Dean Jones, a stage and screen actor who starred in numerous Disney movies, including "The Love Bug," "That Darn Cat!" and "Beethoven," died Tuesday in Los Angeles of Parkinson's disease, his publicist said. He was 84.
Born Jan. 25, 1931, in Decatur, Ala., Jones was inducted into the Disney Legends Hall of Fame in 1995.
Jones was perhaps best known for playing Jim Douglas, a racecar driver who sat behind the wheel of Herbie, a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, in 1968’s “The Love Bug” and one of its sequels, “Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo,” as well as a 1982 television series and a 1997 TV movie.