L.Q. Jones was 94 years old when he died. He passed away on July 9, 2022, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Born August 19, 1927 in Beaumont, Texas, L.Q. Jones was an American actor and director.
L.Q. Jones completed Port Neches–Groves High School in 1945.
After serving in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946, Jones attended Lamar Junior College and Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Texas, and then studied law, business and journalism at the University of Texas at Austin from 1950 to 1951.
Jones worked as a stand-up comic, briefly played professional baseball and football, and even tried ranching in Nicaragua, before turning to act after corresponding with his former college roommate, Fess Parker.
He made his film debut in 1955 in Battle Cry, credited under his birth name Justus McQueen.
Jones subsequently appeared in Sam Peckinpah’s films Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
His later film roles include Casino, The Patriot, The Mask of Zorro, and A Prairie Home Companion.
L.Q. Jones was the writer and director of the 1975 science fiction film A Boy and His Dog, based on Harlan Ellison’s novella of the same name.