From Fantasy Island to the Lone Ranger and beyond, some shows just wouldn't be the same without their sidekicks. Learn about some of our favorites here!
All 3 of these men were a BIG part of my childhood!! May they all R.I.P. Thank you, Gentlemen, for your hard work and contribution! You'll NEVER be forgotten!
I used to watch the Benny Hill show in California as a teen. I introduced my parents to British humor with his show and they continued to watch the shows for decades. When my mother developed breast cancer and lost all of her hair to chemo, we used to walk past her and pat at her bald head the same way that Benny slapped Jackie's head in the show. Good memories.
Thank you for this video all three of these men were immensely talented and have left wonderful memories . And they all came from humble backgrounds but had a determination to be great
Jay Silverheels was also a western fast-draw pistol champion and trained lots of western stars how to not look foolish. He's also the one facing off against Matt Dillon at the start of the show and getting his shot off first.
Love, love the Benny Hill and his sidekick James Wright. That is one show that will make you laugh throughout it. My respects to Jay Silverheels. I never knew of him until I watched something about him on YT. You could see he was so moved getting his name of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Silverheels even outlasted Moore in the role. Who's this John Hart guy I keep seeing in the later episodes? (BTW, the stage name "Jay Silverheels" was a nickname Mr Smith was given when he played lacrosse, in reference to his speed.)
RIP Jay Silverheels aka Tanto, I watched the Lone Ranger as a little kid in the 1970s. He broke the racial barriers on how the Red Man is always protrayed. He was a great actor and famous to play as Tanto in 1949.
Yeah he was more famous than the actor who played as the Lone Ranger. I was greatly amazed that he was the Indian chief in the Brady bunch. I am learning how to speak Navajo but yet I don't know if I have any Navajo in me or not. I studied Navajo 📻 radio men and watch Wind talkers of World War 2.
Thank you for the memories. Loved all those shows! Benny Hill’s show here in US would sometimes get one over and a boob would flash!! What a shock to us. Lol Fantasy Island was a family favorite. Lone Ranger was a Saturday fav in reruns for us kids.
Little Jackie Wright was an amazing comedian. Benny Hill was not only a funny man, but a very good judge of people, and will always be remembers as a bawdy genius.
I remember watching the Benny hill show as a kid and love Jackie wright. Never knew his name or what happen to him , so thanks for the vid. Benny Hill show is a classic !
As a kid in the 1950's I was devoted to the Lone Ranger, but my dad always watched Tonto. I never knew why until I became an adult and myself watching him in reruns. It think it was his inate dignity and athleticism.
years ago when Jack Paar hosted the The Tonight Show, he did a 15 minute interview with Jay Silverheels who told Paar he married an Italian girl. Paar asked "why" and he said: "i had to get even with Columbus somehow".
More excellence. I missed this one.. glad to have seen it alpha! Old joke.... What was Tatoo's favorite M&Ms? the plains boss the plains!! i remember that from grade school. I watched Fantasy Island EVERY Saturday night! Herb was one of my favorites. when he walked away, he was was replaced by Wendy Schaal who went on later to voice Francine in "American Dad."
I watched the Lone Ranger in the fifties and I was always more drawn to Jay Silverheels and Tantto than the masked man. He was mysterious, powerful and very handsome. I always wished he had his own show.
They weren't just sidekicks, they were the heart and soul as well. When someone says "Fantasy Island", you might see Ricardo Montalban but you hear in the back of you brain, "De plane boss." Jackie Wright always had that "What have I gotten myself into" look that played off Benny Hill so well. And Jay Silverheels? at a time when indians were nothing more that cardboard cutouts that any cowboy could shoot, he brought depth and complexity to his character!
I grew up watching all 3 shows religiously, & I am a better person for watching them. I loved & admired all 3 "sidekicks," & of course the main characters. May legions of Angels have winged them to their rest.
WOW--I had no idea Villachez's story was so sad! The whole "organs continue to grow til they don't fit in your body" thing sounds legit sci-fi-level terrifying. Both the drinking and the self-infliction sound kinda understandable; that must've been agony.
I am from new Jersey years ago visit grandmother woodbridge ont area I saw him at something like a county fair this was in the late 50s I was very young. Thank you about some of history I saw the line ranger with sun glasses at Cumberland co college yours Evan's w robinson
I love Benny Hill show that poor old man who gets slap on the head by Benny Hill talking about slapstick comedy. I watched the Brady bunch and I never knew that Tanto was that Indian chief. I have some Indian tribes in me, I am learning how to speak Navajo. The tribes are from North America, Central America.
6:04 did you know that the Lone Ranger ended up by shooting Tonto?? after hearing Tonto call his name for many decades, Lone Ranger found out what Kemo Sabbi really meant. and he didn't think it was funny !!
Johnny Carson told the story of, when he first came to Hollywood, and was working as a writer, extra, etc. He was working at some studio one day when, he saw what he described as the "biggest, blackest Cadillac" drove up. Out stepped none other than Jay Silverheels, in a sharkskin suit (expensive, and popular in Hollywood, and elswehere back in the day) and sunglasses. He said "...like, where's the set, man". Someone pointed Silverheels in the right direction, and he strode off !!
The story of Herve Villachez is very sad. Most of his career and life were destroyed by alcohol. And fellow midget actor Verne Troyer followed right in his footsteps, losing his career and life also from alcoholism!
The Lone Ranger & Tonto were leading a wagon train one day when they were attacked by a large indian war party! The Lone Ranger said,"Tonto, we had better "circle the wagons"! Tonto replied,"What do you mean "we" had better "circle the wagons, Kimosabe"?!
Actually, "Native American" is a term used for any of the native peoples that are indigenous to North, Central, or South America, not just the United States.
Jay Silverheels being Canadian? No small irony then, that in the 1970s radio spoof series of Lone Ranger, called "The Stoned Ranger", the sidekick was called "Toronto", Toronto being the principal city in the Canadian province of Ontario.
@@kevinchappell3694 I lived at Stockton(NSW, Australia) in the early 1970s. None of the local stations, 2KO, 2HD or 2NX carried the show, but I found it on an interstate station, 3KZ-Melbourne, Victoria(Melbourne is Victoria's Capital city). Being a long-distance signal, it drifted in and out but I'd listen anyway and the show was a total crack-up.
@@RH-wr9ic Sorry, but I have no idea. I'm not Native & I don't know any Native persons. Probably the same reasons as appeal to those in the United States who live on reservations, I suppose, whatever those are. They are free to live wherever they wish, I do know that. They're not prisoners there. 🤷
R H here it’s reservations and they are a separate country. You need cash as they have trouble with the credit card companies. It’s so that they can have their own country/ land in their own land. That’s why it’s reserve/reservation. It’s set aside for them.
Mr Silverheels also performed with Clayton Moore in the radio version of The Lone Ranger. I have always wondered how he felt about this conversation from a radio episode. Lone Ranger, "This country needs more settlers". Tonto, "That right".
The Americas, or America, are lands in the Western Hemisphere that are also known as the New World. Comprising the continents of North America and South America, along with their associated islands, they cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area. The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that run the length of the west coast. The flatter eastern side of the Americas is dominated by large river basins, such as the Amazon, Mississippi, and La Plata. Extending 14,000 km in a north-south orientation, the climate and ecology varies strongly across the Americas, from arctic tundra of Northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska, to the tropical rain forests in Central America and South America.
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A little trivia. The Lone Ranger is actually a freed slave but of course they couldn't use an African American actor during those highly racist times of the show.
The mystery masked man was smart, he got himself a Tonto Tonto did his dirty work for free But Tonto he was was smarter, and one day said kimosabe Kiss my ass I bought a boat I'm going out to sea. And if I had a boat I'd go out on the ocean And if I had a pony I'd ride him on my boat And we'ed be all together just sailing on that ocean Me upon my pony on my boat
I know a real good lone ranger joke. The lone ranger and tonto was riding hard into town on a super hot day. They stop at the saloon an lone ranger told tonto I'm going in to have a drink, you run around the horses to cool them off. As the lone ranger was having a nice cold drink a cowboy came though the front doors and said, Mr is that your white horse out there. lone ranger replied yes. Then the man said, you left your engine running.
Some people don't know how to tell a joke. The Lone Ranger's "faithful Indian companion" was named TONTO (stupid in Spanish) not tun-to. Also, the way you wrote the joke makes no sense. The punch line to this old joke is, "You left your INJUN running", not your ENGINE running. If indeed it was engine running, a twist to the joke would be, "You won't go far, he just lost all of his gasoline. (For those of you who don't get it, the horse just had a big bladder emptying.)
Stranger: Hey Mister, is that your white horse outside? LR: Why yes, that is my white horse. Why do you ask? Stranger: You left your Injun running. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
All 3 of these men were a BIG part of my childhood!! May they all R.I.P. Thank you, Gentlemen, for your hard work and contribution! You'll NEVER be forgotten!
From everything I've ever read, Benny Hill was a prince of a man and truly beloved by all who knew him.
I used to watch the Benny Hill show in California as a teen. I introduced my parents to British humor with his show and they continued to watch the shows for decades. When my mother developed breast cancer and lost all of her hair to chemo, we used to walk past her and pat at her bald head the same way that Benny slapped Jackie's head in the show. Good memories.
I really loved Jay Silverheels. God bless his family and his memory!
Glad to see Jay got his star before he passed. Based on the photo it was obviously an emotional moment for him.
For being an Indian man it was a great honor for him and the rest of the Indians
They were great actors, who will be remembered forever
well said
I *still* enjoy watching Jackie on my Benny Hill DVDs. My favorite bit is probably as the patient in the "Lower Tidmarsh Hospital Service". 😀
ben trimble .......😂😂😂😂 yah that was hilarious
I grew up watching these shows and loving them dearly.
Thank you for this video all three of these men were immensely talented and have left wonderful memories . And they all came from humble backgrounds but had a determination to be great
Jay Silverheels was also a western fast-draw pistol champion and trained lots of western stars how to not look foolish. He's also the one facing off against Matt Dillon at the start of the show and getting his shot off first.
Love, love the Benny Hill and his sidekick James Wright. That is one show that will make you laugh throughout it. My respects to Jay Silverheels. I never knew of him until I watched something about him on YT. You could see he was so moved getting his name of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Always loved westerns. Still do. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, what a great pair! Of course we can't leave out Silver and Scout!
Silverheels even outlasted Moore in the role. Who's this John Hart guy I keep seeing in the later episodes?
(BTW, the stage name "Jay Silverheels" was a nickname Mr Smith was given when he played lacrosse, in reference to his speed.)
I am only a few miles away from 6 nations Many of his relations (Jay Silverheels) are still in the area.
Great video.
RIP Jay Silverheels aka Tanto, I watched the Lone Ranger as a little kid in the 1970s. He broke the racial barriers on how the Red Man is always protrayed. He was a great actor and famous to play as Tanto in 1949.
Yeah he was more famous than the actor who played as the Lone Ranger. I was greatly amazed that he was the Indian chief in the Brady bunch. I am learning how to speak Navajo but yet I don't know if I have any Navajo in me or not. I studied Navajo 📻 radio men and watch Wind talkers of World War 2.
Love all 3 featured sidekicks to bits.They brought us much joy on the small and big screens.Rest well chaps.
Thank you for the memories. Loved all those shows! Benny Hill’s show here in US would sometimes get one over and a boob would flash!! What a shock to us. Lol Fantasy Island was a family favorite. Lone Ranger was a Saturday fav in reruns for us kids.
Little Jackie Wright was an amazing comedian. Benny Hill was not only a funny man, but a very good judge of people, and will always be remembers as a bawdy genius.
I remember watching the Benny hill show as a kid and love Jackie wright. Never knew his name or what happen to him , so thanks for the vid. Benny Hill show is a classic !
My Dad and I loved Benny Hill! Benny deserves a lot of credit giving up so much of the funny lines to Jackie.
Bringing back memories! Great video. I always look forward to seeing your uploads! Thank you!
Thank you!!
This is one of your best video's yet, thanks for a great one.
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Another classic, thank you.
As a kid in the 1950's I was devoted to the Lone Ranger, but my dad always watched Tonto. I never knew why until I became an adult and myself watching him in reruns. It think it was his inate dignity and athleticism.
You are very good at doing these. Your voice isn’t annoying like other people’s who do these. They’re informative & interesting. Well done!
May they all rest in peace 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇😇😇
years ago when Jack Paar hosted the The Tonight Show, he did a 15 minute interview with Jay Silverheels who told Paar he married an Italian girl. Paar asked "why" and he said: "i had to get even with Columbus somehow".
I was born in 74, so I was to young to remember these shows when they initially aired, but I would watch the hell out of the lone ranger reruns
More excellence. I missed this one.. glad to have seen it alpha!
Old joke.... What was Tatoo's favorite M&Ms? the plains boss the plains!! i remember that from grade school. I watched Fantasy Island EVERY Saturday night! Herb was one of my favorites. when he walked away, he was was replaced by Wendy Schaal who went on later to voice Francine in "American Dad."
Let's not forget, Bruce Lee starting his acting career as a sidekick.
Yes, and he could have easily toasted the Green Hornet if he wanted.
Benny Hill and Jackie Wright both deserve to have a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
I watched the Lone Ranger in the fifties and I was always more drawn to Jay Silverheels and Tantto than the masked man. He was mysterious, powerful and very handsome. I always wished he had his own show.
Yeah but yet he was an American Indian when the Red Man of any tribe couldn't have. If a Red Man could have his own it would be him.
Tantto? Tonto!
It was not mentioned that Jay Silverheels had a small part in the classic movie of 1948 Key Largo with Humphery Bogart.
They weren't just sidekicks, they were the heart and soul as well. When someone says "Fantasy Island", you might see Ricardo Montalban but you hear in the back of you brain, "De plane boss."
Jackie Wright always had that "What have I gotten myself into" look that played off Benny Hill so well.
And Jay Silverheels? at a time when indians were nothing more that cardboard cutouts that any cowboy could shoot, he brought depth and complexity to his character!
I grew up watching all 3 shows religiously, & I am a better person for watching them. I loved & admired all 3 "sidekicks," & of course the main characters. May legions of Angels have winged them to their rest.
Thank you!!!
Great video
I remember fansity island, great show
peter papadimitriou I never saw fansity island. I remember fantasy island though.
Very Good.....
Shit, man. That first one was brutal
WOW--I had no idea Villachez's story was so sad! The whole "organs continue to grow til they don't fit in your body" thing sounds legit sci-fi-level terrifying. Both the drinking and the self-infliction sound kinda understandable; that must've been agony.
Beautiful but very sad. Thank you for telling their story. I no longer have to ask the question, I wonder what happened to so and so?
I am from new Jersey years ago visit grandmother woodbridge ont area I saw him at something like a county fair this was in the late 50s I was very young. Thank you about some of history I saw the line ranger with sun glasses at Cumberland co college yours Evan's w robinson
Thank you
It seems he endured a hard early life but it's good to see he finally made it!
Oh also Benny Hill play in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968 as a wood carver.
Toymaker making toys for the king.
Benny Hill done his guy right.
Thanks for that Benny.
What a coincidence both their personal lives were so much similar.
Quote, "... he soon started landing SMALL supporting roles...". Was a pun intended? Gotta love it!
I love Benny Hill show that poor old man who gets slap on the head by Benny Hill talking about slapstick comedy. I watched the Brady bunch and I never knew that Tanto was that Indian chief. I have some Indian tribes in me, I am learning how to speak Navajo. The tribes are from North America, Central America.
6:04 did you know that the Lone Ranger ended up by shooting Tonto?? after hearing Tonto call his name for many decades, Lone Ranger found out what Kemo Sabbi really meant. and he didn't think it was funny !!
I liked all three
🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️R.I.P.
I loved Jay Silverheels
I only watched the Lone Ranger because of Jay Silverheels.
Johnny Carson told the story of, when he first came to Hollywood, and was working as a writer, extra, etc. He was working at some studio one day when, he saw what he described as the "biggest, blackest Cadillac" drove up. Out stepped none other than Jay Silverheels, in a sharkskin suit (expensive, and popular in Hollywood, and elswehere back in the day) and sunglasses. He said "...like, where's the set, man". Someone pointed Silverheels in the right direction, and he strode off !!
The story of Herve Villachez is very sad. Most of his career and life were destroyed by alcohol. And fellow midget actor Verne Troyer followed right in his footsteps, losing his career and life also from alcoholism!
The Lone Ranger & Tonto were leading a wagon train one day when they were attacked by a
large indian war party!
The Lone Ranger said,"Tonto,
we had better "circle the wagons"!
Tonto replied,"What do you mean
"we" had better "circle the wagons,
Kimosabe"?!
I heard it in the 60s as "what do you mean 'we' white man?"
Wow😱
My guess is something something Burt Ward
Saddest story to me was Tattoo's, coolest was Tanto's.
Jay Silverheels wasn't a native american....he was a native canadian...or of Canadian aboriginal heritage....
Actually, "Native American" is a term used for any of the native peoples that are indigenous to North, Central, or South America, not just the United States.
OOH YEAH MY PARENTS HOOK ME UP ON THEM
Could you makes a vídeo about the 27 club
They ALL died? Oh no I didn't expect that!
Jay Silverheels being Canadian? No small irony then, that in the 1970s radio spoof series of Lone Ranger, called "The Stoned Ranger", the sidekick was called "Toronto", Toronto being the principal city in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Neil Forbes I remember hearing “the Stoned Ranger” in Montreal back in the 70’s. 😮🤔🤗😑🇨🇦
@@kevinchappell3694 I lived at Stockton(NSW, Australia) in the early 1970s. None of the local stations, 2KO, 2HD or 2NX carried the show, but I found it on an interstate station, 3KZ-Melbourne, Victoria(Melbourne is Victoria's Capital city). Being a long-distance signal, it drifted in and out but I'd listen anyway and the show was a total crack-up.
The French dwarf was former Spanish president Felipe González's lookalike.
I had no idea that Jay Silverheels appeared on The Brady Bunch!
_"SMALL" supporting roles,_ 1:10
I saw what you did there... ☝️🤨
Sorry, but they're called reserves here in Canada, not reservations. Thank you. 😄
Why do they live on reserves, in this day and age it must be by personal choice please tell me that's so
@@RH-wr9ic
Sorry, but I have no idea. I'm not Native & I don't know any Native persons. Probably the same reasons as appeal to those in the United States who live on reservations, I suppose, whatever those are. They are free to live wherever they wish, I do know that. They're not prisoners there. 🤷
@@h.calvert3165 I'm glad to hear that
R H here it’s reservations and they are a separate country. You need cash as they have trouble with the credit card companies. It’s so that they can have their own country/ land in their own land. That’s why it’s reserve/reservation. It’s set aside for them.
@@CatherinePlantagenet I suppose its to keep their identity I'm Welsh and its kind of the same with our language
There is a God Of Comedy and Benny Hill be his name.
oh come one jackiw right was a big time star .......
to me anyway
Why don't you doesn't makes a New videos anymore? i was missing so much.
P.S, I'm not the only one
" ahhh. yes tatoo. which M & M s do you want, the peanut or the plain?," " the plain boss, the plain !!."
@@johnbockelie3899 right
They all went into the banana bread. Delicious!
Re-Run $$$
He’s native north american
You know why Jay Silverheels was crying? Because you have to pay for your star on the HWOF! Unbelievable but true. What a great honour!😂
Mr Silverheels also performed with Clayton Moore in the radio version of The Lone Ranger. I have always wondered how he felt about this conversation from a radio episode.
Lone Ranger, "This country needs more settlers".
Tonto, "That right".
How could Jay Silverheels be "the first Native American to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame," if he was born in Canada?
Isn't Canada part of North America? Native American is for all the American Indians both North & South.
The Americas, or America, are lands in the Western Hemisphere that are also known as the New World. Comprising the continents of North America and South America, along with their associated islands, they cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area. The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that run the length of the west coast. The flatter eastern side of the Americas is dominated by large river basins, such as the Amazon, Mississippi, and La Plata. Extending 14,000 km in a north-south orientation, the climate and ecology varies strongly across the Americas, from arctic tundra of Northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska, to the tropical rain forests in Central America and South America.
@Donald Mackay And Wonder Woman. ☺
By far Jay Silverheels was my favorite.
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Thank you!!
Tonto kicked ass. I cared nothing for the Lone Ranger. He was too "camp". Jay SIlverheels could ride, man, and do his own stunts.
Paris France-WTF.
You know kemosabe means horses arse in Cherokee
Jay Silverheels was 100% Navajo.
He said in an interview he was full blood Mohawk.
Well, Navajo is actually Mohawk which is Cherokee. A lot of these tribes have been in America nearly a hundred years.
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A little trivia. The Lone Ranger is actually a freed slave but of course they couldn't use an African American actor during those highly racist times of the show.
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How does a person makes all that money and burn their bodies?
Average cremation $2000.00; average burial $10,000.00.
Yes they could afford it but why waste the money.
,@@roldanrobles8563 You have an excellent argument but why not be remembered and visited? It's just the idea of that person becoming fertilizer.
THE PLANE LONE RANGE R HILL FUNNY BENN SHOWS
The mystery masked man was smart, he got himself a Tonto
Tonto did his dirty work for free
But Tonto he was was smarter,
and one day said kimosabe
Kiss my ass I bought a boat I'm going out to sea.
And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we'ed be all together
just sailing on that ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat
Makes a what happened to the diff'rent strokes cast
I know a real good lone ranger joke. The lone ranger and tonto was riding hard into town on a super hot day. They stop at the saloon an lone ranger told tonto I'm going in to have a drink, you run around the horses to cool them off. As the lone ranger was having a nice cold drink a cowboy came though the front doors and said, Mr is that your white horse out there. lone ranger replied yes. Then the man said, you left your engine running.
It's Tonto and you told it wrong AND it's not funny.
Some people don't know how to tell a joke. The Lone Ranger's "faithful Indian companion" was named TONTO (stupid in Spanish) not tun-to. Also, the way you wrote the joke makes no sense. The punch line to this old joke is, "You left your INJUN running", not your ENGINE running. If indeed it was engine running, a twist to the joke would be, "You won't go far, he just lost all of his gasoline. (For those of you who don't get it, the horse just had a big bladder emptying.)
Only after he retired did the Lone Ranger discover 'Ke-mo sah-bee' means- the backside of a horse
Stranger: Hey Mister, is that your white horse outside?
LR: Why yes, that is my white horse. Why do you ask?
Stranger: You left your Injun running.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Johnny Depp destroyed tonto