Post by sliderocker on Jul 12, 2022 9:34:58 GMT -5
If you didn't know the name L.Q. Jones, you knew his amazing work in almost every western TV series ever made, and in over 60 movies he made over the course of his career. His first movie role was in the 1955 movie Battle Cry, whose character's name he played he took as his stage name. He was born Justace Ellis McQueen Jr, no relation to Steve McQueen, in Beaumont, Texas and was a college classmate of actor Fess Parker, who motivated Jones to become an actor after brief careers at playing professional baseball and football, as a stand up comedian and a rancher in Nicaraugua.In college, Jones studied business, law and journalism.
But, it was acting which would be his calling. He was a member of Sam Peckinpah's stock company and appeared in five of Peckinpah's movies, including Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. He considered Peckinpah both a genius and an idiot, saying if Peckinpah could mess something up, he would do it, all the while still praising him as a genius. Jones also had praise for Martin Scorsese, who directed Scorses in Casino, in which Scorsese wrote his own dialogue for the movie, because Scorsese didn't know how to write Texan.
Jones appeared in three of Elvis's movies, an uncredited role as Pardee Fleming in Love Me Tender; he received screen scredit for his role as Tom Howard in Flaming Star and co-star billing in his last Elvis movie, as Bronc Hoverty in Stay Away, Joe. Jones was the only male actor to appear in three of Elvis's movies.
In 1975, Jones took Harlan Ellison's story A Boy and His Dog and turned it into a movie. He wrote the script, and produced (with actor-producer Alvy Moore, of "Kimall, Hank Kimball" from Green Acres fame) and directed the movie. It became a cult classic. Jones had also co-produced and written The Brotherhood of Satan In typical Hollywood style, A Boy and His Dog has been remade and is currently in pre-production. The remake uses Jones's story for the movie.
Jones's last movie role was also a movie in which he debuted as a singer, A Prairie Home Companion: The Movie. He played singer Chuck Akers, who is not in the best of health and who will be paid a visit by an angel, played by Virginia Madsen. In the movie, and on the soundtrack, he sings A.P. Carter's You've Been A Friend to Me. He was 76 years old at the time.
www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/lq-jones-actor-in-sam-peckinpah-classics-and-director-of-a-boy-and-his-dog-dies-at-94/ar-AAZoFDG
www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/2017/08/15/turning-90-l-q-jones-reflects-hollywood-journey/568330001/
But, it was acting which would be his calling. He was a member of Sam Peckinpah's stock company and appeared in five of Peckinpah's movies, including Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. He considered Peckinpah both a genius and an idiot, saying if Peckinpah could mess something up, he would do it, all the while still praising him as a genius. Jones also had praise for Martin Scorsese, who directed Scorses in Casino, in which Scorsese wrote his own dialogue for the movie, because Scorsese didn't know how to write Texan.
Jones appeared in three of Elvis's movies, an uncredited role as Pardee Fleming in Love Me Tender; he received screen scredit for his role as Tom Howard in Flaming Star and co-star billing in his last Elvis movie, as Bronc Hoverty in Stay Away, Joe. Jones was the only male actor to appear in three of Elvis's movies.
In 1975, Jones took Harlan Ellison's story A Boy and His Dog and turned it into a movie. He wrote the script, and produced (with actor-producer Alvy Moore, of "Kimall, Hank Kimball" from Green Acres fame) and directed the movie. It became a cult classic. Jones had also co-produced and written The Brotherhood of Satan In typical Hollywood style, A Boy and His Dog has been remade and is currently in pre-production. The remake uses Jones's story for the movie.
Jones's last movie role was also a movie in which he debuted as a singer, A Prairie Home Companion: The Movie. He played singer Chuck Akers, who is not in the best of health and who will be paid a visit by an angel, played by Virginia Madsen. In the movie, and on the soundtrack, he sings A.P. Carter's You've Been A Friend to Me. He was 76 years old at the time.
www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/lq-jones-actor-in-sam-peckinpah-classics-and-director-of-a-boy-and-his-dog-dies-at-94/ar-AAZoFDG
www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/2017/08/15/turning-90-l-q-jones-reflects-hollywood-journey/568330001/