Buck Jones
Birth Name:
Charles Frederick Gebhart
Birth Place:
Vincennes, Indiana, United States
Profession
Actor, Producer, Director, Writer
Fast Facts
- A Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, Calif․, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him in 1997
- The infamous Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942 claimed his life, along with 491 others
- Started his film career making $5 a day as an extra in westerns
- Before acting, his jobs included working as a real-life cowboy and serving as a test driver for race cars
- In his youth, he was a soldier and an aviator for the U․S․ government
- Starred in many B-western motion pictures in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s
- Appeared in an average of eight pictures a year for 20 years, often atop his white horse Silver
- Endorsed such products as Post Grape-Nuts Flakes cereal
- Daisy released a Buck Jones model pump action air rifle which had a compass and a sundial in the stock, features which author Jean Shepherd later incorrectly attributed to the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun in his film "A Christmas Story․"
- There were an estimated 5,000,000 young members of the Buck Jones Rangers Club