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| x Red Skelton |
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Richard Bernard “Red” Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian who was best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to...
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| x Bud Abbott |
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William Alexander “Bud” Abbott (October 2, 1895 – April 24, 1974) was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.
Abbott was born in Asbury Park,...
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| x Jack Albertson |
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Jack Albertson (June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981) was an American character actor dating to vaudeville. A comedian, dancer, singer, and musician, Albertson is perhaps best known for his role as Grandpa Joe in the 1971 version of Willy Wonka and the...
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| x Robert Alda |
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Robert Alda (February 26, 1914 – May 3, 1986) born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo, was an American actor. He was the father of actor Alan Alda.
Alda, an Italian American, was born in Annapolis, Maryland to Anthony and Frances T. D...
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| x Fanny Brice |
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Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances but is best remembered as the creator and star of the top-rated radio...
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| x Leon Errol |
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Leon Errol (July 3, 1881 - October 12, 1951). was an Australian-born comedian and actor in the United States, popular in the first half of the 20th century. Born Leonce Errol Sims in Sydney, he managed a traveling vaudeville troupe and gave a young...
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| x W. C. Fields |
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W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946) was an American juggler, comedian, and actor. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century—a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but...
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| x Jackie Gleason |
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Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. , baptized John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor and musician.
One of his most famous trademark was his brash visual and verbal comedy styling, especially as...
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| x Bob Hope |
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Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), was an English-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his...
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| x Bert Lahr |
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Bert Lahr (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was a German-Jewish American Tony Award-winning comic actor and vaudeville comedian.
Born Irving Lahrheim in New York City, Lahr is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion and the Kansas...
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| x Pinky Lee |
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Pinky Lee (May 2, 1907, Saint Paul, Minnesota–April 3, 1993, Mission Viejo, California), born Pincus Leff, was a male burlesque comic and host of the children's television program, The Pinky Lee Show in the early 1950s.
Lee worked as comic of the ...
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| x Rags Ragland | Person |
Rags Ragland (b.John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland, August 23, 1905, Louisville, Kentucky; d. August 20, 1946, Los Angeles, California) was an American comedian and character actor. Ragland first made his reputation in burlesque, where he was one of...
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| x Phil Silvers |
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Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko.
Born Fischl Silver in...
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| x Lou Costello |
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Lou Costello (born Louis Francis Cristillo; March 6, 1906 - March 3, 1959), was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut...
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