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. Hayes was the son of hotelier and oil-production manager Clark Hayes...See full bio »
[on westerns] I hate 'em. Really can't stand 'em. They always are the same. You have so few plots - the stagecoach holdup, the rustlers, the mortgage gag, the mine setting and the retired gunslinger.
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Trivia:
Though a long time Western star, he had not learned to ride a horse until nearly 50 years of age.
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Trademark:
Catchphrases "yer durn tootin" and "young whipper snapper"
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