The Love Bug Star Dean Jones Dies at 84!!!
On Tuesday Hollywood lost Disney legend and The Love Bug Star Dean Jones who passed away at the age of 84.
Dean touched all of our hearts in some of Disney’s zaniest and funny family-friendly movies like The Love Bug and That Darned.
He was truly one of a kind.
Dean Jones died Tuesday of Parkinson’s disease in Los Angeles, publicist Richard Hoffman said in a press release, CelebNMusic247.com learned via USAToday.
“Inducted into the Disney Legends Hall of Fame in 1995, Jones appeared in 46 films, five Broadway shows and numerous TV series and specials over his career. His film grosses exceeded $960 million and six of his ten films for Walt Disney are on Variety’s all-time hit list,” Hoffman said.
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His films for Disney especially were childhood milestones for millions of baby-boomers entranced by their first movies. Besides The Love Bug and That Darned Cat!, his films included The Million Dollar Duck, Snowball Express, Under The Yum-Yum Tree, Blackbeard’s Ghost, and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, plus another family classic, Beethoven, for Universal.
On TV, the actor with the permanently boyish face starred in Ensign O’Toole and Herbie,The Love Bug among scores of others.
Born Dean Carroll Jones on Jan. 25, 1931, in Decatur, Alabama, he served in the Navy during the Korean War and attended Asbury University in Kentucky. he started as the host of a local Alabama radio show and later made his way to Broadway in There Was A Little Girl with Jane Fonda in 1960. Later, under contract at MGM, Jones made his film debut in Somebody Up There Likes Me and Jailhouse Rockwith Elvis Presley.
The rest is history.
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Jones is survived by his wife of 42 years, writer Lory Basham Jones; three children, Caroline Jones, Deanna Demaree and Michael Pastick; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be scheduled for a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to Christian Rescue Fund c/o Jubilee Campaign USA, in Fairfax, VA., Hoffman said.
Mr. Dean Jones will be missed. We thank him for his family-friendly movies which are timeless. He will always be remembered.
Our condolences goes out to his family and friends.
