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| x Red Skelton |
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Red Skelton (July 18, 1913–September 17, 1997), born Richard Bernard Skelton, 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...
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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 roles as Manny Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure and Grandpa Joe...
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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 New York City, New York, the son of Frances (née...
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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 American comedian and actor, 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 comedian...
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| x W. C. Fields |
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William Claude Dukenfield, known as W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946) was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a...
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| x Jackie Gleason |
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Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. , baptized as John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason, (February 26, 1916–June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor and musician. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph...
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| x Bob Hope |
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Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG (born Leslie Townes Hope; May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an 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...
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| x Bert Lahr |
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Bert Lahr (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was a Tony Award-winning American actor and comedian. Lahr is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion and the farmworker Zeke in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but was well...
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| x Pinky Lee |
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Pincus Leff (May 2, 1907, Saint Paul, Minnesota – April 3, 1993, Mission Viejo, California), better known as Pinky Lee, was a burlesque comic and host of a children's television program, The Pinky Lee Show, in the early 1950s.
Lee worked as comic of...
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| x Rags Ragland |
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...
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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, known as "The King of Chutzpah." 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...
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| x Lou Costello |
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Louis Francis "Lou" Costello (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 image that has...
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