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George Francis Hayes (Gabby Hayes) was an American actor. He was born in 1885 at Wellsville, New York, and died in 1969 of heart failure. As a young man, he worked in a circus and played semi- pro baseball before appearing in vaudeville and on the legitimate stage, primarily in stock companies. He gained fame as Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick Windy Halliday in many films between 1936 and 1939. Leaving the Cassidy films, he was legally precluded from using the 'Windy' nickname, and so took on the name 'Gabby', and was so billed from about 1940. One of the few sidekicks to land on the annual list of Top Ten Western Box-office 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 thirties played 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'.
Offstage he was an elegant and well-appointed connoisseur and man-about-town devoting his time to financial investments.
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John Wayne (real name Marion Michael Morrison) was an American actor. He was born in 1907 and died of cancer in 1979. He is famous for his role in many classic westerns.
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A Man Betrayed is a drama starring John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford and Ward Bond in a story about a man investigating the killing of his friend in an American town where corruption and murder are rife. A Man Betrayed was directed by John H Auer in 1941.
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Back to Bataan is a Second World War drama starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn about the struggles of the Filipino army and resistance movement following the Japanese capture of the Bataan Peninsular.
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Blood Alley is an adventure Starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall in a story about an American seaman rescued from a Chinese jail and helping in a mass exodus from the Chinese Communist regime in an old ship sailed to Hong Kong.
Blood Alley was directed by William Wellman in 1955.
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Brannigan is a crime drama starring John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon and James Booth in a story about a tough Chicago policeman coming to London to search for a notorious gangster. Brannigan was directed by Douglas Hickox in 1975.
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Cahill - United States Marshal is a western starring John Wayne in a story about a US Marshal who discovers that his sons have taken part in a bank robbery. Cahill - United States Marshal was directed by Andrew V McLaglen in 1973.
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Chisum is a western starring John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett and Bruce Cabot in a story about a New Mexico cattle baron who takes action when he is threatened by a local businessman and the corrupt sheriff. Chisum was directed by Andrew V McLaglen in 1970.
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Dark Command is a western starring John Wayne and Walter Pidgeon in a story about a Kansas marshal who sets out after a pro-slavery guerrilla who is leading a campaign of terror in pre-Civil War Kansas. Dark Command was directed by Raoul Walsh.
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El Dorado is a western starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan and Charlene Holt in a story about a hired thug who arrives at a town only to find the sheriff is an old friend, and decides to help the sheriff fight a cattle baron. El Dorado was directed by Howard Hawks in 1967.
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