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Dean Jones
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Spouse
'Lori Patrick' (1973 - ?)
'Mae Entwisle' (1954 - ?) (divorced); 2 daughters
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Trivia
Attended Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, in the early 1950s but did not graduate.
Known chiefly as one of Disney's two main stars in the 60s & 70s
A born-again Christian, Dean Jones has appeared successfully in the one-man show "Saint John in Exile," which he subsequently filmed.
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Amiable, lightweight leading man best known for his string of starring roles in Walt Disney films. A former blues singer, he made his film debut in Gaby and appeared in Somebody Up There Likes Me, Tea and Sympathy (all 1956), Designing Woman, Jailhouse Rock (both 1957), Imitation General (1958), Never So Few (1959), Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963), The New Interns (1964), and Two on a Guillotine (1965) before becoming house lead for the Disney studio, where he generally played second fiddle to clever animals or cars that drove themselves. His movies for Walt include That Darn Cat (1965), The Ugly Dachshund (1966), Monkeys, Go Home! (1967), Blackbeard's Ghost, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (both 1968), The Love Bug (1969), $1,000,000 Duck (1971), Snowball Express (1972), The Shaggy D.A (1976), and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977). (His reputation won him a similar vehicle away from Disney, Mr. Superinvisible in 1973.) In 1971 he created the leading role in Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical Company which at that point was an impressive departure for the actor. In 1978 Jones played convicted Watergate trickster Charles Colson in Born Again and claimed to have been spiritually renewed himself; he subsequently dropped out of show business to work in Christian organizations. Returning to acting on TV, he landed a major film role again in 1991's Other People's Money and delivered a solid performance. He was then cast, amusingly against type, as an evil veterinarian in the family comedy Beethoven (1992). His autobiography, "Under Running Laughter," was published in 1982. |  |
