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Andy Devine: Guy Madison
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Devine ... worked in radio. He is well-remembered for his role as "Jingles", Guy Madison's sidekick in The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, which Devine and Madison reprised on television. He often appeared on Jack Benny's radio show, sometimes appearing in Benny's semi-regular western series of sketches "Buck Benny Rides Again".
Devine is well-remembered for his role as "Jingles", Guy Madison's sidekick in the US radio and TV series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951). He ... had a part as "Hap" on Flipper and hosted a children's TV show, Andy's Gang , and performed voice parts in animated film s, including " Friar Tuck " in Disney's Robin Hood . He starred in a Twilight Zone episode as "Frisby", a talkative braggart faced with an alien invasion called "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby". He also appeared in the Over-the-Hill Gang and as "Coyote Bill" in Myra Breckenridge .
Andy Devine It was not only the voice that made Andy "an original," as his friend Guy Madison called him. He had a fine sense of the comic relief character so important to the western morality play.. Although in his first western, Law and order (1932), he played a dull-witted young man who is hanged after an accidental killing, that type of role soon gave way to the "sidekick." He played Cookie Bullfincher in nine movies, replacing Gabby Hayes in the Roy Rogers' movies, and continued throughout his career playing the comic relief roles in musicals, westerns, and even a couple of gangster pictures.
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