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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 Fred Allen |
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Fred Allen (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), born John Florence Sullivan, was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era...
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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 (May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor.
Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the son of Barbara, who was of Irish and German descent, and Felix Ameche, an immigrant from Italy whose original surname...
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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, famous for his ready supply of jokes. He is best remembered for his role as Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the early 1960s....
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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 actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel...
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| x Jack Benny |
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Jack Benny (February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974), born Benjamin Kubelsky, 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...
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| x Edgar Bergen |
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Edgar John Bergen (February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.
Bergen was born Edgar John Bergren in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Swedish immigrants Nilla Svensdotter (née Osberg...
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| x Milton Berle |
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Milton Berle (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 US television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
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| x Ray Bolger |
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Raymond Wallace "Ray" Bolger (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 was born Raymond...
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| x Walter Brennan |
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Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor. Highly regarded as a film character actor, Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times. He is tied with Jack Nicholson for the most Academy Award wins...
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| x George Burns |
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George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, 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...
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| x Eddie Cantor |
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Eddie Cantor (January 31 1892 – October 10 1964) was an American comedian, dancer, 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...
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| x Charlie Chaplin |
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Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid...
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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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| x Sammy Davis, Jr. |
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Samuel George Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer.
Primarily a dancer and singer, Davis was a childhood vaudevillian, and became internationally famous for his performances on Broadway and Las Vegas, as a...
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| x Sammy Davis, Sr. |
Sammy Davis, Sr. (December 12, 1900 – May 21, 1988) was an American dancer and the father of Sammy Davis, Jr..
Sammy Davis, Sr. was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He and his wife Elvera Sanchez were both vaudeville dancers. They split up when...
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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 and movie icon, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose – his frequent...
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| x Buddy Ebsen |
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Buddy Ebsen (April 2, 1908 – July 6, 2003) was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the 1960s television series, The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the...
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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 and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and...
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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 March 9, 1856, in Greenwich Village, New York City; died February 16, 1928, Kansas City, Missouri), was an actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian.
Foy's parents, Richard and Mary Fitzgerald immigrated to the...
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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 over 31 years, from 1926 to 1957. Hardy...
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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 Curly Howard |
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Jerome Lester "Jerry" Horwitz better known by his stage name Curly Howard (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952) was an American comedian and vaudevillian, best known as a member of the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges, along with his...
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| x Moe Howard |
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Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz, June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975) was an American comedian best known as the leader of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades. His distinctive...
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| x Samuel Howard |
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Shemp Howard (March 4, 1895 – November 22, 1955) was an American comedian best known as a part of the Three Stooges comedy team. Born Samuel Horwitz, he was called "Shemp" because "Sam" came out that way in his mother's thick Litvak accent. He was...
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| x George Jessel |
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George Jessel (3 April 1898 – 23 May 1981) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning movie producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level of recognition that transcended...
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| x Danny Kaye |
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Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian.
Born David Daniel Kaminsky to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Brooklyn, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He spent his early...
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| x Buster Keaton |
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Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton VI (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the...
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| x Walter Kelly |
Walter C. Kelly (29 October 1873 in Mineville, New York - 6 January 1939 in Philadelphia, PA) was a Vaudeville comedian. He was the uncle of actress Grace Kelly (Princess of Monaco). He appeared in several Broadway productions and in several movies....
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| x Stan Laurel |
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Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the...
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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 Jerry Lewis |
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Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director, singer and humanitarian. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, recording and is also known for his...
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| x Leonard Marx |
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Leonard "Chico" Marx (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was the eldest of the Marx Brothers.
He was originally nicknamed Chicko for his reputation as a ladies' man, or a "chicken chaser" in the popular slang of the day. A typesetter accidentally...
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| x Groucho Marx |
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Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit.
He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of which he was the third-born. He also had a successful...
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| x Gummo Marx |
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Milton "Gummo" Marx (October 23 1893 - April 21 1977) was the fourth-born of the Marx Brothers. Born in New York City, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, but left acting when he was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War I,...
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| x Harpo Marx |
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Arthur Adolph "Harpo" Marx (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964), born Adolph Arthur Marx, was the second-born of the Marx Brothers and a unique comic performer whose style was influenced by clown and pantomime traditions. He was well known by...
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| x Zeppo Marx |
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Herbert Manfred "Zeppo" Marx (February 25, 1901 – November 30, 1979) was the youngest of the five Marx Brothers. He appeared in the first five Marx Brothers films, but then left the act for a career as a theatrical agent.
There are different...
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| x Sam Marx |
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Samuel Marx, born Simon Marx (October 23, 1859 – May 10, 1933), was the husband of Minnie Marx, and father of the Marx Brothers.
He was born in Mertzwiller, Alsace, France in 1859, and he died on May 10, 1933 in Los Angeles, California. He met...
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| x Donald O'Connor |
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Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule....
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| x Will Rogers |
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William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. He was the father of U.S. Representative and WWII veteran Will Rogers, Jr....
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| x Mickey Rooney |
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Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy...
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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 Philip Silversmith in...
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| x Mae West |
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Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.
Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to...
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| x Ed Wynn |
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Ed Wynn (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966) was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.
Born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in...
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| x Henny Youngman |
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Henry "Henny" Youngman (March 16, 1906 – February 24, 1998) was a British-born comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners," short, simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. His best known (and oft misattributed) one-liner was "Take my wife...
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| x Jan Murray |
Jan Murray (October 4, 1916 - July 2, 2006) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and game show host who made his name on the Borscht Belt.
Murray was born Murray Janofsky in The Bronx, New York City. His interest in comedy began during his...
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| x Joe E. Lewis |
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Joe E. Lewis (January 12, 1902 – 4 June 1971), born Joseph Klewan in New York City, was an American comedian and singer.
In 1927, Lewis refused the request of Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn (an Al Capone lieutenant) to renew a contract that would have...
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| x Chic Johnson |
Chic Johnson (15 March 1891 – 28 February 1962, born Harold Ogden Johnson of Swedish descent in Chicago ) was the barrel-chested half of the Swedish-American comedy team of Olsen and Johnson, known for his strangely infectious, high-pitched laugh....
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| x Ole Olsen |
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John Siguard "Ole" Olsen (6 November 1892 – 26 January 1963) was an American vaudevillian and comedian.
Born in Peru, Indiana, he graduated from Northwestern University in 1912 with a degree in music and hit the Vaudeville circuit. In 1914 he met...
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| x Cary Grant |
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Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was a British-American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost...
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