Andy Devine Overview:

Character actor, Andy Devine, was born Andrew Vabre Devine on Oct 7, 1905 in Flagstaff, AZ. Devine died at the age of 71 on Feb 18, 1977 in Orange, CA and was cremated and his ashes given to family or friend.

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Jolly, roly-poly American actor with unruly light brown hair and unique, croakingly raucous, high-pitched voice - the comic sidekick of many a western. He got into films through being a college football star, liked it, overcame objections to the effectiveness of his voice in sound films, and stayed to cheer up more than 150 of them. Death caused by cardiac arrest.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the categories of Radio and Television.

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Andy Devine Quotes:

Nicci Lopez: What are you doing here? This is not a place for a girl. Are you crazy?
Consuelo Belmonte: Yes, I love you.
Nicci Lopez: But you will be in great danger. There will be shooting!
Consuelo Belmonte: [carelessly] I don't care. When I discover how brave you are, I decide to come with you. If you die, I die. We all die!
Cookie Bullfincher: Hey, wait a minute, don't count me in on this!


Cookie Bullfincher: Watch yourself; they won't give us any information unless they think we're bums.
Roy Rogers: That's why I brought you along.
Cookie Bullfincher: Aw, Roy!


Cookie Bullfincher: I knew I was too young and pretty to die.


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Also had a kids TV show on one of the local Los Angeles TV stations called "Andy and Froggy" where his sidekick was a frog puppet.

John Wayne and James Stewart were among those who attended his funeral.

His high-pitched, gravelly voice was the result of a childhood accident. While running with a stick (some accounts say a curtain rod) in his mouth, he tripped and fell, ramming the stick through the roof of his mouth. For almost a year, he was unable to speak at all. When he did get his voice back, at length, it had the wheezing, almost duo-toned quality that would ultimately make him a star. Another account of his throat injury says he was sliding down the banister in his father's hotel and somehow damaged his throat.

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