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:

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


Nebka: One meets such nice people in one's dreams.


Waldo: You know, Mabel, I don't know what I'd do if anything ever happened to you. You're the most beautiful girl in the whole world, and you've got everything. Of course, some of the things you've got you'd be better off without, but you've got everything.


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Played professional football at one point and used the name Jeremiah Schwartz in order to avoid jeopardizing his amateur standing.

Andy Devine is reminisced by Jimmy Buffett in Jimmy's hit song, "Pencil Thin Mustache", in 1974. (It is song #10 on Buffett's Greatest Hits Album, "Songs you know by Heart"). It is a song about the entertainment of Jimmy's youth, while growing up in the 1950s. Jimmy pays tribute to Andy in the chorus, "I wish I had a pencil thin mustache, The "Boston Blackie" kind. A two toned Ricky Ricardo jacket and an autographed picture of Andy Devine".

Was an avid pilot and owned a flying school that trained flyers for the government during World War II.

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