Western Sidekicks

[THE PILGRIM]

Noticed in the First Movie Thread that I was the only B Western Guy.
I loved the B Oaters and one reason was the Sidekick.
The Oaters always had the main Hero, Gene, Roy, Hopalong, Lash La Rue, Johnny Mack Brown, etc.
But all those guys always had a Sidekick.
The Sidekick’s job was to add an element of comedy to the serious job of righting wrongs.
When push come to shove-
The Sidekick always backed up the the Hero, he was reliable as your Mother.
So who was your favorite Sidekick?
Mine was Al Fuzzy St John.
Here he is giving Tex Ritter a singing lesson.

 

[sophie]

Gabby Hayes and old Festus Hagan

 

[Davwingman]

Frog Millhouse aka Smiley Burnette

 

[ExRanger714]

Pancho: "Ohhhh Sees-co."

 

[Abbynormal]

"Festus" (Ken Curtis) & Smiley Burnette, but don't forget Walter Brennan

 

[Nevada Ed]

Old time; Gabby Hayes

New Movie; Tonto , J Depp and the Rangers Horse was not to shabby, either.

 

[cougar14]

Warren Oates on "Stoney Burke".

 

[Wrangler Rich]

Jingles, he always made me smile.

 

[susieqz]

ANDY DEVINE
HANDS DOWN, BUT ALL THOSE GUYS WERE FUN.

 

[rwsmith]

This list is great.....

....except for Tonto, although he was not a COMIC sidekick.

 

[SC_Mike]

The Waco Kid, Gene Wilder, from Blazing Saddles.

 

[DeathGrip]

Baba Looey.

 

[jag312]

Many people don't know this, but George "Gabby" Hayes was a very astute real estate investor. He is also my favorite side-kick.

 

[swsig]

Many people don't know this, but George "Gabby" Hayes was a very astute real estate investor. He is also my favorite side-kick.

Yer dern tootin'.

 

[amazingflapjack]

The guy who played Fess Parker's (Davy Crockett) side kick.(?)

 

[amazingflapjack]

Red Rider's side kick - Little something (Indian) Robert Blake (also Beretta) Now 83 and married to his third Wife (55)

 

[amazingflapjack]

Yancey Derringer's Indian pal-Pah-hoo-tah-hay (Wolf who stands in water).

 

[OFT II]

The guy who played Fess Parker's (Davy Crockett) side kick.(?)

That would be Buddy Ebsen.

 

[rwsmith]

LIttlE BEAVER

Red Rider's side kick - Little something (Indian) Robert Blake (also Beretta) Now 83 and married to his third Wife (55)

LOLOL: We had a little East Indian engineer and the technician that worked for him was a red headed guy. When people saw them together they called them "Red Ryder and Little Beaver".

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Fred Harmon was a Cowboy Artist from Pagosa Springs, CO.
He drew the Red Ryder Comic Strip.
Red’s Sidekick was Little Beaver, a Jacarilla Apache from nearby Dulce, NM.
Robert Blake and other child actors portrayed Little Beaver.
Little Beaver spoke broken English.
You need to know that the Jacarillas’ Still celebrate Little Beaver.
The annual rodeo event is named for him.

60th Annual Little Beaver rodeo – Navajo Times

 

[Iggy]

I always got a kick out of Festus.. Got to know him. Somewhere I have a picture of me in WHP uniform and his hat.


That hat was so re-inforced and heavy, Odd Job could have used it for a weapon.. 10 gallon frisbee, who'd a thunk it.

 

[DeathGrip]

That hat was so re-inforced and heavy, Odd Job could have used it for a weapon.. 10 gallon frisbee, who'd a thunk it.

That's why his ears were bent over.

 

[CajunBass]

I always liked Walter Brennan.

And Pat Brady. I pretty much grew up with him and Nellybelle.

 

[Chik a Boom]

From the old days...Jay Silverheels-Tonto from the "Lone Ranger". Good Kemo sabe of few words, though not sure of the comedy angle.

And a little more recent...Cledus.
(That's Jerry Reed from "Smokey and the Bandit.")

 

[Gardner11]

I liked Edgar Bucannen he was Hoppy’s side kick Red ,on the TV show .

 

[STCM(SW)]

"Festus" (Ken Curtis) & Smiley Burnette, but don't forget Walter Brennan

They get my vote!

 

[Texas Star]

Tonto and the Lone Ranger.

Or, Zorro's mute manservant. Can't recall his name. Bernardo? He was in the Disney series, with Guy Williams as Zorro. The comedy figure was the dimwitted Sgt. Garcia.

I don't like dufus sidekicks.

What about Cdr. Spock as Capt. Kirk's sidekick? Or the doctor?Leonard McCoy. Hmmm...was T'Pol a sidekick of the captain on, Star Trek Enterprise? She was his executive officer. But loved an engineer. I wanted her to be with the Captain, now on NCIS New Orleans.

If you saw, Sea Patrol, the exec was certainly the sort of sidekick to the captain, although the couple kept their romance a secret. I liked Kate, although she was sometimes a bit too emotional, as was Nikki, the navigator. But I liked Nikki, too.I'm just not sure she was cut out to be a naval officer. Her affair with the enlisted man was taboo, although a big draw for viewers. My favorite female crew member was Bomber, but she wasn't anyone's sidekick. She was the reserve medic, who worked mainly in the galley. Isn't that what sailors call the kitchen?

I really detested Two Dads on that show. He wasn't really comedic; just a train wreck. The Royal Australian Navy was lucky when he deserted.

Oh! What about Frank Smith and Sgt. Joe Friday on, Dragnet?

Many of these aren't in Westerns, but I think the concept fits. And my favorite Westerns usually didn't have sidekicks. Think Paladin or Chris Colt or Cheyenne. Texas Ranger Hobie Gilman on, Trackdown. Josh McQueen and his silly cut - down Winchester on Wanted: Dead or Alive...I liked the newspaper editor with the marshal on, Tombstone Territory. But was he really a sidekick or just a good friend?

Was Penny Sky King's sidekick as well as his niece? I liked them.

 

[kwselke]

Jack Elam for the win:

Jake in Support Your Local Sheriff

Jug in Support your Local Gunfighter

How would James Garner have survived... but he's wearing a cross draw holster, you broke the wrong finger.



[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNuW23PAOGY[/ame]

 

[shouldazagged]

Jack Elam for the win:

Elam was great. My brother and I wrote a series of gags about a gunfight between him and Marty Feldman, in which everybody in a fifty-yard circle of them got killed and they were unscathed.

But my vote goes to Gabby Hayes, the quintessential sidekick who never seemed to mind getting kicked in the side.

 

[CajunBass]

If you want to stray outside of westerns, my favorite "sidekick" is "The Robot" from Lost in Space. He was everything a good sidekick should be.

And Kent McCord's "Reed" to Martin Milner's "Malloy." Would you call him a "sidekick?" He was sort of the comic to Milner's straight man.