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F. Richard Jones

Dick Jones / Fred R. Jones / Richard Jones

Date of birth (location)

7 September 1893
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Date of death (details)

14 December 1930
Hollywood, California, USA.

 

Mini biography

One of the moving forces of early American silent comedy, F. Richard Jones made dozens of hilarious two-reel comedies for Mack Sennett in the mid-teens and early 1920s, featuring such stars as Louise Fazenda, Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy and Ben Turpin. He then graduated to feature films, first with Sennett and then with other producers and studios. Not just a comedy director, Jones proved he could adeptly handle romance stories and adventure epics with equal ease. His last film, the action/mystery picture Bulldog Drummond (1929), was also his only sound film, but it stands as a superior example of the genre.

Director

Bulldog Drummond (1929) Someone to Love (1928) The Water Hole (1928) The Big Killing (1928) The Gaucho (1927) The Way of All Pants (1927) (supervising) Anything Once! (1927) The Nickel-Hopper (1926) Moonlight and Noses (1925) (supervising) Little Robinson Corkscrew (1924) The First 100 Years (1924) The Extra Girl (1923) The Shriek of Araby (1923) Suzanna (1923) The Country Flapper (1922) The Crossroads of New York (1922) Gymnasium Jim (1922) Step Forward (1922) On Patrol (1922) Molly O' (1921) The Ghost in the Garret (1921) Love, Honor and Behave! (1920) (as Richard Jones) Flying Pat (1920) Down on the Farm (1920/I) (as Richard Jones) Gee Whiz (1920) The Speakeasy (1920) His Last False Step (1919) Up in Alf's Place (1919) Sleuths (1919) The Dentist (1919) Trying to Get Along (1919) Love's False Faces (1919) Reilly's Wash Day (1919) The Village Smithy (1919) Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919) (as Richard Jones) ... aka The Kaiser's Last Squeal (USA) Never Too Old (1919) The Foolish Age (1919) Her First Mistake (1918) Mickey (1918) She Loved Him Plenty (1918) Two Tough Tenderfeet (1918) The Battle Royal (1918) Saucy Madeline (1918) It Pays to Exercise (1918) Lost: A Cook (1917) His Uncle Dudley (1917) She Needed a Doctor (1917) Pills of Peril (1916) Her Marble Heart (1916) A Love Riot (1916) The Judge (1916) His Hereafter (1916) Her Painted Hero (1915) A Game Old Knight (1915) (as Dick Jones) Those Bitter Sweets (1915) That Springtime Feeling (1915) A Rascal's Foolish Way (1915) ... aka A Polished Villain Only a Farmer's Daughter (1914)

Supervising Director

Galloping Ghosts (1928) (supervising director) Why Girls Say No (1927) (supervising director) Should Men Walk Home? (1927) (supervising director) Two-Time Mama (1927) (supervising director) On the Front Page (1926) (supervising director) Be Your Age (1926) (supervising director) Raggedy Rose (1926) (supervising director) Get 'Em Young (1926) (supervising director) Tell 'Em Nothing (1926) (supervising director) Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926) (supervising director) Bromo and Juliet (1926) (supervising director) Should Husbands Pay? (1926) (supervising director) Crazy Like a Fox (1926) (supervising director) Along Came Auntie (1926) (supervising director) Mighty Like a Moose (1926) (supervising director) Long Fliv the King (1926) (supervising director) Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926) (supervising director) Madame Mystery (1926) (supervising director) Dog Shy (1926) (supervising director) Wife Tamers (1926) (supervising director) Dizzy Daddies (1926) (supervising director) Mama Behave (1926) (supervisor) Wandering Papas (1926) (supervising director) ... aka Enough to Do (UK: short version) Charley My Boy (1926) (supervising director) ... aka Charlie, My Boy (UK) Starvation Blues (1925) (supervising director) Should Sailors Marry? (1925) (supervising director) The Caretaker's Daughter (1925) (supervising director) Unfriendly Enemies (1925) (supervising director) Innocent Husbands (1925) (supervising director) Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925) (supervising director) Chasing the Chaser (1925) (supervising director) Isn't Life Terrible? (1925) (supervising director) Wild Papa (1925) (supervising director) Scarem Much (1924) (supervisor) Shanghaied Lovers (1924) (supervisor)

Producer

Ten Years Old (1927) (supervising producer) One Hour Married (1927) (supervising producer) Seeing the World (1927) (supervising producer) Bring Home the Turkey (1927) (supervising producer) Telling Whoppers (1926) (supervising producer) War Feathers (1926) (supervising producer) The Fourth Alarm (1926) (supervising producer) Thundering Fleas (1926) (supervising producer) Shivering Spooks (1926) (supervising producer) Uncle Tom's Uncle (1926) (producer) Baby Clothes (1926) (supervising producer) Monkey Business (1926) (supervising producer) Buried Treasure (1926) (supervising producer) Good Cheer (1926) (supervising producer) One Wild Ride (1925) (supervising producer) Your Own Back Yard (1925) (supervising producer) Mary, Queen of Tots (1925) (supervising producer) Boys Will Be Joys (1925) (producer) All Night Long (1924) (supervising producer) The Cat's Meow (1924) (supervising producer) The Hollywood Kid (1924) (supervising producer) Inbad the Sailor (1923) (supervising producer) The Daredevil (1923) (supervising producer) Asleep at the Switch (1923) (supervising producer)

Production Manager

Cupid's Boots (1925) (production manager) Feet of Mud (1924) (production supervisor) The   Cannon Ball Express (1924) (production supervisor) Flickering Youth (1924) (production supervisor) Be Reasonable (1921) (production manager) By Heck (1921) (production manager)

Writer
No Man's Law (1927) (story); Flying Pat (1920) (scenario) His Hereafter (1916) (story) A Game Old Knight (1915) (scenario) Those Bitter Sweets (1915) (scenario)

Actor

Saucy Madeline (1918)