Comedian, saxophonist, composer, actor and musician, he performed within the orchestras of Martin Short was born on March 26, 1950 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as Martin Hayter Short. a list of 90 people Joe Roberts was born on February 2, 1871 in Albany, New York, USA. The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. A peerless sketch performer and delightful, self-effacing personality who rightfully succeeded The last of the female physical and musical comedians, her TV variety show series (1967-78) mainstained a high level of comedy and musical numbers for its entire run. The 1960s provided even more opportunities for comedians to find a niche with the television audience. When I had the idea for this list, I thought in honor Her mother was a nurse's aide and her father was a factory worker. Watch free comedy movies and TV shows online in HD on any device.
From ... His concert career began in 1922, and he performed in a musical revue in 1934, and in films by 1937. In an era when women are deemed 'not funny enough' it seems film history has forgotten her contributions. Art Carney was an American actor with a lengthy career, but is primarily remembered for two roles. Karl Valentin was born on June 4, 1882 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany as Valentin Ludwig Fey. Famed vaudeville comedian Bobby Clark was born in Springfield, Ohio on June 16, 1888. Register. Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) was an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. In 1914 he left Karno and began making silent films for director Henry "Pathe" Lehrman's L-Ko Comedy studios and then... Chaplin borrowed her baggy trousers and his coconut hat to make up the character Carlito Supposedly kidnapped by circus performers at age six, he became an accomplished tightrope walker before returning home two years later. He remained with Sennett until 1917 when he started numerous aristocratic roles in films. In 1913 he was hired by
Like many another pretty girl, Edna Murphy got to Hollywood via modeling. He was an actor and director, known for Phil Silvers was born on May 11, 1911 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Philip Silver.
He was an actor and writer, known for Bizarre, nearly ghoulish appearance, bizarre sense of comedy. Paul Reubens was born Paul Rubenfeld on August 27, 1952 in Peekskill, New York, to Judy (Rosen), a teacher, and Milton Rubenfeld, a car salesman who had flown for the air forces of the U.S., U.K., and Israel, becoming one of the latter country's pioneering pilots. She was a sickly child and her father left the family when she was very young. Lou Costello was born Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson, New Jersey, to Helen (Rege) and Sebastiano Cristillo. (of which a 30-minute fragment can sometimes be found on VHS) is the most representative film of her work. She sang in a family trio act with her mother, Lucy, and her piano-playing older sister, Muriel. Ford Sterling was born on November 3, 1883 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA as George Ford Stich. Anita Frances Garvin was born in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York, the youngest of 3 children to Ann Frances Donovan, who was half Irish and half Blackfoot Indian, and Edward Garvin, an engineer who was killed in an accident when Anita was 6. His schlemiel with chutzpah characterization presaged Danny Kaye's schnook and Woody Allen's sexually-stirred nerd. Ferenc Futurista was born on December 7, 1891 in Prague, Austria-Hungary as Frantisek Fiala. She trained to be a ballerina and worked in chorus lines when she was a teenager. Eccentric comedy dancer, physical comedian and character actor. He was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver and a disc jockey., and later a comedian in night clubs.
Seldom did she work fast (one rare occasion was in Go West when she was preparing to sing opera). Danny Kaye left school at the age of 13 to work in the so-called Borscht Belt of Jewish resorts in the Catskill Mountains. Monty Banks was a short, stocky but somehow debonair Italian-born comic actor, later also writer and director. Raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the young Zero, known as Sammy, developed his talent for painting and drawing at art classes provided by the ... Ironically, it was this disability that would enhance his comic value ... A mining engineer's daughter, blond, blue-eyed Betty Compson began in show business playing violin in a Salt Lake City vaudeville establishment for $15 a week. He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. Langdon first performed when he ran away from home at the age of 12-13 to join a travelling medicine show. Being one of numerous important comedians during the silent era whose popularity has turned into almost complete obscurity, Lloyd Hamilton has nevertheless earned a reputation as an original talent among film historians and enthusiasts. The latter was a revival of a show that originally starred Sid Caesar in multiple madcap comedy roles, the type of feat that Bert Lahr mastered.