This tall, sandy-haired, mustachioed actor from Texas, born Justus McQueen, adopted the name of the character he portrayed in his first film, Urlaub bis zum Wecken (1955). Jones, with his craggy, gaunt looks, first appeared in minor character roles in plenty of WWII films including Die jungen Löwen (1958), Die Nackten und die Toten (1958), Die ins Gras beißen (1962) and Schlacht im Korallenmeer (1959). However, 1962 saw him team up with maverick director Sam Peckinpah for the first of Jones' five appearances in his films. Sacramento (1962) saw Jones play one of the lowlife Hammond brothers. Next he appeared alongside Charlton Heston in Sierra Charriba (1965), then Peckinpah cast him, along with his real-life friend Strother Martin, as one of the scummy, murderous bounty hunters in The Wild Bunch - Sie kannten kein Gesetz (1969). Such was the chemistry between Jones and Martin that Peckinpah teamed them again the following year in Abgerechnet wird zum Schluß (1970), and Jones' final appearance in a Peckinpah film was in another western, Pat Garrett jagt Billy the Kid (1973). Two years later Jones directed the cult post-apocalyptic film Der Junge mit dem Hund (1975) starring a young Don Johnson. He has continued to work in Hollywood, and as the lines on his craggy face have deepened, he turns up more frequently as crusty old westerners, especially in multiple TV guest spots. He turned in an interesting performance as a seemingly good ol' boy Nevada cowboy who was actually a powerful behind-the-scenes player in state politics who leaned on Robert De Niro's Las Vegas mob gambler in Martin Scorsese's violent and powerful Casino (1995). - IMDb Mini Biography By: firehouse44
