L.Q. Jones, a veteran character actor whose vocation spanned 7 a long time, died Saturday of organic causes at his property in the Hollywood Hills. He was 94 decades previous.
Jones’ demise was confirmed by his grandson, Erté deGarces. DeGarces shared that Jones died surrounded by his loved ones.
Born Justice Ellis McQueen on Aug. 19, 1927 in Beaumont, Texas, Jones attended the University of Texas at Austin wherever he fulfilled Sue Lewis, his wife of 23 several years. The two divorced in the 1970s.
McQueen took on his stage identify, L.Q. Jones, with his initially movie job in the 1955 Raoul Walsh film “Battle Cry.” Jones would don the title via his full monitor acting vocation. His most modern switch came in 2006 with Robert Altman’s remaining film “A Prairie Residence Companion.”
Jones collaborated with several of the most established administrators of mid-20th century Hollywood, which includes Walsh, Don Siegel for “An Annapolis Story” and Mervyn LeRoy for “Toward the Not known.” He was also a standard supporting participant in Sam Peckinpah’s action-weighty westerns, with roles in “The Wild Bunch,” “Ride the High Country” and “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.” In the vicinity of the end of the century, Jones also took roles in Martin Campbell’s “The Mask of Zorro,” Roland Emmerich’s “The Patriot” and Martin Scorsese’s “Casino.”
Along with accruing 60 monitor performing credits in movie over his job, Jones was a typical in the planet of Tv. He largely appeared in western serials, this sort of as “Gunsmoke,” “The Virginian” and “Bonanza.”
L.Q. Jones on the established of the collection “Cheyenne” in the 1950’s.
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Jones’ career also prolonged over and above monitor acting, creating four independent capabilities in excess of his life. He produced, directed and wrote the 1975 function “A Boy and His Canine,” a submit-apocalyptic black comedy about a teen and his telepathic pet who battle for survival in the southwestern U.S. of 2024 as nuclear fallout grips the globe. The film stars a young Don Johnson and Jason Robards, Jones’ fellow Peckinpah alum. “A Boy and His Dog” has garnered the standing of a cult common above the many years, with Jones stating that director George Miller cited it as an influence for his “Mad Max” collection.
Jones is survived by his sons, Randy McQueen and Steve Marshall, and by his favourite daughter, Mindy McQueen.
