Buck Jones

Acting

Buck Jones

Born 1891-12-11 · Vincennes, Indiana, USA

Buck Jones was an American actor, known for his work in many popular Western movies. In his early film appearances, he was credited as Charles Jones.

Acting credits

The Fighting Code poster
9.0

The death of a young woman's father puts a cowboy on the trail of a killer.

The Fighting Code

1933

Hello Trouble poster
7.0

After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.

Hello Trouble

1932

Sundown Rider poster
9.0

Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.

Sundown Rider

1932

Forbidden Trails poster
5.6

Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked saloon owner who has the same idea.

Forbidden Trails

1941

Hollywood Round-Up poster
5.3

While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.

Hollywood Round-Up

1937

Unmarried poster
4.8

Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and raising him as their own son.

Unmarried

1939

Roughshod poster
10.0

A ranch foreman helps his fiancé--the ranch's owner--who is having problems with a gang of cattle rustlers. Her girlfriend from back East is visiting her and has fallen for a cowboy who is secretly a member of the rustlers. He tells this to the gang's leader, who plans to use the owner's friend in a scheme to gain control of the ranch.

Roughshod

1922

Sunset Sprague poster
8.0

When Sunset Sprague saves Calico Barnes from a bandit, the two men become friends. Barnes is heading out to protect his niece, Rose Loring, whose father was murdered right after his mine struck gold. Sprague goes to help and finds himself up against the villainous Mace Dennison.

Sunset Sprague

1920

Square Shooter poster
8.0

Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, because he is suspicious of his foreman Sam Curtis' activities, decides to proceed incognito. Disguised as Harold Montague, his partner's son, Chick works among the ranch hands and discovers that Curtis is rustling cattle and is responsible for driving Barbara Hampton and her aunt from their home.

Square Shooter

1920

Sandflow poster
9.0

Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west to compensate every rancher who was cheated by his dad.

Sandflow

1937

Headin' East poster
10.0

A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.

Headin' East

1937

The Texas Ranger poster
9.0

Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men turn outlaw. The Rangers send Logan, and posing as a cowhand he joins her gang. But Nevada eventually remembers him as a Ranger and they set out to hang him.

The Texas Ranger

1931

Pardon My Nerve! poster
8.0

A drifter falls for the daughter of a rancher, an alcoholic old coot whose ranch is on some very valuable land. When the old man is found murdered, the drifter is accused of the crime. He didn't do it, but he has to find who the real killer is and clear his name.

Pardon My Nerve!

1922

The Speed Maniac poster
7.0

Billy Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world. But he's barely off the ferryboat before he gets waylaid by a little newsboy and the boy's pugilist father, "Knockout" McClusky.

The Speed Maniac

1919

Empty Saddles poster
10.0

Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch.

Empty Saddles

1936

The Crimson Trail poster
8.0

A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.

The Crimson Trail

1935

Outlawed Guns poster
8.0

Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers. When Babe gets mixed up with outlaws, Reece loyally takes the rap. Eventually Babe pays for his recklessness with his life, but not before leading Reece to the film's head bad guy, gambler Jack Keeler.

Outlawed Guns

1935

High Speed poster
5.0

A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.

High Speed

1932

Firebrand Trevison poster
8.0

A ranch owner runs afoul of a land grabber, and both of them are in love with the same girl, the daughter of a railroad owner.

Firebrand Trevison

1920

For the Service poster
10.0

Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy, the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy. Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard and his gang.

For the Service

1936

The Range Feud poster
5.2

Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.

The Range Feud

1931

Straight from the Shoulder poster
10.0

Played mostly for laughs, this silent Western featured the"The Mediator," a drifter who manages to restore peace both within a family and between miners and their powerful employer.

Straight from the Shoulder

1921

Cupid's Fireman poster
5.0

McGee becomes a fireman over the protests of his mother, who doesn't want to see her son sacrifice his life the way his father did. When she dies, McGee adopts little Elizabeth Stevens, who takes care of him instead of vice versa. Along the way he meets Agnes Evans, a chorus girl, and falls in love.

Cupid's Fireman

1923

The Red Rider poster
7.0

"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.

The Red Rider

1934

Behind the camera

Sandflow poster
9.0

Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west to compensate every rancher who was cheated by his dad.

Sandflow

1937

Empty Saddles poster
10.0

Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch.

Empty Saddles

1936

For the Service poster
10.0

Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy, the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy. Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard and his gang.

For the Service

1936

Ride 'Em Cowboy poster
10.0

A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.

Ride 'Em Cowboy

1936

Left-Handed Law poster
7.0

An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.

Left-Handed Law

1937

Boss of Lonely Valley poster
7.0

A rancher attempts to find the villain behind a land-stealing operation.

Boss of Lonely Valley

1937

Law for Tombstone poster
8.0

A stagecoach line hires an agent to stop a string of robberies of gold shipments.

Law for Tombstone

1937

Black Aces poster
5.6

When Len Stoddard wins Ted Ames ranch in a poker game he sends his brother Jake along with Ted to take over the ranch. When Jake is found murdered he offers a reward for the capture of Ted who now is believed to be a member of the Black Aces gang. Ted finds the probable location of the gang's hideout and sets out to clear himself.

Black Aces

1937

The Boss Rider of Gun Creek poster
6.5

A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.

The Boss Rider of Gun Creek

1936

Sudden Bill Dorn poster
9.0

Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over the ranch. But Bill and Kent's niece Lorna have taken possession. When it appears Bundy is attracted to Lorna, his jealous girl friend has men destroy the ranch and the explosion helps uncover the gold vein.

Sudden Bill Dorn

1937