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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 Fred Allen |
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Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan May 31, 1894 - March 17, 1956) was an American comedian whose absurdist, pointed radio show (1934–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era of American...
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| x Gracie Allen |
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Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), better known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to the...
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| x Don Ameche |
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Don Ameche (born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor.
Ameche was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the son of Barbara, who was of Irish and German descent, and Felix Ameche, an immigrant from Italy whose original...
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| x Morey Amsterdam |
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Morey Amsterdam (December 14, 1908 – October 27, 1996) was a veteran American television actor and comedian, renowned for his large, ready supply of jokes. He is probably best known for his role as Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the...
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| x Eddie Anderson |
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Edmund Lincoln Anderson (September 18, 1905 – February 28, 1977), often known as Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, was an American comic actor who became famous playing "Rochester van Jones" (usually known simply as "Rochester"), the valet to Jack Benny's...
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| x Roscoe Arbuckle |
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Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter.
Arbuckle is noted as one of the most popular actors of his era, but he is best remembered for a heavily publicized...
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| x Jack Benny |
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Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film.
Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny was...
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| x Edgar Bergen |
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Edgar John Bergen (February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an Academy Award-winning American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.
Bergen was born Edgar John Bergren in Chicago, Illinois, to a Swedish family and grew up in...
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| x Milton Berle |
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Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an Emmy-winning American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948-55), he was the first major star of television and as such became known as...
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| x Ray Bolger |
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Ray Bolger (born Raymond Wallace Bulcao January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hunk in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.
Bolger spent...
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| x Walter Brennan |
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Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was a three-time Academy Award winning American actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history.
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts less than two miles from his...
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| x George Burns |
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George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor and writer.
His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke...
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| x Eddie Cantor |
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Eddie Cantor (January 31, 1892 - October 10, 1964) was an American comedian, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway, radio and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a family member by millions because...
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| x Charlie Chaplin |
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Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning English comedic actor and director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker,...
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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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| x Sammy Davis, Jr. |
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Samuel George “Sammy” Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. He was a dancer, singer, multi-instrumentalist (vibraphone, trumpet, and drums), impressionist, comedian, convert to Judaism, and Emmy and Golden Globe...
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| x Sammy Davis, Sr. | Person |
Sammy Davis, Sr. (December 12, 1900 – May 21, 1988) was an American dancer and the father of Sammy Davis, Jr..
Sammy Davis was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He and his wife Elvera Sanchez were both vaudeville dancers. They split up when their...
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| x Jimmy Durante |
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James Francis “Jimmy” Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose — his frequent jokes about it...
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| x Buddy Ebsen |
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Buddy Ebsen (April 2, 1908 – July 6, 2003) was a versatile American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he is best remembered for his starring role as Jed Clampett in the popular 1960s television series, The Beverly...
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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 Larry Fine |
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Larry Fine (October 5, 1902–January 24, 1975) was an American comedian and actor, who is best-known as a member of the comedy act, the Three Stooges.
Fine was born to a Jewish family as Louis Feinberg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the corner of...
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| x Eddie Foy |
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Eddie Foy, Sr. (born Edwin Fitzgerald Foy March 9, 1856, in Greenwich Village, New York City; died February 16, 1928, Kansas City, Missouri), was an actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian.
When his Irish immigrant father died in 1862, six-year-old...
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| x Oliver Hardy |
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Oliver Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 40 years. Hardy’s star on the...
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| x Bob Hope | |||