Original portrait photograph of Buck Jones by photographer Ray Jones, 1935

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1935. Vintage borderless sepia portrait photograph of Buck Jones by photographer Ray Jones, 1935, with three stamps on the verso, two studio stamps, one crediting photographer Ray Jones and one noting actor Buck Jones, and a provenance stamp. Jones' outfit in the photograph offered here, is the one worn in the 1935 Universal Pictures western "The Crimson Trail."

From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.

One of the most prolific of the "B" Western stars, Buck Jones appeared in over 160 films between 1914 and 1942. Known as Charles Jones in his early career, he quickly rose to stardom, accompanied by his famed horse Silver. He died in 1942, two days after being horribly burned in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston on November 28, 1942, in which nearly 500 people perished.

7.25 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine.

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