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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 23, 2018 5:26:11 GMT
"A sidekick is a slang expression for a close companion or colleague who is, or generally regarded as, subordinate to the one he or she accompanies" Sidekicks often act as a counterpoint to the hero and the drama , sometimes more rational than our hero, they can offer an alternate point of view, or possess knowledge & skills, the hero does not have. Many sidekicks function as comic relief usually superfluous to the main action, while others more importantly play a substantial role... Have you got a memorable favourite , or not so favourite Sidekick to share ? Yuri Tolubeyev plays Sancho Panza sidekick to Don Quixote . The famous work first appeared in 1605 there have been many film adaptations. Don Kikhot (1957) is a Soviet Union film directed by Grigori Kozintsev . Recruited by Don Quixote as his squire the sidekick Sancho Panza is a main character. A simple farmer unable to read, but he knows and can recite numerous proverbs. He employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical obsessive orations on antiquated knighthood, and he rides a donkey. Without his faithful sidekick who knows what would have become of Don Quixote...  Dr Watson is Sherlock Holmes' friend confidant and assistant his sidekick. A Victorian-era gentleman Watson unlike eccentric Holmes is grounded and is very astute, although he can never match Holmes superior deductive skills.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 23, 2018 6:11:42 GMT
 George "Gabby" Hayes "American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He was born May 7, 1885, the third of seven children, in the Hayes Hotel (owned by his father) in the tiny hamlet of Stannards, New York, on the outskirts of Wellsville, New York."  .jpg) "He gained fame as Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick Windy Halliday in many films between 1936-39. Leaving the Cassidy films in a salary dispute, he was legally precluded from using the "Windy" nickname, and so took on the sobriquet "Gabby", and was so billed from about 1940. One of the few sidekicks to land on the annual list of Top Ten Western Boxoffice Stars, he did so repeatedly. In his early films, he alternated between whiskered comic-relief sidekicks and clean-shaven bad guys, but by the later 1930s, he worked almost exclusively as a Western sidekick to stars such as John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Randolph Scott. After his last film, in 1950, he starred as the host of a network television show devoted to stories of the Old West for children, The Gabby Hayes Show (1950). Offstage an elegant and well-appointed connoisseur and man-about-town."  with Mrs. Gabby |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 23, 2018 7:36:32 GMT
Thanks BATouttaheck Interesting to read also that that with all those familiar hayseed phrases Hayes uttered eg. "yer durn tootin'" he apparently in real life was an intelligent, well-groomed and articulate man, who disliked Westerns ! |
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 23, 2018 7:52:30 GMT
Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. As Frodo himself says...    ![]()  And also... Tinkerbell in the 2003 movie Peter Pan. **spoilers below**  She’s a bit annoying at times.  And clearly doesn’t like Wendy coming between her and Peter’s friendship.  She does something that angers Peter and he banishes her.  But she drinks poison to save him and seemingly dies.  Peter realizes what he’s lost.  But everyone knows what brings fairies back from the dead.  Their friendship is restored.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 23, 2018 14:53:11 GMT
One if these fellas is often a sidekick to the other guy. Guess which is which !  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 23, 2018 22:19:09 GMT
PAT BUTTRAM The son of a circuit-riding Methodist preacher in rural Alabama, Pat Buttram became one of America's best-known comic entertainers. He left Alabama a month before his 18th birthday to attend the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. An announcer from radio station WLS was on hand to interview members of the crowd and settled on Pat as a typical visitor from the South. The interview that followed was anything but typical. Pat made a hit with his hilarious observations on the fair and was immediately offered a job with the station. This led to a long and happy association with the popular "National Barn Dance" radio program. During those years Pat met Gene Autry, who took a liking to the young comic and later brought him to Hollywood to replace Smiley Burnette, who had found other work while Gene served in WWII. Together Pat and Gene made many western films and a television series, The Gene Autry Show (1950), which aired from 1950 until 1956. They remained close friends until Pat's death in 1994.  Later on Green Acres in the 60s  He claimed that he got some of his western sidekick roles because producers mistakenly thought they were hiring Pat Brady.(see below)
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Post by politicidal on Jan 23, 2018 22:23:23 GMT
Errol Flynn and Alan Hale, Sr. made thirteen movies together.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 23, 2018 22:25:42 GMT
SMILEY BURNETTE "Smiley worked on a local radio station and in Vaudeville after high school. Always interested in music, he was friends with Gene Autry and worked with him on the radio show "The National Barn Dance". When Westerns became a big draw with sound, the studios were always on the lookout for singing cowboys. In 1934, both Gene and Smiley made their debuts in In Old Santa Fe (1934). Smiley became well known as Gene's plump sidekick Frog Milhouse, and they worked together in over 80 Westerns.  After Gene, Smiley provided the comic relief for other cowboy stars at Republic such as Sunset Carson and Charles Starrett (The Durango Kid). He also provided a lot of the music as he wrote over 300 western songs and sang quite a few in the films. Smiley was the first supporting actor to regularly appear on the Top Ten Western money-maker list. He became well known for his white horse with the black circle around one eye. When he used a team of white horses, as when he was 'Spec Specialist' Smiley Burnette, each white horse had one black circle around one eye.  When the 'B' movie Western reign ended in 1953, Smiley retired from the screen. He made occasional appearances on television including being a regular on the music show "Ozark Jubilee (1959)". His last performance was as railroad engineer Charlie Pratt on Petticoat Junction from 1963-67. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 23, 2018 22:35:58 GMT
PAT BRADY  Sidekick to Roy Rogers on The Roy Rogers Show where The Double R Ranch featured "The King of the Cowboys" Roy, his "Smartest Horse in the Movies" Trigger, "Queen of the West" Dale, her horse Buttermilk, their dog Bullet, and even sidekick Pat Brady's jeep, Nellybelle.  
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 23, 2018 22:54:05 GMT
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 23, 2018 22:59:20 GMT
Walter Brennan.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 23, 2018 23:19:24 GMT
Charlie Chan's sidekicks were often home-grown: Keye Luke made eight appearances as #1 son Lee (with Warner Oland)  Victor Sen Yung made thirteen appearances as #2 son Jimmy (with Sidney Toler)  He then made another five as son Tommy (# unknown) with Roland Winters  |
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 23, 2018 23:24:32 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 23, 2018 23:59:16 GMT
Female sidekicks?
Eve Arden might qualify -- especially in MILDRED PIERCE.
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 24, 2018 0:29:57 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 24, 2018 0:39:45 GMT
Cosmo Brown / Don Lockwood (Donald O'Connor / Gene Kelly ) Singin' In the Rain  Donkey / Shrek 
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 24, 2018 1:38:32 GMT
Richard Martin created the Mexican-Irish character Chito Rafferty, full name always proud to tell "Chito Jose Gonzales Bustamonte Rafferty" The Irish in me is for fight; the Mexican for love a favourite line , he joined Tim Holt in 1947 with a Zane Grey adaptation Thunder Mountain, the pair made 29 films together. 
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 24, 2018 5:16:25 GMT
Here are some more old-timey sidekicks: Syd Saylor with Clyde Beatty in “The Lost Jungle" – Saylor could make his bow tie bob up and down on his Adam’s apple when he was frightened  Gabby Hayes rip-off Al “Fuzzy” St. John with Buster Crabbe  Ventriloquist Max Terhune with Elmer – part of the Range Busters cowboy series of the 1940s  Pat Brady with his jeep Nellybelle, sidekicking Roy Rogers and Dale Evens  That’s Jimmy Dodd on the left. Best known as the adult on The Mickey Mouse Club, he was the Third Guy and comic sidekick on the last six Three Mesquiteers movies. Tom Tyler and Bod Steele are the lead players.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 24, 2018 5:36:41 GMT
mikef6 The same Bob Steele who played Curly in the Meredith / Chaney version of Of Mice and Men (hissss booo) and possibly a more familiar Jimmie Dodd  
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 24, 2018 5:38:30 GMT
mikef6 The same Bob Steele who played Curly in the Meredith / Chaney version of Of Mice and Men (hissss booo) and possibly a more familiar Jimmie Dodd Bob Steele was also the psycho killer Canino in "The Big Sleep." |
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