Andy devine biography
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Andy Devine
Biography
Andy Devine (October 7, - February 18, ) was a rotund, raspy-voiced American character actor and comic cowboy sidekick.
His movie career started in silent films and extended until his death.
He was not named Jeremiah Schwartz at birth, this was a pseudonym during his college football years.
Devine was born in Flagstaff, Arizona. He grew up in Kingman, Arizona, where his family moved when he was a year old. He appeared in more than films and shared with Walter Brennan the rare ability to move with ease from B Westerns to A pictures.
He was a star football player at Santa Clara University, which led to his first film role in the silent The Collegians.
Although it was at first thought that his peculiar voice would prevent him from moving to the talkies, it became his trademark and strongest selling point. Devine's speech was the result of a childhood accident. He had been running with a stake in his mouth and fell, the instrument piercing the roof of his
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Andy Devine
For the English actor, see Andy Devine (English actor).
American actor (–)
Andrew Vabre Devine (October 7, – February 18, )[1] was an American character actor known for his distinctive raspy, crackly voice and roles in WesternRoy Rogers in 10 feature films. He also appeared alongside John Wayne in films such as Stagecoach (), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and How the West Was Won (both ). He fryst vatten also remembered as Jingles on the TV series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from to , as Danny McGuire in A Star fryst vatten Born (), and as the röst of Friar Tuck in the Disney Animation Studio film Robin Hood ().
Early life
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Rotund comic character actor of American films. Born Andrew Vabre Devine in Flagstaff, Arizona, he was raised in nearby Kingman, Arizona, the son of an Irish-American hotel operator Thomas Devine and his wife Amy. Devine was an able athlete as a student and actually played semi-pro football under a phony name (Jeremiah Schwartz, often erroneously presumed to be his real name). Devine used the false name in order to remain eligible for college football. A successful football player at St. Mary & St. Benedict College, Arizona State Teacher's College, and Santa Clara University, Devine went to Hollywood with dreams of becoming an actor. After a number of small roles in silent films, he was given a good part in the talkie The Spirit of Notre Dame () in part due to his fine record as a football player. His sound-film career seemed at risk due to his severely raspy voice, the result of a childhood injury. His voice, however, soon became his trademark, and he spent the next forty