Famous, notorious and noteworthy Buddies in Film and The Arts

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There are no rails. Please read the OP and if you have doubts, see my other posts. I have been trying to stretch the boundaries of what “buddies” can be taken to mean.

It’s not automatic that couples count as buddies, but they shouldn’t be ruled out on that count. The Beatles were more than a band (or were when they were at their peak) and can legitimately be seen as buddies. The Stones might qualify, Allman Brothers, many others, but just being in a band doesn’t automatically mean buddies.

Football and baseball teams might (in rare cases) be buddies, basketball and hockey teams probably more so, and some performing duos may count. I listed a few I thought might qualify.

There are no rails!

Just clarifying my intent in the thread, not picking on you, Equipoise. In fact, my third entry, Newman and Redford, was primarily because of your Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, although The Sting amplified their buddyhood.

The idea of the thread is to list candidates for what might later – in another thread – become a vote-off for the Top 10 or Best or whatever. Right now, though, shoot from the hip.

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Augustus and Marcus Agrippa

“The Shield” strike team (until the end)

Sixty and Nine :wink:

Cain and Abel (until the end)

John Ford and John Wayne

Thing 1 and Thing 2

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Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday
Andy Griffith and Don Knotts
Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody
Nancy and Sluggo
Randolph Scott and Cary Grant
Jim Kiick and Larry Csonka
Bones and Booth

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The Marx Brothers
Simon and Garfunkel
Tom and Jerry
Itchy and Scratchy
Heckle and Jeckle
Quickstraw and Babalouie

I did this once in a bar with a friend of mine. We ran of out duos in about 4 hours but I think it was because we were very, very drunk.

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Aubrey and Maturin

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I saw Boris and natasha but didn’t see Rocky and Bulwinkle.

Bugs and (Daffy or Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam)
Road Runner and Coyote
Sylvester and Tweetie
Tom and Jerry
Aubry and Maturin

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The Kliq

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John Wayne & Maureen O’Hara
John Wayne & Ward Bond
Clint Eastwood & Sondra Locke
Burt Reynolds & Sally Field
Penn & Teller

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Which reminded me of:

Philo Beddoe and Clyde

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Jake and Elwood.

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For several of the old B-Western cowboys the sidekicks got shuffled around enough that not many duos were permanent and loyalties moved from one star to another or from one sidekick to the other and you’d just have to pick a personal favorite from the lot. However,

Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette
Gene Autry and Pat Buttram
Durango Kid and Smiley Burnette
Sunset Carson and Smiley Burnette
Roy Rogers and Pat Brady
Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes
Buster Crabbe and Al “Fuzzy” St John
Lash LaRue and Al “Fuzzy” St John

I could add others, but maybe these have helped you think of others and I won’t be the only one showing my age.

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Bob Hope & Bing Crosby. With Dorothy Lamour, once in a while.

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Bogart and Bacall

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Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Damon and Pythias
Frog and Toad
Frodo and Samwise
Achilles and Patroclus
Hunahpu and Xbalanque
Castor and Pollux

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Hepburn & Tracy

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Natty Bumppo, a white man who grew up among Native Americans, and his Mohican “brother” Chingachgook, in the Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Fred Colon and Nobby Nobbs
Death of Rats and Quoth
Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg
The Silver Horde

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Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Not just as the Blues Brothers, they also were in 1941 and The Neighbors and made a great duo on SNL.

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Hawk & Fisher ( Hawk & Fisher novels ) ( if fantasy “buddy cops” who are also married count )

Valentinian and Anastasius ( Belisarius series )

Bahzell Bahnakson & Brandark Brandarkson ( Orfressa Cycle )

Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser

Lord Darcy & Master Sean O’Lochlainn ( Lord Darcy stories )