Smiley Burnette
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Lester Alvin Burnett, better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and
Burnette in 1937
Grave of Smiley Burnette, at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills
Roy Rogers
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Roy Rogers, nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, was an American actor, singer, television host, and rodeo performer.
Smiley Burnette
…as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who is reported to have played proficiently over 100 musical instruments, sometimes…
Roy Rogers in 1942
Rogers's boyhood home at Duck Run, near Lucasville, Ohio
Lynne Roberts and Rogers in Billy the Kid Returns, 1938
Publicity photo of Rogers and Mary Hart for Shine On, Harvest Moon, 1938