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Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), 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 other B-movie cowboys. [1]
Smiley Burnette. Actor: Galloping Thunder. Smiley worked on a local radio station and in Vaudeville after high school. Always interested in music, he was friends with Gene Autry and worked with him on the radio show "The National Barn Dance".
Smiley Burnette. Actor: Galloping Thunder. Smiley worked on a local radio station and in Vaudeville after high school. Always interested in music, he was friends with Gene Autry and worked with him on the radio show "The National Barn Dance".
This is the official web site dedicated to the memory and works of Lester Alvin Burnett, known to the world as Smiley Burnette - Star of Movies, Records, Radio, and TV
Smiley Burnette was a native of Illinois. In fact, he had never been west of the Illinois borders until he and Gene Autry came out to California to find out what Movies might have to offer two musicians/songwriters/singers. Smiley's talents were extremely diverse.
Smiley Burnette created the Western music standard "Ridin' Down the Canyon" and was a prolific composer of songs for Hollywood's singing-cowboy Westerns. He also wrote many novelty songs for children and the Australian cowboy classic "My Pinto Pony and I."
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, pla...
Smiley Burnette sings “Five Man Band” from Gene Autry’s 1936 Republic Pictures movie “The Old Corral.”© Autry Qualified Interest Trust and The Autry Foundati...
Boots and Saddles is a 1937 American western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette and Judith Allen. It was produced and distributed by Republic Pictures.
ENCINO, Calif., Feb. 17 (AP) --Smiley Burnette, for years the comic partner of Gene Autry in Western movies died last night at the West Valley Hospital. He was 55 years old.
