 He played harried school coaches in both pictures.He also starred with Mitzi Green and Virginia Gibson in the short-lived TV sitcom "So This Is Hollywood" (1955), and had a recurring role as neighbor Butch Barton during the early years of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"

Jones returned to the John Wayne stock company portraying Douglas, the bureaucrat antagonist to Wayne's G.W.McLintock in the Western comedy "McLintock!"