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Andy Devine
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One of the great cowboy sidekicks, Andy Devine?s distinctive two-tone voice was the result of a childhood accident. Born Jeremiah Schwartz in Flagstaff, Arizona, the son of a local hotel owner, Devine was a rough and tumble kid, with an athletic bent. Devine played football at Santa Clara University, and his first movie role came not in a western, but in the 1926 silent film The Collegians. When sound came to film, Devine assumed his voice would render him unemployable, but he was soon cast as a host of comic sidekicks from ?Cookie? for Roy Rogers to ?Jingles? on TV?s Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, starring Guy Madison.
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For those who don't know Andy Devine, here are his acting credits at Imdb.com. He appeared in 181 movies from 1935 until 1977, the year he died. Devine was a prominent Valley booster and an honorary mayor of Van Nuys. He shows up here at America's Suburb.com in the Valleywood chapter and on the History and Lore page.
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Andy Devine took over the lead after Ed McConnell's death. The renamed Andy's Gang included all the characters from Smilin' Ed McConnell and his Buster Brown Gang. With the exception of Buster Brown and his dog Tige, all the characters had been created by Ed McConnell. The only new element, apart from the new front man, was an increasing tendency to have special effects using slowed down footage, talking animals and plenty of disappearing and re-appearing tricks.
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Andy Devine turned up as a regular on Flipper during the 1964-65 season, and as a guest on dozens of sitcoms and western series over the years. In 1969 and 1970, he costarred in two popular TV-movies as one of the 'Over-The-Hill Gang'; one of his last guest appearances was on an episode of Alias Smith and Jones in 1972. Andy Devine died in 1977.
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Andy Devine was born in Kingman, Arizona, where his father ran a hotel. During his youth, Devine was a self-confessed hellraiser, and stories of his rowdy antics are still part of Kingman folklore (though they've undoubtedly improved in the telling). His trademarked ratchety voice was the result...Read More
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Andy Devine was well-known to TV audiences as the raspy-voiced sidekick in a torrent of western movies from the forties. These films made up the bulk of local programming in the early days of television. Devine was ... seen as 'Jingles' on the syndicated TV series, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickock.
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