L. Q. Jones (August 19, 1927 – July 9, 2022) was an American character actor and film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah. 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia CLR

Filmography

• 2006A Prairie Home Companion — Chuck Akers
• 2001Route 666 — Sheriff Bob Conaway
• 1999The Jack Bull — Henry Ballard
• 1998The Mask of Zorro — Three-Fingered Jack
• 1998The Patriot — Frank
• 1997The Edge — Styles
• In Cold Blood
• 1996Tornado! — Ephram Thorne
• 1995Casino — Pat Webb
• 1994Lightning Jack — Sheriff
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Billy Selkirk
• Renegade — Nathan Wayne
• 1991The Legend Of Grizzly Adams — Reno
• 1989River of Death — Hiller
• 1988Bulletproof — Sgt. O'Rourke
• 1983Lone Wolf McQuade — Dakota
• 1983Sacred Ground — Tolbert Coleman
• The A-Team — Chuck Danford
• The Yellow Rose
• Matt Houston
• 1982The Beast Within — Sheriff Pool
• 1982Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann — Ben Potter
• Voyagers!
• Riker — Massey
• The Fall Guy — Sheriff Dwight LeClerc
• Enos
• Wild Times — Wild Bill Hickock
• 1979Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider — Floyd
• The Sacketts — Belden
• 1978Colorado C.I. — Hoyt Gunnison
• 1978Standing Tall — Nate Rackley
• The Eddie Capra Mysteries
• The Runaways
• Vega$
• CHiPs — Hoskins
• How the West Was Won — Batlin
• Rafferty
• The Incredible Hulk — Director
• 1976Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free — Sheriff Tadlock
• Charlie's Angels — Sgt. Billings, Dan Jarvis, Burdette, Sam Mason
• 1976Mother, Jugs & Speed — Davey
• 1975A Boy and His Dog — Porn Stud, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan — Roy Ralstop
• Matt Helm
• 1975White Line Fever — Buck Wessle
• 1975Winterhawk — Gates
• 1974Manhunter — Charles 'Crutch' Shanks
• Movin' On
• 1974Mrs. Sundance — Charles Siringo
• 1974The Strange and Deadly Occurrence — Sheriff Berlinger
• 1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid — Black Harris
• The Magician — Johnson
• 197243: The Richard Petty Story — Ed Koler
• Assignment: Vienna — Slim Warfield
• Delphi Bureau — Cole
• 1972Fireball Forward — Maj. Larkin
• Kung Fu — Sgt. Straight, Maj. Clarke Bealson
• 1972The Bravos — Ben Lawler
• Alias Smith and Jones
• Cannon
• Columbo — Gun Dealer
• 1971The Brotherhood of Satan — Sheriff, Writer, Producer
• 1971The Hunting Party — Hog Warren
• McCloud
• 1970The Ballad of Cable Hogue — Taggart
• 1970The McMasters — Russel
• Hawaii Five-O — Col. Lew Cardell
• 1969The Naked Witch — Executive Producer
• 1969The Wild Bunch — T.C
• 1968Hang 'em High — Loomis
• Lancer
• 1968Stay Away, Joe — Bronc Hoverty
• 1968The Counterfeit Killer — Hotel Clerk
• Cimarron Strip
• Hondo
• Ironside — Lt. Mark Cardiff, Harry Ashton
• ABC Stage 67 — Deputy
• 1966Noon Wine — Deputy
• Pistols 'n' Petticoats
• Branded
• 1965Major Dundee — Arthur Hadley
• The Big Valley — Cort, Curtis, Earl Vaughn, Hutch, Gus Vandiver
• The F.B.I. — Wesley Davis, Al Tanner
• 1964Apache Rifles — Mike Greer
• 1964Iron Angel — Buttons
• 1964The Devil's Bedroom — (as Justus McQueen), Director
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Ernie Packer
• 1963Showdown — Foray
• 1962Hell Is for Heroes — Supply Sgt. Frazer
• 1962Ride the High Country — Sylvus Hammond
• The Virginian — Belden, Andy
• Ben Casey
• 1960Cimarron — Millis
• 1960Flaming Star — Tom Howard
• Route 66
• 1960Ten Who Dared — Billy Hawkins
• 1959Battle of the Coral Sea — Yeoman Halliday
• Black Saddle — Jack Shepherd
• 1959Hound-Dog Man — Dave Wilson
• Johnny Ringo — Billy Boy Jethro
• Laramie
• Lock-Up
• Rawhide — George Cornelius, Luke, Pee Jay Peters
• The Detectives
• The Rebel — Otis Rumph, Roy Shandell
• Tightrope — Earl Bell
• 1959Warlock — Fen Jiggs (uncredited)
• Wichita Town
• 1958Buchanan Rides Alone — Pecos Hill
• Jefferson Drum — Burdette
• Lawman — Ollie Earnshaw
• 1958The Naked and the Dead — Woodrow Wilson
• 1958The Young Lions — Pvt. Donnelly (uncredited)
• 1958Torpedo Run — 'Hash' Benson
• 1957Gunsight Ridge — Lazy Heart Ranch Hand
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Bill Renn - Cowboy, Hector
• 1957Men in War — Sgt. Davis
• 1957Operation Mad Ball — Ozark
• Perry Mason — Charles Barnaby, Edward Lewis
• Wagon Train — Lenny, Squirrel Charvanaugh
• 1956Between Heaven and Hell — Pvt. Kenny - Co. G
• 1956Love Me Tender — Pardee Fleming (uncredited)
• On Trial — Jedediah 'Jed' Boone
• 1956Santiago — Digger
• 1956Toward the Unknown — 2nd Lt. Sweeney
• 1955An Annapolis Story — Watson
• 1955Battle Cry — Pvt. L.Q. Jones
• Cheyenne — Smitty Smith
• Gunsmoke — Skinner, Brady, Wally, Kittridge, Nix, Sumner Pendleton, Gecko Ridley
• 1955Target Zero — Pvt. Felix O'Hara
• Annie Oakley — Ned Blane
• Lassie

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2024Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western — Self
• 2005Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah — Self
• 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self
• 1996The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage — Self
• 1993Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron — Self