he directed three productions – including The Water Hole (1928) with Nancy Carroll – before accepting an offer from producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 to direct talking films. Dick Jones' first talkie was a mystery/thriller starring Ronald Colman and Joan Bennett titled Bulldog Drummond (1929). At a time when a number of prominent silent film directors could not make the transition to sound, Jones' first effort was heralded for its quality and his future looked bright. Illness and death However, Jones soon fell ill, possibly from tuberculosis that ravaged Los Angeles in the early 1930s and that would claim the lives of stars such as Normand and Renée Adorée. F. Richard Jones died in 1930 at the age of thirty-seven. He left behind a widow, designer Irene Lentz, two former wives, Carol and Josephine, and a daughter, Dickey. He is interred in the Great Mausoleum, Florentine Columbarium, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Following the 1962 death of his wife Irene, she was interred next to him. Selected filmography Mickey (1918) Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919) Love, Honor and Behave (1920) Molly O (1921) The Crossroads of New York (1922) The Country Flapper (1922) Suzanna (1923) The Extra Girl (1923) No Man's Law (1927) The Gaucho (1927) The Water Hole (1928) Bulldog Drummond (1929) External links Film producers from Missouri American film directors Silent film directors Silent film producers 1893 births 1930 deaths Film producers from California Hal Roach Studios filmmakers Businesspeople from St. Louis Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) 20th-century American businesspeople