Dean Jones (actor)

Dean Jones (born January 25, 1931 in Decatur, Alabama) is an American actor. He served in the US Navy during the Korean War, after which he worked at the Bird Cage Theater at Knott's Berry Farm, California.

He was notoriously replaced (by Larry Kert) in Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical Company after just two weeks, having already recorded the cast album. He also appeared in many Disney films in the 1960s and 1970s, including, That Darn Cat! (1965), The Ugly Dachshund (1966), Blackbeard's Ghost (1968), and Snowball Express (1972). Jones' signature Disney role would be that of race car driver Jim Douglass in the highly successful The Love Bug (1969) series. Jones appeared in three of the six feature films, and a short-lived television series produced in 1982. He also appeared as the evil vet Herman Varnick in the popular family film Beethoven in 1992.

Jones became a devout born-again Christian in 1973/1974 and has since appeared in several Christian movies. He is semi-retired, and currently resides in California.

Appeared on Broadway in:

There Was a Little Girl - 1960
Under the Yum-Yum Tree - 1960
Company - 1970
Into the Light - 1986
Company (revival) - 1993

Appeared on film in:

Handle with Care - 1955
Tea and Sympathy - 1956
Jailhouse Rock - 1957
Under the Yum Yum Tree - 1963
The New Interns - 1964
Two on a Guillotine - 1965
That Darn Cat! - 1965 (also appears in 1997 remake)
The Ugly Dachshund - 1966
Any Wednesday - 1966
Monkeys, Go Home! - 1967
Blackbeard's Ghost - 1968
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit - 1968
The Love Bug - 1969
The Million Dollar Duck - 1971
*Snowball Express - 1972
Shaggy D.A. - 1976
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo - 1977
Born Again - 1978
St. John in Exile - 1986
Beethoven - 1992
Clear and Present Danger - 1994
That Darn Cat - 1997

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