 After resuming his acting career in the late 1940s, Jones appeared in prominent roles in the John Wayne features "Big Jim McLain" (1952) and "Island in the Sky" (1953).By the end of the 1940s, Jones had aged into a beefier screen presence and into very physical character roles.He was no longer a leading man but he had developed a comic villain persona which meshed with the work of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.