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:

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


[seeking the location of an old Mexican silver mine, Roy, Cookie, Lee and the Padre find a clue on one of the bells of San Angelo church]
Padre: [reading the inscription] "As the sun rises, the shadow of my arms and the pillar of my strength shall mark that which God made and whence came the bells of San Angelo."
Lee Madison: That's beautiful!
Cookie Bullfincher: But what does it mean?
Roy Rogers: "... The shadow of my arms and the pillar of my strength..." Arms, pillar - that must mean a cross! Cookie, do you know where there's a cross around here?
Cookie Bullfincher: Sure! On top of the church.
Roy Rogers: No, I mean up in the hills near the border where the mine could be.
Padre: None now, but there was a shrine many years ago to which the people came to pray to Santa Guadalupe at Easter.
Cookie Bullfincher: Sure, Padre, I remember. On your side of the border near some rimrock!


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


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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.

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

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