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Historic NY

(37,451 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 06:18 PM Sep 2015

Dean Jones, star of 'Love Bug' and other Disney films, dies at 84

Source: CNN

CNN)Dean Jones, the go-to Disney actor whose films included "The Love Bug," "The Million Dollar Duck," "That Darn Cat!" and "The Shaggy D.A.," died Tuesday, according to his publicist. Jones was 84.

The cause of death was Parkinson's disease, according to publicist Richard Hoffman.

Jones made his film debut in 1956's "Somebody Up There Likes Me," which starred Paul Newman as boxer Rocky Graziano. The next year he appeared in the Elvis Presley movie "Jailhouse Rock."

He also starred on Broadway in such works as "There Was a Little Girl," with Jane Fonda, and the hit "Under the Yum-Yum Tree," also starring in the 1963 Jack Lemmon film.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/entertainment/dean-jones-dies-disney-feat/index.html

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Dean Jones, star of 'Love Bug' and other Disney films, dies at 84 (Original Post) Historic NY Sep 2015 OP
Very sad RockaFowler Sep 2015 #1
Rest in Peace C Moon Sep 2015 #2
... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #3
Did Herbie the Love Bug inspire Steve Jobs to personify the first Macintosh? sorechasm Sep 2015 #10
Pretty cool actor yuiyoshida Sep 2015 #4
... Mnemosyne Sep 2015 #5
Always liked his movies when I was a kid. dhol82 Sep 2015 #6
RIP... Tom_Foolery Sep 2015 #7
A few old classics - That Darn Cat was my favorite teach me everything Sep 2015 #8
Loved him. nt onehandle Sep 2015 #9
R.I.P. Dean Jones Kaleva Sep 2015 #11
Oh. Strange to think of his as an old 84 year old question everything Sep 2015 #12
Wow! Saturday nights at the local (one movie!!!) theater. hamsterjill Sep 2015 #13

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
4. Pretty cool actor
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 07:05 PM
Sep 2015

My dad rented a lot of those films and I remember seeing him and totally forgot about him up to this point. He made some entertaining films.

question everything

(47,486 posts)
12. Oh. Strange to think of his as an old 84 year old
Thu Sep 3, 2015, 12:35 AM
Sep 2015

when I remember him as a very young, fun guy..

R.I.P Dean Jones



hamsterjill

(15,222 posts)
13. Wow! Saturday nights at the local (one movie!!!) theater.
Thu Sep 3, 2015, 11:31 AM
Sep 2015

Lots of giggles and fun with Dean Jones' movies.

May he rest in peace, and my sympathies to his family and friends.

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