Celebrity Biographies
Dean Jones
Due to complications from Parkinson’s disease and his advanced age, the actor of family films Dean Jones, known by titles such as “There Goes That Hot Rod” or “Beethoven, has died. One more of the family”.
The southern actor Dean Jones was born in Alabama into a modest family, and already when he was studying at the institute he managed to have a program on the local radio, “Dean Jones Sings”, where he tested his skills for popular entertainment.
When it came to developing his acting skills, he went through television in small roles and on theater stages. In 1960 he made his Broadway debut with the then unknown Jane Fonda, with whom he would later coincide in the cinema, in Any Wednesday . Before, she had already taken some first steps in cinema, such as Tea and sympathy , directed by Vincente Minnelli , and El rock de la cárcel with Elvis Presley . He was a regular supporting role, also in such highlights as When Blood Boils , directed by John Sturges .
In any case, its popularity came from the hand of family tapes with flesh and blood actors at Disney, shot between 1965 and 1977, where the highlights are There goes that fireball , Millionaires for a leg and My friend the ghost . In that line of family cinema, Beethoven would do many years later . One more in the family .
Jones was married twice. He divorced Mae Inez Entwisle in 1970. He always recounted the conversion he experienced in 1973, when he was going through a dark period, which he managed to overcome with his approach to Christianity and his marriage to Lory Patrick, who survives him. . In this way, he founded the Christian Rescue Committee (CRC) in 1