Two Hundred Eleven 20Th Century Comedian / Actors

Larry Goldbeck M.D.

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Comedy is centuries old. In Medieval Times monarchs were entertained by court jesters. Melodramas provided boredom and stress relief for the pioneers of America’s West.
The Nineteenth Century brought vaudeville and burlesque and entertainment jobs for many early comedians. Many of these passed on to their children their comedic skills. These 20th Century comedians are the subject of this book. They moved from burlesque and vaudeville to radio, Broadway, films, and some into television. Some remained “full-time” comedians and some chose serious acting roles at times.

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• Fiction

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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 12 janvier 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664153707
• Langue: English

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TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN 20TH CENTURY COMEDIAN / ACTORS
Larry Goldbeck, M.D.

Copyright © 2023 by Larry Goldbeck, M.D.
Library of Congress Control Number:
2021901486
ISBN:
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978-1-6641-5372-1

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978-1-6641-5371-4

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
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Larry Goldbeck, M.D. completed the writing of this book in 2020 and passed away in January 2021.
 
 
 
Rev. date: 01/12/2023
 
 
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Contents
Foreword
Dedication
Regarding Terminology
Two Hundred Eleven Comedian Actors Of The Twentieth Century
Stage Names And Birth Names
Fifty-Four 20 th Century Comedians Of Jewish Ancestry
Comedians Who Were Born Or Raised In Brooklyn
Comedians Who Were Born Or Raised In Areas Of New York City Other Than Brooklyn
 
Bud Abbott
Don Adams
Fred Allen
Gracie Allen
Marty Allen
Steve Allen
Fran Allison
Morey Amsterdam
Eddie Anderson
Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle
Eve Arden
Beatrice Arthur
Jean Arthur
Jim Backus
Lucille Ball
Orson Bean
Robert C. Benchley
William Bendix
Jack Benny
Edgar Bergen
Milton Berle
Shelley Berman
Joey Bishop
Victor Borge
Eddie Bracken
David Brenner
Fanny Brice
Lenny Bruce
Edgar Buchanan Jr.
George Burns
Charles Butterworth
Red Buttons
Sid Caesar
Godfrey Cambridge
John Candy
Judy Canova
Eddie Cantor
George Carlin
Art Carney
Johnny Carson
Jack Carter
Carol Channing
Charles Chaplin
Imogene Coca
Myron Cohen
Jerry Colonna
Tim Conway
Jackie Coogan
Irwin Corey
Charles Correll (Andy Brown Of Amos ’N’ Andy)
Lou Costello
Wally Cox
Robert “Bob” Cummings
Tony Curtis
Bill Daily
Bill Dana
Rodney Dangerfield
Joan Davis (Comedienne)
Dom DeLuise
William Demarest
Bob Denver
Andy Devine
Phyllis Diller
Margaret Dumont
Jimmy Durante
Buddy Ebsen
Bob Elliott (Radio Comedian)
Leon Errol
Chris Farley
Frank Fay
Marty Feldman
Norman Fell
Stepin Fetchit
Totie Fields
W. C. Fields
Larry Fine (of Three Stooges)
Frank Fontaine
Paul Ford
Redd Foxx
Eddie Foy Sr.
William Frawley
Stan Freberg
David Frost
Ed Gallagher
Estelle Getty
Jackie Gleason
George Gobel
Leo Gorcey
Gale Gordon
Frank Gorshin
Freeman Gosden (Amos)
Ray Goulding (Radio Comedian)
Cary Grant
Dick Gregory
Andy Griffith
Buddy Hackett
Alan Hale Jr.
Oliver Hardy
Phil Hartman
Hugh Herbert
Bill Hicks
Benny Hill
Judy Holliday
Bob Hope
Betty Hutton
Marty Ingels
John Inman
George “Georgie” Jessel
Arte Johnson
Al Jolson
Fibber Mcgee And Molly (a.k.a. Jim and Marian Jordan)
Madeline Kahn
Andy Kaufman
Danny Kaye
Buster Keaton
Edgar Kennedy
Percy Kilbride
Alan King
George Kirby
Don Knotts
Harvey Korman
Ernie Kovacs
Bert Lahr
Arthur Lake
Veronica Lake
Elsa Lanchester
Harry Langdon
Stan Laurel
Pinky Lee
Jack Lemmon
Jack E. Leonard
Jerry Lewis
Joe E. Lewis
Beatrice Lillie
George Lindsey
Mary Livingston
Harold Lloyd
Myrna Loy
Paul Lynde
Moms Mabley
Bernie Mac
Rose Marie
Dewey “Pigmeat” Markham
Penny Marshall
Dean Martin (Singer Comedian)
Chico Marx
Groucho Marx
Harpo Marx
Walter Matthau
Anne Meara
Una Merkel
Dudley Moore
Garry Moore
Mary Tyler Moore
Tim Moore
Victor Moore
Zero Mostel
Jim Nabors
Leslie Nielsen
Jack Oakie
Carroll O’connor
Jack Paar
Minnie Pearl
Harold Peary
Joe Penner
Zasu Pitts
Tom Poston
Richard Pryor
Edna Purviance
Gilda Radner
Tony Randall
Carl Reiner
Don Rickles
John Ritter
Joan Rivers
Will Rogers
Mickey Rooney
Dan Rowan
Charlie Ruggles
Nipsey Russell
Soupy Sales
Peter Sellers
Gary Shandling
Phil Silvers
Red Skelton
Ann Sothern
Hanley Stafford
Jean Stapleton
Harry Steppe
Gale Storm
The Three Stooges
Danny Thomas
Terry-Thomas
Sophie Tucker
Ben Turpin
Vivian Vance
Nancy Walker
Charles Weaver (a.k.a. Cliff Arquette)
Señor Wences
Mae West
Gene Wilder
Bert Williams
Robin Williams
Flip Wilson
Jonathan Winters
Ed Wynn
Alan Young
Gig Young
Roland Young
Henny Youngman
 
About The Author
References
Foreword
For an Encyclopedic Collection of Data
Comedy is centuries old. In Medieval Times, monarchs were entertained by court jesters. Melodramas provided boredom and stress relief for the pioneers of America’s West.
The Nineteenth Century brought vaudeville and burlesque and entertainment jobs for many early comedians. Many of these passed on to their children their comedic skills. These 20 th Century comedians are the subject of this book. They moved from burlesque and vaudeville to radio, Broadway, films, and some into television. Some remained “full-time” comedians, and some chose serious acting roles at times. (An asterisk appears before their names in the complete list of performers.)
All information in this book is public. The reader is free to use any of its contents. The author took greatly fragmental data and consolidated it into a readable book.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of the wonderful, talented comedians of the past who lifted the spirits and brought happy moments to millions of people.
Regarding Terminology
The words comedian and comedienne are used throughout. Like the word actor, comedian is acceptable for female or male . Comedienne (from French) applies only to a female comic.
Definition of comedian
1archaic
a: a writer of comedies
b: an actor who plays comic roles
2: a comical individual specifically : a professional entertainer who uses any of various physical or verbal means to be amusing.
Definition of comedienne
: a woman who is a comedian
History and Etymology for comedienne
French comedienne , feminine of comedien comedian, from comedie
Definition of vaudeville
Vaudeville, a farce with music. In the United States the term connotes a light entertainment popular from the mid-1890s that consisted of 10 to 15 individual unrelated acts featuring magicians, acrobats, comedians, trained animals, jugglers, singers, and dancers.
Two Hundred Eleven Comedian Actors Of The Twentieth Century
KEY: *indicates not thought of as “full-time” comedians, but who did excellent comedy roles occasionally.
A
Abbott, Bud
Adams, Don
Allen, Fred
Allen, Gracie
Allen, Marty
Allen, Steve
Allison, Fran
Amsterdam, Morey
Anderson, Eddie “Rochester”
Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty”
* Arden, Eve
Arthur, Bea
* Arthur, Jean
B
Backus, Jim
Ball, Lucille
* Bean, Orson
* Benchley, Robert
* Bendix, William
Benny, Jack
Bergen, Edgar
Berle, Milton
Berman, Shelley
* Bishop, Joey
Borge, Victor
Bracken, Eddie
Brenner, David
* Brice, Fanny
Brown, Joe E.
Bruce, Lenny
Buchanan, Edgar, Jr.
* Burns, George
Butterworth, Charles
* Buttons, Red
C
Caesar, Sid
Cambridge, Godfrey
Candy, John
Canova, Judy
Cantor, Eddie
Carlin, George
Carney, Art
Carson, Johnny
Carter, Jack
Channing, Carol
* Chaplin, Charles
Coca, Imogene
Cohen, Myron
Colonna, Jerry
Conway, Tim
Coogan, Jackie
Corey, Irwin
Correll, Charles
Costello, Lou
* Cox, Wally
Cummings, Bob
Curtis, Tony
D
Daily, Bill
Dana, Bill
* Dangerfield, Rodney
* Davis, Joan
DeLuise, Dom
* Demarest, William
Denver, Bob
Devine, Andy
* Diller, Phyllis
Dumont, Margaret
Durante, Jimmy
E
Ebsen, Buddy
Elliott, Bob
Errol, Leon
F
Farley, Chris
Fay, Frank
Feldman, Marty
* Fell, Norman
Fetchit, Stepin
Fields, Totie
* Fields, W. C.
Fine, Larry
Fontaine, Frank
* Ford, Paul
* Foxx, Red
Foy, Eddie, Sr.
* Frawley, William
Freberg, Stan
* Frost, David
G
Gallagher, Ed
Getty, Estelle
Gleason, Jackie
Gobel, George
Gorcey, Leo