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Buck Jones
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Buck Jones

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1891 – 1942 · Vincennes, Indiana, USA · Active 1914–1976

Buck Jones, born Charles Jones, was an American actor who made his mark in the Western genre during the 1940s. He is best known for his role in The Gunman From Bodie (1941), where he embodies the rugged spirit of the American frontier. With a career that began in the silent film era, Jones transitioned into sound films, bringing a unique charisma to his performances. His work remains a significant part of the cult film conversation, particularly for fans of classic Westerns.

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The Gunman From Bodie

The Gunman From Bodie

1941 ★ 7.0
as Marshal Buck Roberts

The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is on hand as a cook. Roberts hopes his joining the gang will help bring them in.

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Career Highlights Top 6 by popularity · TMDB
Just Pals (1920)
Just Pals
1920
The Range Feud (1931)
The Range Feud
1931
Lazybones (1925)
Lazybones
1925
Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
Dawn on the Great Divide
1942
Forbidden Trails (1941)
Forbidden Trails
1941
Below the Border (1942)
Below the Border
1942

Filmography

181 credits
1970s 1 credit
1976
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch as (archive footage)
Movie ★ 8.5
1940s 12 credits
1942
Below the Border as Marshal Buck Roberts
Movie ★ 5.5
1942
Riders of the West as Marshal Buck Roberts
Movie ★ 6.5
1942
Ghost Town Law as Marshal Buck Roberts
Movie ★ 6.0
1942
Down Texas Way as U. S. Marshal Buck Roberts
Movie ★ 6.5
1942
West of the Law as Marshal Buck Roberts
Movie ★ 6.3
1942
Dawn on the Great Divide as Buck Roberts
Movie ★ 5.3
1941
Forbidden Trails as Marshal Buck Roberts
Movie ★ 5.6
1941
Arizona Bound as Buck Roberts
Movie ★ 4.2
1941
The Gunman From Bodie● as Marshal Buck Roberts
Movie ★ 5.3
1941
White Eagle as White Eagle
Movie ★ 7.0
1941
Riders of Death Valley as Tombstone
Movie ★ 6.8
1940
Wagons Westward as Sheriff Jim McDaniels
Movie ★ 6.5
1930s 64 credits
1939
Unmarried as Slag Bailey
Movie ★ 4.8
1938
The Overland Express as Buck Dawson
Movie ★ 7.0
1938
The Stranger from Arizona as Buck Weylan
Movie ★ 6.0
1938
Law of the Texan as Sergeant Buck Weaver - Texas Rangers
Movie ★ 8.0
1938
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 as Buck Jones
Movie ★ 6.0
1938
California Frontier as Buck Pearson
Movie ★ 9.0
1937
Law for Tombstone as Alamo Bowie
Movie ★ 8.0
1937
Sudden Bill Dorn as Bill Dorn
Movie ★ 9.0
1937
Hollywood Round-Up as Buck Kennedy
Movie ★ 5.3
1937
Smoke Tree Range as Lee Cary
Movie ★ 7.0
1937
Sandflow as Buck Hallett
Movie ★ 9.0
1937
Headin' East as Buck Benson
Movie ★ 10.0
1937
Black Aces as Ted Ames
Movie ★ 5.6
1937
Left-Handed Law as Alamo Bowie
Movie ★ 7.0
1937
Boss of Lonely Valley as Steve Hanson
Movie ★ 7.0
1936
Silverspurs as Jim Fentriss
Movie ★ 10.0
1936
The Cowboy and the Kid as Steve Davis
Movie ★ 8.0
1936
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek as Larry Day / Gary Elliott
Movie ★ 6.5
1936
The Phantom Rider as Buck Grant
Movie ★ 7.0
1936
Ride 'Em Cowboy as Jess Burns
Movie ★ 10.0
1936
For the Service as Buck O'Bryan
Movie ★ 10.0
1936
Empty Saddles as Buck Devlin
Movie ★ 10.0
1936
Sunset of Power as Cliff Lea
Movie ★ 8.0
1935
The Throwback as Buck Saunders
Movie ★ 7.0
1935
Outlawed Guns as Buck Rivers
Movie ★ 8.0
1935
Stone of Silver Creek as T. William Stone (as Charles Buck Jones)
Movie ★ 8.0
1935
The Crimson Trail as Billy Carter
Movie ★ 8.0
1935
Border Brigands as Sergeant Buck Barry, RCMP
Movie ★ 7.0
1935
The Ivory-Handled Gun as Buck Ward
Movie ★ 7.0
1935
The Roaring West as Montana Larkin
Movie ★ 10.0
1934
The Man Trailer as Track Ames aka Dan Lane
Movie ★ 10.0
1934
Rocky Rhodes as Rocky Rhodes
Movie ★ 8.0
1934
When a Man Sees Red as Buck Benson
Movie ★ 7.0
1934
The Fighting Ranger as Jim Houston (as Charles Buck Jones)
Movie ★ 6.7
1934
The Red Rider as 'Red' Davidson
Movie ★ 7.0
1933
The Fighting Code as Ben Halliday
Movie ★ 9.0
1933
Child of Manhattan as "Panama Canal" Kelley
Movie ★ 7.2
1933
The Thrill Hunter as Buck Crosby
Movie ★ 6.5
1933
Unknown Valley as Joe Gordon
Movie ★ 6.8
1933
Gordon of Ghost City as Buck Gordon
Movie ★ 6.5
1933
Treason as Jeff Connors, posing as Chet Dawson (as Charles Buck Jones)
Movie ★ 8.0
1933
The California Trail as Santa Fe Stewart
Movie ★ 7.5
1932
Hello Trouble as Jeff Douglas
Movie ★ 7.0
1932
Sundown Rider as Camp O'Neil
Movie ★ 9.0
1932
Forbidden Trail as Tom Devlin
Movie ★ 4.3
1932
South of the Rio Grande as Sergeant Carlos Olivarez
Movie ★ 7.5
1932
McKenna of the Mounted as Sergeant Tom McKenna
Movie ★ 10.0
1932
Ridin' for Justice as Buck Randall
Movie ★ 10.0
1932
White Eagle as White Eagle
Movie ★ 9.0
1932
High Speed as Bill Toomey
Movie ★ 5.0
1931
The Texas Ranger as Jim Logan - Texas Ranger
Movie ★ 9.0
1931
Branded as Cuthbert Chauncy Dale
Movie ★ 6.5
1931
The Range Feud as Sheriff Buck Gordon
Movie ★ 5.2
1931
Border Law as Jim Houston - Texas Ranger
Movie ★ 6.0
1931
Desert Vengeance as Jim Cardew
Movie ★ 10.0
1931
The Avenger as Joaquin "The Black Shadow" Murietta
Movie ★ 6.0
1931
One Man Law as Brand Thompson
Movie ★ 6.3
1931
The Fighting Sheriff as Sheriff Bob Terry
Movie ★ 10.0
1931
The Deadline as Buck Donlin (as Charles 'Buck' Jones)
Movie ★ 10.0
1930
The Lone Rider as Jim Lanning
Movie ★ 10.0
1930
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 as Buck Jones
Movie
1930
Shadow Ranch as Sim Baldwin
Movie ★ 6.5
1930
The Dawn Trail as Sheriff Larry Williams
Movie ★ 6.5
1930
Men Without Law as Buck Healy
Movie ★ 8.0
1920s 64 credits
1928
The Branded Sombrero as Starr Hallett
Movie ★ 7.0
1928
The Big Hop as Buck Bronson
Movie ★ 8.0
1927
Whispering Sage as Buck Kildare
Movie ★ 7.0
1927
Chain Lightning as Steve Lannon
Movie ★ 10.0
1927
Good as Gold as Buck Brady
Movie ★ 8.0
1927
Hills of Peril as Laramie
Movie ★ 10.0
1927
Blood Will Tell as Buck Peters
Movie ★ 7.0
1927
Black Jack as Phil Dolan
Movie ★ 9.0
1927
The War Horse as Buck Thomas
Movie ★ 9.0
1926
The Fighting Buckaroo as Larry Crawford
Movie ★ 7.0
1926
A Man Four-Square as Craig Norton
Movie ★ 9.0
1926
The Gentle Cyclone as Absolem Wales
Movie ★ 6.5
1926
The Flying Horseman as Mark Winton
Movie ★ 7.0
1926
30 Below Zero as Don Hathaway Jr.
Movie ★ 7.0
1926
Desert Valley as Fitzsmith
Movie ★ 9.0
1926
The Cowboy and the Countess as Jerry Whipple
Movie ★ 9.0
1925
The Trail Rider as Tex Hartwell
Movie ★ 10.0
1925
Lazybones as Steve Tuttle, aka Lazybones
Movie ★ 6.8
1925
Gold and the Girl as Dan Prentiss
Movie ★ 10.0
1925
Hearts and Spurs as Hal Emory
Movie ★ 10.0
1925
The Arizona Romeo as Tom Long
Movie ★ 8.0
1925
The Timber Wolf as Bruce Standing
Movie ★ 10.0
1925
The Desert's Price as Wils McCann
Movie ★ 9.0
1925
Durand of the Bad Lands as Dick Durand
Movie ★ 7.0
1924
The Vagabond Trail as Donnegan (as Charles Jones)
Movie ★ 10.0
1924
Against All Odds as Chick Newton
Movie ★ 10.0
1924
Not a Drum Was Heard as Jack Mills
Movie ★ 7.0
1924
The Circus Cowboy as Buck Saxon
Movie ★ 10.0
1924
The Desert Outlaw as Sam Langdon
Movie ★ 8.0
1924
Winner Take All as Perry Blair
Movie ★ 9.0
1924
The Man Who Played Square as Matt Black
Movie ★ 6.0
1924
Western Luck as Larry Campbell
Movie ★ 7.0
1923
The Footlight Ranger as Bill Moreland
Movie ★ 9.0
1923
Snowdrift as Carter Brent
Movie ★ 8.0
1923
Skid Proof as Jack Darwin
Movie ★ 8.0
1923
Second Hand Love as Andy Hanks
Movie ★ 8.0
1923
Hell's Hole as Tod Musgrave
Movie ★ 9.0
1923
Cupid's Fireman as Andy McGee
Movie ★ 5.0
1923
The Eleventh Hour as Brick McDonald (as Charles Jones)
Movie ★ 7.0
1923
Big Dan as Dan O'Hara (as Charles Jones)
Movie ★ 10.0
1922
Pardon My Nerve! as Racey Dawson
Movie ★ 8.0
1922
Western Speed as Red Kane
Movie
1922
Roughshod as 'Steel' Brannon
Movie ★ 10.0
1922
Trooper O'Neill as Trooper O'Neill
Movie ★ 9.0
1922
Bells of San Juan as Roderick Norton
Movie ★ 10.0
1922
The Boss of Camp 4 as Chet Fanning
Movie ★ 10.0
1922
The Fast Mail as Stanley Carson (as Charles Jones)
Movie ★ 7.0
1922
West of Chicago as Conroy Daly
Movie ★ 9.0
1921
The One-Man Trail as Tom Merrill
Movie ★ 7.0
1921
Get Your Man as Jock MacTier
Movie ★ 9.0
1921
Straight from the Shoulder as Buck
Movie ★ 10.0
1921
To a Finish as Jim Blake
Movie ★ 10.0
1921
Bar Nothing as Duke Smith
Movie ★ 7.0
1921
Riding with Death as 'Dynamite' Steve Dorsey
Movie ★ 9.0
1921
The Big Punch as Buck
Movie ★ 7.0
1920
The Cyclone as Minor Role (as Buck Gebhart)
Movie ★ 10.0
1920
The Last Straw as Tom Beck
Movie ★ 7.0
1920
The Spirit of Good as Minor Role
Movie ★ 8.0
1920
Square Shooter as Chick Crandall
Movie ★ 8.0
1920
Firebrand Trevison as Firebrand Trevison
Movie ★ 8.0
1920
Sunset Sprague as Sunset Sprague
Movie ★ 8.0
1920
Two Moons as Bill Blunt
Movie ★ 9.0
1920
Just Pals as Bim
Movie ★ 6.4
1920
Forbidden Trails as Quinton 'Squint' Taylor
Movie ★ 8.0
1910s 27 credits
1919
Fighting for Gold as Cowboy (as Buck Gebhart)
Movie
1919
The Coming of the Law as Henchman (as Buck Gebhart)
Movie ★ 10.0
1919
The Speed Maniac as Minor Role (as Buck Gebhart)
Movie ★ 7.0
1919
The Feud as Minor Role
Movie ★ 7.0
1919
The Wilderness Trail as Indian (as Buck Gebhart)
Movie ★ 10.0
1919
The Two Doyles as Outlaw Henchman
Movie ★ 10.0
1919
The Sheriff's Son as Cowboy
Movie ★ 8.0
1919
Hell's Fury Gordon
Movie ★ 9.0
1919
Pitfalls of a Big City as Minor Role
Movie ★ 7.0
1919
Vengeance and the Girl
Movie ★ 7.0
1919
The Uphill Climb as Rockcliffe Stone
Movie ★ 8.0
1919
The Puncher and the Pup
Movie ★ 8.0
1919
Shackles of Fate
Movie ★ 8.0
1919
When Pals Fall Out as Bill
Movie ★ 7.0
1919
Brother Bill as Roy Dexter
Movie
1919
Cupid's Roundup
Movie ★ 7.0
1919
The Cowboy and the Rajah
Movie ★ 9.0
1919
The Desert Rat as Standing Bear
Movie ★ 7.0
1919
Rough-Riding Romance
Movie ★ 7.0
1918
Selfish Yates as Member of the Posse (uncredited)
Movie
1918
True Blue as Cowboy
Movie
1918
The Rainbow Trail as Cowboy
Movie
1918
Riders of the Purple Sage as Cowboy
Movie
1918
Western Blood as Cowboy
Movie ★ 6.0
1917
A Rough Shod Fighter
Movie ★ 9.0
1914
Life on the 101 Ranch, Bliss Oklahoma as Sergeant
Movie
1914
The Outlaw Reforms as Bill
Movie
Crew Credits
1930s 12 credits
1937
Sudden Bill Dorn Producer
Movie ★ 9.0
1937
Boss of Lonely Valley Producer
Movie ★ 7.0
1937
Law for Tombstone Director
Movie ★ 8.0
1937
Black Aces Director
Movie ★ 5.6
1937
Sandflow Producer
Movie ★ 9.0
1937
Left-Handed Law Producer
Movie ★ 7.0
1936
Ride 'Em Cowboy Producer
Movie ★ 10.0
1936
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek Producer
Movie ★ 6.5
1936
Ride 'Em Cowboy Story
Movie ★ 10.0
1936
For the Service Director
Movie ★ 10.0
1936
Empty Saddles Producer
Movie ★ 10.0
1936
The Cowboy and the Kid Story
Movie ★ 8.0
1920s 1 credit
1927
The War Horse Story
Movie ★ 9.0