Dean Jones

Dean Carroll Jones was an American actor and singer, who participated in numerous live-action Disney films between 1965 and 1977.
Jones starred in the NBC television sitcom Ensign O'Toole from 1962–1963, produced by Four Star Television, portraying an easy-going and inexperienced officer on a U.S. Navy destroyer. He also recorded a singing album Introducing Dean Jones for Valiant Records.
As Ensign O'Toole was the lead-in show on NBC to Walt Disney's The Wonderful World of Color, Disney ordered a print of Jones' latest film to study. They signed him on for a string of Disney films in the 1960s and 1970s, beginning with That Darn Cat! (Hayley Mills' last film with Disney). His performance was so well-received that they used him for future movies, including The Ugly Dachshund, Blackbeard's Ghost, and Snowball Express. He and Suzanne Pleshette were frequently paired in Disney's gimmick comedies.
Jones' signature Disney role would be as race car driver Jim Douglas in the highly successful The Love Bug series. He appeared in two feature films (The Love Bug and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo), as well as a short-lived Herbie television series produced in 1982, and the made-for-TV movie The Love Bug in 1997.
Jones' other film credits included Jailhouse Rock, Never So Few, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Born Again, Beethoven and Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero. He also appeared in stage productions, like There Was a Little Girl, Into the Light, and most notably Company.
In 1995, he was honored as a Disney Legend.
Jones died on September 1, 2015, at the age of 84 after suffering from Parkinson's disease.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Role
1965	That Darn Cat! 	Zeke Kelso
1966	The Ugly Dachshund 	Mark Garrison
1967	Monkeys, Go Home! 	Hank Dussard
1968	Blackbeard's Ghost 	Steve Walker
1968	The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit 	Fred Bolton
1968	The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show 	Himself - Narrator
1969	The Love Bug 	Jim DouglasHippie
1971	The Million Dollar Duck 	Professor Albert Dooley
1972	Snowball Express 	Johnny Baxter
1976	The Shaggy D.A. 	Wilby Daniels
1977	Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo 	Jim Douglas
1978	Mickey's 50 	Himself
1982	Kraft Salutes Walt Disney World's 10th Anniversary	Mr. Lane
1982	Herbie, the Love Bug 	Jim Douglas
1995	The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes 	Dean Webster Carlson
1997	That Darn Cat 	Mr. Flint
1997	The Love Bug 	Jim Douglas
==Roles==
8905-19202.gif|Zeke Kelso(That Darn Cat! (1965 film))
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Steve Walker - Blackbeard's Ghost.jpg|Steve Walker(Blackbeard's Ghost)
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Dean Jones in the computer wore tennis shoes 1995.JPG|Webster Carlson(The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes)
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==Gallery==
Dean jones in the mickey mouse anniversary show.JPG|Jones in The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show
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==Trivia==
*He was considered for the role of Tom Piper in Babes in Toyland, but the role went to Tommy Sands.
==External links==
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