Posted on 09/03/2015 1:52:51 PM PDT by Morgana
(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.
Jones originated the performance of Bobby in the 1970 production of Stephen Sondheim's "Company."
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May he rest in God’s eternal peace. I had such a crush on him when he was on t.v.
WIKI-— Dean Jones became a devout born-again Christian in 1973–1974, before his father’s death in 1979. His book Under Running Laughter (1982) recounts his experience of Christianity.
He had had a history of suffering from depression. His wife Lory said, “One night he got down on his knees and prayed that God would free him from the miserable moods that he had always suffered. He told me that in an instant it was gone and he felt peace and joy flood into his heart.”[2] Jones appeared in several Christian films.
In 1998, Jones founded the Christian Rescue Committee (CRC), an organization that helps provide a “way of escape to Jews, Christians, and others persecuted for their faith.”[7]
There’s a you tube video of him singing Being Alive from the Broadway show Company circa 1970.
Cool guy. R.I.P.
He was also in "Beethoven".
Darn, another good one gone.
“St. John in Exile” is Dean Jones one man stage show about the elderly Apostle John on the island of Patmos.
It is AWESOME! And that is not a term I use frequently. It really is one of the best thing we’ve ever seen.
Thank you.
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