||||
|1968|_Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color_|Narrator (voice)|Episode: "The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show"|||||
|1969|_What's It All About, World?|Himself|Host (13 episodes)|||||
|1971|_The Chicago Teddy Bears_|Linc McCray|Main role (13 episodes)|||||
|1972|_The Great Man's Whiskers_|James E. Cooper|Television film|||||
|1973|_Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed?_|George Gregory|Television film|||||
|1974|_Medical Center_|Dr. Ronston|Episode: "Spectre"|||||
|1976|_Good Heavens_|Brad|Episode: "Coffee, Tea, or Gloria"|||||
|1977|_Once Upon a Brothers Grimm_|Jacob Grimm, Grandmother|Television film|||||
|1978|_When Every Day Was the Fourth of July_|Ed Cooper|Television film|||||
|1980|_The Long Days of Summer_|Ed Cooper|Television film|||||
|1981|_Aloha Paradise_|Alex|Episode: "Alex and Annie"|||||
|1982|_Herbie, the Love Bug_|Jim Douglas|Main role (5 episodes)|||||
|1983|_The Gospel According to Scrooge_|Narrator (voice)|Television film|||||
|1984|_Don't Ask Me, Ask God|Future Father|Television special|||||
|1984|_The Love Boat_|Marty Chenault|Episode: "Julie and the Producer" (Parts 1 & 2)|||||
|1984|_Finder of Lost Loves_|Steve Marsh|Episode: "Yesterday's Child"|||||
|1984|_Murder, She Wrote_|Marcus Boswell|Episode: "It's a Dog's Life"|||||
|1988|_Murder, She Wrote_|Leonard Palmer|Episode: "Harbinger of Death"|||||
|1989|_Fire and Rain_|Jack Ayers|Television film|||||
|1992|_Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style_|Harry Bannister|Television film|||||
|1994|_Beethoven_|George Newton (voice)|Main role (26 episodes)|||||
|1995|_Nowhere Man_|Jonathan Crane|Episode: "Father"|||||
|1995|_The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes_|Dean Webster Carlson|Television film|||||
|1996|_Special Report: Journey to Mars_|Dr. Scott Berlin|Television film|||||
|1996|_The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest_|Dr. Karel (voice)|Episode: "DNA Doomsday"|||||
|1996|_Superman: The Animated Series_|Col. Sam Lane (voice)|Episode: "Monkey Fun"|||||
|1997|_The Love Bug_|Jim Douglas|Television film|||||
|1998|_Adventures from the Book of Virtues_|Chauncey (voice)|Episode: "Trustworthiness"|||||
|2001|_Scrooge & Marley_|Ebenezer Scrooge|Television special|||||

## Broadway appearances

|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Title|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Role|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Dates|style="background: #B0C4DE;"|Theatre|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_There Was a Little Girl_|Stan Walters|February 29 – March 12, 1960|Cort Theatre|||||
|_Under the Yum Yum Tree_|Dave Manning|November 16, 1960 – April 15, 1961|Henry Miller's Theatre|||||
|_Company_|Robert|April 26 – May 28, 1970|Alvin Theatre|||||
|_Into the Light_|James Prescott|October 22 – October 26, 1986|Neil Simon Theatre|||||
|_Company_|Robert|April 11 – April 12, 1993|Vivian Beaumont Theater|||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Dean Jones
- **image**: Dean Jones 1966.JPG
- **caption**: Dean Jones in 1966
- **birth name**: Dean Carroll Jones
- **birth place**: Decatur, Alabama, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama, Morgan County, Alabama, U.S.
- **death place**: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **death cause**: Parkinson's disease
- **occupation**: Actor, singer
- **years active**: 1956–2009
- **children**: 3
- **parents**: Andrew Guy and Nolia Elizabeth Wilhite Jones