L.Q. Jones
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.
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Filmography (136 Appearances)
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
A Prairie Home Companion
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Route 666
The Jack Bull
The Mask of Zorro
The Patriot
The Edge
In Cold Blood
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Tornado!
Casino
Lightning Jack
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Walker, Texas Ranger
Renegade
The Legend Of Grizzly Adams
River of Death
Bulletproof
The Yellow Rose
Lone Wolf McQuade
Sacred Ground
The A-Team
Voyagers!
Matt Houston
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
The Beast Within
The Fall Guy
Riker
Enos
Wild Times
The Sacketts
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
Vega$
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
Colorado C.I.
The Runaways
Standing Tall
The Incredible Hulk
CHiPs
Rafferty
How the West Was Won
Charlie's Angels
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
Winterhawk
Matt Helm
White Line Fever
A Boy and His Dog
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Movin' On
Manhunter
Mrs. Sundance
The Magician
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
43: The Richard Petty Story
Kung Fu
Delphi Bureau
Assignment: Vienna
Fireball Forward
The Bravos
Columbo
Cannon
The Brotherhood of Satan
The Hunting Party
Alias Smith and Jones
The McMasters
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
McCloud
The Wild Bunch
Lancer
Hawaii Five-O
The Counterfeit Killer
Hang 'em High
Stay Away, Joe
Hondo
Cimarron Strip
Ironside
Noon Wine
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
ABC Stage 67
The F.B.I.
The Big Valley
Major Dundee
Branded
Apache Rifles
The Devil's Bedroom
Iron Angel
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Showdown
The Virginian
Hell Is for Heroes
Ride the High Country
Ben Casey
Flaming Star
Cimarron
Ten Who Dared
Route 66
Hound-Dog Man
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Detectives
The Rebel
Johnny Ringo
Wichita Town
Lock-Up
Laramie
Tightrope
Warlock
Black Saddle
Rawhide
Torpedo Run
Lawman
The Naked and the Dead
Buchanan Rides Alone
Jefferson Drum
The Young Lions
Perry Mason
Wagon Train
Have Gun, Will Travel
Gunsight Ridge
Operation Mad Ball
Men in War
Love Me Tender
Between Heaven and Hell
Toward the Unknown
Santiago
Target Zero
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
An Annapolis Story
Battle Cry
Lassie
Annie Oakley