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Frank Richard Jones (September 7, 1893 – December 14, 1930) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. Early life and career. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dick Jones was sixteen years old when he became involved in the fledgling film industry in his hometown with the Atlas film company.
F. Richard Jones. Director: Flying Pat. One of the moving forces of early American silent comedy, F. Richard Jones made dozens of hilarious two-reel comedies for Mack Sennett in the mid-teens and early 1920s, featuring such stars as Louise Fazenda, Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy and Ben Turpin.
F. Richard Jones. Director: Flying Pat. One of the moving forces of early American silent comedy, F. Richard Jones made dozens of hilarious two-reel comedies for Mack Sennett in the mid-teens and early 1920s, featuring such stars as Louise Fazenda, Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy and Ben Turpin.
F. Richard Jones is known as an Director, Production Supervisor, Production Manager, Supervising Producer, Co-Director, Producer, Writer, and Story. Some of his work includes Bulldog Drummond, Mickey, The Extra Girl, The Gaucho, Yankee Doodle in Berlin, The First 100 Years, Down on the Farm, and What's the World Coming To?.
American Film Director, Producer. He started in the film industry at the age of sixteen. In 1918, he had a chance to co-direct the film Mickey and was very successful. He was one of the premier directors of silent film comedies.
The Extra Girl is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by F. Richard Jones and starring Mabel Normand. Produced by Mack Sennett, The Extra Girl followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidor's Show People (1928).
Sep 7, 2019 · F. Richard Jones (1893-1930) was a director of great silent comedy classics and was positioned to be one of the top directors of talking pictures for a good many years if tuberculosis hadn’t taken him away at the young age of 37.
