L. Q. Jones was an American actor and director. Some of the films he made an appearance in are Sam Peckinpah’s flicks Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1970), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), The Wild Bunch (1969), Major Dundee (1965), Ride the High Country (1962).
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He was born with the name Justus Ellis McQueen Jr. on the 19th of August 1927, in Beaumont, in Southeastern Texas. He was born to Jessie Paralee his mother and railroad worker Justus Ellis McQueen Sr. his father. On the 9th of July 2022, Jones died at his home in Hollywood Hills, California, at the age of 94.
He stands at a height of six feet and zero inches tall.
In the year 1955 movie Battle Cry, Jones made his acting debut as Justus McQueen, who was his real name at the time.
But the name of his character in that movie was “L. Q. Jones,” a moniker he loved and chose to use as his stage name for all of his future acting assignments.
He appeared in three episodes of Clint Walker’s ABC/Warner Brothers western series Cheyenne in 1955 as “Smitty Smith,” which was the first hour-long western on network television.
He made multiple cinematic appearances during the 1960s and 1970s. He joined Sam Peckinpah’s stock company of performers, appearing in his Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1970) and The Wild Bunch (1969) films as well as the Klondike trilogy (1960–1961), Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), and The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1969). (1973).
