L. Q. Jones | 94 years old

L.Q. Jones was born as Justus Ellis McQueen Jr., one of the most prolific actors and directors from the 1950s to the 2000s. He had worked several jobs before he was employed in the movie industry, including being a stand-up comedian, a baseball and football player, and oddly, as a farmhand in Nicaragua.

His earliest film appearance was in the 1955 movie Battle Cry, where he played the role of his namesake. Since then, he became of the name L.Q. Jones and used it as his screen name. During the 1960s, Jones was one of the members of Sam Peckinpah’s company of actors who received credits in films such as Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch, and The Ballad of Cable Hogue.