Disney brilliant Dean Jones, ‘The Love Bug’ star, dies at 84, Dean Jones, whose adolescent acceptable looks and all-American address fabricated him Disney’s admired adolescent amateur for such blithe films as “That Darn Cat!” and “The Love Bug,” has died of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 84.
He died Monday in Los Angeles, Jones’ arranger Richard Hoffman said Wednesday.
Jones’ continued affiliation with The Walt Disney Co. began afterwards he accustomed an abrupt alarm from Walt Disney himself, who accepted his plan on the TV appearance “Ensign O’Toole,” acquainted it had “some acceptable closing sequences.” Jones, himself a above Navy man, played the appellation role in the 1962 sitcom.
Jones puzzled over Disney’s acknowledgment until it occurred to him that “Ensign O’Toole” preceded Disney’s own Sunday night appearance on NBC, and he accomplished Disney apparently alone watched anniversary episode’s ending.
Two years later, Jones heard from Disney again, calling this time to action him a role in “That Darn Cat!” adverse ingénue Hayley Mills. His FBI abettor Zeke Kelso follows a crime-solving cat that leads him to a brace of coffer robbers.
Released in 1965, it would the aboriginal of 10 Disney films Jones would make, a lot of of them in the abnormal vein.
“I see something in them that is authentic form. Just entertainment. No preaching,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “We’re consistently searching for agreeable acceptation but maybe humans just like to be entertained.”
“The Love Bug” (1969) was the a lot of acknowledged of the genre, with Jones arena a disturbing race-driver who acquires a Volkswagen that wins contest for him. The Bug, called Herbie, has hidden animal traits, and if it feels unappreciated it disappears. Jones have to accomplishment Herbie from the easily of his abominable battling and affair the car an acknowledgment afore it wins the big chase for him.
After “The Love Bug,” Jones alternate to the stage, acceptable the advance role of Robert in “Company,” Stephen Sondheim’s now-classic agreeable about conjugal angst, Manhattan-style. He withdrew from the 1970 assembly afterwards a abbreviate time, citation ancestors problems, but he is heard on the Grammy-winning Broadway casting album.
He had in fact started his career as a accompanist afore traveling on to arise in a cord of mostly forgettable films throughout the 1950s. A notable barring was 1957’s “Jailhouse Rock,” one of Elvis Presley’s best-remembered vehicles, in which Jones had a baby role as a disc jockey.
In 1960, Jones fabricated his Broadway admission with Jane Fonda in “There Was a Little Girl,” arena Fonda’s admirer in a brief ball about the abduction of a adolescent woman.
He had bigger luck on Broadway afterwards in 1960, if he appeared in the hit ball “Under the Yum Yum Tree.” Sparring with Gig Young, who played a comically atrocious character, Jones had “the appropriate alloy of adulthood and lightness,” The New York Times wrote.
He alternate to Hollywood to accomplish the blur adaptation of “Under the Yum Yum Tree” and to brilliant in television’s “Ensign O’Toole” from 1962 to 1964. He aswell reteamed with Fonda for the blur adaptation of a animated date comedy, “Any Wednesday.”
It was in Disney’s affable ancestors comedies, however, that Jones absolutely hit his stride. Walt Disney himself died in 1966, but the flat and its appearance of blur lived on.
In “Monkeys, Go Home,” Jones approved to advise four monkeys to aces grapes at a French acreage he inherited. In “Million Dollar Duck,” he was a scientist with a avoid that began laying aureate eggs afterwards accepting abolished with radiation.
He alternate to the Disney flat in 1977 for one added film, “Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo.”
Twenty years later, he had abate locations in the accommodate of “That Darn Cat” and the TV adaptation of “The Love Bug.”
He formed consistently into his 70s, actualization generally on TV and in films. His afterwards credits included “St. John in Exile,” ‘’Beethoven” and “Other People’s Money.”
In 1969, he was host of a TV array show, “What’s It All About, World?” But he said carrying jokes, actor ball style, was not absolutely his forte. “My bag is acting or accepting into an agreeable bearings and again administration my amusement,” he told the Times. “I can faculty a bearings or a appearance abundant bigger than I can faculty a line.”
Dean Carroll Jones larboard his hometown of Decatur, Alabama, at 15, acknowledging himself by acrimonious affection and acid balk until he landed a job as a accompanist in a New Orleans nightclub. If the club closed, he alternate to Decatur to accomplishment top school.
After belief articulation at Asbury University in Kentucky, he spent four years in the Navy. Soon afterwards his release, he was active by MGM, and it appeared for a time that he was accepting clean-cut as a accessible almsman to James Dean.
Jones affiliated Mae Entwisle, a onetime Miss San Diego, in 1954, and the brace had two daughters, Carol and Deanna. He and his additional wife, Lory, had a son, Michael.
Over the advance of his career, he’d arise in 46 films and 5 Broadway shows. In 1995, Jones was accustomed by his longtime administration with a atom in the Disney Legends Hall of Fame.
Besides Lory, his wife of 42 years, and his children, Jones is survived by eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He died Monday in Los Angeles, Jones’ arranger Richard Hoffman said Wednesday.
Jones’ continued affiliation with The Walt Disney Co. began afterwards he accustomed an abrupt alarm from Walt Disney himself, who accepted his plan on the TV appearance “Ensign O’Toole,” acquainted it had “some acceptable closing sequences.” Jones, himself a above Navy man, played the appellation role in the 1962 sitcom.
Two years later, Jones heard from Disney again, calling this time to action him a role in “That Darn Cat!” adverse ingénue Hayley Mills. His FBI abettor Zeke Kelso follows a crime-solving cat that leads him to a brace of coffer robbers.
Released in 1965, it would the aboriginal of 10 Disney films Jones would make, a lot of of them in the abnormal vein.
“I see something in them that is authentic form. Just entertainment. No preaching,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “We’re consistently searching for agreeable acceptation but maybe humans just like to be entertained.”
“The Love Bug” (1969) was the a lot of acknowledged of the genre, with Jones arena a disturbing race-driver who acquires a Volkswagen that wins contest for him. The Bug, called Herbie, has hidden animal traits, and if it feels unappreciated it disappears. Jones have to accomplishment Herbie from the easily of his abominable battling and affair the car an acknowledgment afore it wins the big chase for him.
After “The Love Bug,” Jones alternate to the stage, acceptable the advance role of Robert in “Company,” Stephen Sondheim’s now-classic agreeable about conjugal angst, Manhattan-style. He withdrew from the 1970 assembly afterwards a abbreviate time, citation ancestors problems, but he is heard on the Grammy-winning Broadway casting album.
He had in fact started his career as a accompanist afore traveling on to arise in a cord of mostly forgettable films throughout the 1950s. A notable barring was 1957’s “Jailhouse Rock,” one of Elvis Presley’s best-remembered vehicles, in which Jones had a baby role as a disc jockey.
In 1960, Jones fabricated his Broadway admission with Jane Fonda in “There Was a Little Girl,” arena Fonda’s admirer in a brief ball about the abduction of a adolescent woman.
He had bigger luck on Broadway afterwards in 1960, if he appeared in the hit ball “Under the Yum Yum Tree.” Sparring with Gig Young, who played a comically atrocious character, Jones had “the appropriate alloy of adulthood and lightness,” The New York Times wrote.
He alternate to Hollywood to accomplish the blur adaptation of “Under the Yum Yum Tree” and to brilliant in television’s “Ensign O’Toole” from 1962 to 1964. He aswell reteamed with Fonda for the blur adaptation of a animated date comedy, “Any Wednesday.”
It was in Disney’s affable ancestors comedies, however, that Jones absolutely hit his stride. Walt Disney himself died in 1966, but the flat and its appearance of blur lived on.
In “Monkeys, Go Home,” Jones approved to advise four monkeys to aces grapes at a French acreage he inherited. In “Million Dollar Duck,” he was a scientist with a avoid that began laying aureate eggs afterwards accepting abolished with radiation.
He alternate to the Disney flat in 1977 for one added film, “Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo.”
Twenty years later, he had abate locations in the accommodate of “That Darn Cat” and the TV adaptation of “The Love Bug.”
He formed consistently into his 70s, actualization generally on TV and in films. His afterwards credits included “St. John in Exile,” ‘’Beethoven” and “Other People’s Money.”
In 1969, he was host of a TV array show, “What’s It All About, World?” But he said carrying jokes, actor ball style, was not absolutely his forte. “My bag is acting or accepting into an agreeable bearings and again administration my amusement,” he told the Times. “I can faculty a bearings or a appearance abundant bigger than I can faculty a line.”
Dean Carroll Jones larboard his hometown of Decatur, Alabama, at 15, acknowledging himself by acrimonious affection and acid balk until he landed a job as a accompanist in a New Orleans nightclub. If the club closed, he alternate to Decatur to accomplishment top school.
After belief articulation at Asbury University in Kentucky, he spent four years in the Navy. Soon afterwards his release, he was active by MGM, and it appeared for a time that he was accepting clean-cut as a accessible almsman to James Dean.
Jones affiliated Mae Entwisle, a onetime Miss San Diego, in 1954, and the brace had two daughters, Carol and Deanna. He and his additional wife, Lory, had a son, Michael.
Over the advance of his career, he’d arise in 46 films and 5 Broadway shows. In 1995, Jones was accustomed by his longtime administration with a atom in the Disney Legends Hall of Fame.
Besides Lory, his wife of 42 years, and his children, Jones is survived by eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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