- Jackie Gleason
Herbert John "Jackie" Gleason (February 26, 1916 - June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor, and musician. One of the most popular stars of early television, Gleason was respected for both comedic and dramatic roles. However, his major legacy is a brash visual and verbal comedy, especially as delivered as the character Ralph Kramden on the pioneering sitcom "The Honeymooners". - Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew Carney (November 4, 1918 - November 9, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American actor in film, stage, television, and radio. - Audrey Meadows
Audrey Cotter Six, known professionally as Audrey Meadows, born Audrey Cotter, was an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for playing the deadpan housewife, Alice Kramden in the 1950s American television comedy, "The Honeymooners". According to the Social Security Death Index, Audrey Six (her married name) was born in 1922. Her sister, Jayne Meadows, long claimed to have been born in 1926, … - Joyce Randolph
Joyce Randolph, is a Finnish-American actress, best known for playing Trixie Norton on "The Honeymooners". Randolph was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and moved to New York City in 1943 to pursue an acting career. She took roles on Broadway and landed various television roles. In 1951, she was seen in a Clorets commercial by Jackie Gleason and was asked to appear in a skit on “Cavalcade of Stars", Gleason's variety show on the DuMont Television Network. - Jane Kean
Jane Kean (born April 10, 1924) is an American actress. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Kean and her sister Betty formed a comedy duo that worked the nightclub circuit throughout the 1940s and '50s, and the two appeared on Broadway as sisters in the short-lived 1955 musical "Ankles Aweigh". Kean studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Additional theatre credits include "Call Me Mister" and "Carnival!". - Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch (born on February 2, 1925) is an Irish-American actress and singer. Stritch was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA, to a wealthy, devoutly Roman Catholic family. She is the niece of Samuel Cardinal Stritch, the former Roman Cathlolic Archbishop of Chicago. - Johnny Olson
John Leonard "Johnny" Olson (May 22, 1910 - October 12, 1985) was an American radio personality and television announcer, most notable for announcing 32 game shows from Mark Goodson-Bill Todman productions, from the late 1950s through the mid 1980s. Born in Windom, Minnesota, while landing jobs at WIBA and KGDA in and nearby Madison, Wisconsin after 1928, Olson enrolled in pharmacy classes at the University of Minnesota. He also worked a string of odd jobs, … - Sheila MacRae
Sheila MacRae (born Sheila Margaret Stephens on 24 September, 1924, in London, England) is an actress and author. - Pert Kelton
Pert Kelton (October 14 1907 - October 30 1968) was an American vaudeville, movie, and television actress most famous as the original Alice Kramden on "The Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason. - Joe Piscopo
Joseph Charles John "Joe" Piscopo (born June 17, 1951) is a CableACE Award-winning American comedian known for his work on "Saturday Night Live". Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Piscopo planned to study acting but went into stand-up comedy in the late 1970s. In the summer of 1980 he was hired as a contract player for "S.N.L.". The show had gone through major upheaval, as all the writers, major producers and cast members had left that spring. - Sue Ane Langdon
Sue Ane Langdon (born March 8, 1936 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA) is an actor best known for her performances in two Elvis Presley movies, "Roustabout" and "Frankie and Johnny", and a starring role in the TV series "Arnie", a role that won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Television. She also appeared as the third "Alice Kramden" in Jackie Gleason's "The Honeymooners" sketches and shows, … - Dan Pierson
It's a long story, and it would bore you to tears. - Brent Whiteside
I am a graduate of Sam Houston State University (with Masters and Bachelors degrees in Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement) who has been co-writing movie screenplays for 7 years with a couple of longtime friends. My personal favorite of our scripts is "Dorm Room Psycho", a thriller/comedy about a college student accused of a bizarre series of murders. - Joe Suggs
I just lie here like a slug. It's my only defense. - Susan Wald
I have won many awards for clowning, including make-up and costume categories, parade-ability for my Anchovy, the cutest boat that never sailed. It's what they call a "dummy prop" -- i.e., dummy boats, dummy horses, etc. Perhaps you may have seen clowns carry/wear them to appear as though they are riding in them, when they are really walking in them. - David
- Kelly Heck
I am fun, easy going, yet full of energy. I am self employed, hard working, honest, loyal, and a smoke-drug-alcohol free christian. I love my 2 beautiful daughters, and life. I am a single mom, and a terrific mother. - Terri Hendrickson
- Michael Craft
- Florence Goodman
- Jeffrey Soffer
I work as a background actor in Hollywood, CA on TV and in films. - Alicia Rangel
Well, 1 thing I guess you should know about me... I am always right... No it's NOT what you think... I am just some 1 who thinks their always right.. Dude!! I am always right.. Go ahead Try and prove me wrong JUST ONCE!! I Dare You, Pokemon!!! - Bob
I am a 65years young proud father and grandfather. I love 50's 60's and 70's music and am a true horror buff at heart! I was a mean basketball player in my earlier days and you won't find a more die hard Red Sox fan than me! - Leonard B. Stern
Leonard Stern is one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the word games mad libs. According to the website for MSN movies, he was born December 23 1923 in New York, NY. According to the author website of his publisher, Penguin Books, and the Internet Movie Database, Stern is a successful television writer who wrote for such now classic series such as "Get Smart", "The Honeymooners", "the Phil Silvers Show", … - Jay Jackson
Jay Jackson (1919-Aug 2005) was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer, who is far more familiar for a one-off, fictitious host he played on a legendary situation comedy than he ever was in his decade as a real radio and television performer. For a very brief spell in 1957, Jackson hosted the nighttime version of the popular quiz show "Tic-Tac-Dough", yielding that job to Win Elliott for the remainder of the show's nighttime life (1957-59). - George O. Petrie
George O. Petrie (November 16, 1912-November 16, 1997) was an American actor. His best known appearance is probably in the television drama "Dallas", in which he played the recurring role of Harv Smithfield. In "The Honeymooners" he had recurring character roles throughout the series. Other TV credits include: "The Honeymooners", "Rawhide", "77 Sunset Strip", "The Twilight Zone", "Leave It To Beaver", "Perry Mason", … - Charles Korvin
Charles Korvin (November 21, 1907 - June 18, 1998) was a film and television actor. The Piestany, Hungary-born actor (born Geza Korvin Karpathi) moved to the United States in 1940 after studying at the Sorbonne. Korvin made his stage debut on Broadway in 1943 using the name Geza Korvin. After signing a movie contract with Universal Pictures, he changed his stage name to Charles Korvin. - Howard Harris
Howard Harris (b. February 15 1912, New York City - d. March 22 1986) was a comedy writer whose credits included "Copacabana" (1947) starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda, "The Jackie Gleason Show", "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx, "Gilligan's Island", "Petticoat Junction", and other popular television shows. Howard Harris attended Fordham University School of Law for two years which, according to his family, he hated. - Betty Garde
Betty Garde (September 19, 1905- December 25, 1989) was an American film and television actress. She was best known for playing the role of Aunt Eller in the original Broadway cast of "Oklahoma!," but her long acting career also included film, radio, and television. In film, Philadelphia-born Garde was featured in the 1950 movie "Caged". She also appeared in "Call Northside 777" (1948) and "Cry of the City" (1948). - Jeremiah Morris
Jeremiah Morris (b. Jerome Maurice Gomberg, April 4, 1929, Bronx, New York - March 5, 2006, Culver City, California) was an American actor and television and theater director. Morris, influential in Los Angeles theater, appeared in Broadway plays and on popular television series for close to 40 years and directed television and theater productions - Jackie Gleason
Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools. 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. By the mid-1950s he had turned to writing original music and recording a series of popular and best-selling albums with his orchestra for Capitol Records. Joining ASCAP in 1953, his instrumental compositions include "Melancholy Serenade", "Glamour", "Lover's Rhapsody", "On... - Arthur William Matthew Carney
Brother of actor/director Fred Carney. Father of actor Brian Carney. He was the voice of "Red Lantern:The Fish Priminister" on "The Land Of The Lost" children's radio show, which also starred Mae Questel and Naomi Lewis. "The Land Of The Lost" was heard on The ABC Radio Network during the mid 1940s. Mr. Carney also performed on another TV puppet special with "The Bil & Cora Baird Puppets" - "Art Carney Meets The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on The ABC TV Network. The show aired in the early... - Frank Marth
He was a regular on "Cavalcade of Stars" (1949) (1950-1957) and specifically "The Honeymooners" (1955) playing police officers, photographers, newsmen, and various neighbors and passersby. Like his co-star George Petrie, he had the ability to take on many roles, faces and accents. - Audrey Meadows
Audrey Meadows was born the youngest of four children as Audrey Cotter on February 8, 1926 in Wu'chang China. Her family settled in New England when Audrey was 6 and Jayne and Audrey attended and all girls boarding school. After high school, Jayne went to NYC with the goal of being an actress, and Jayne finally convinced her little sister to join her in show business, but as a singer instead of an actress. Audrey spent months working on the Broadway show "Top Banana" and then got a job... - Sammy Spear
Conductor and trumpeter. As Sammy Shapiro, he was a trumpet sideman for NBC who always wanted to lead an orchestra, and his opportunity for that came on June 4, 1949 at the premiere of the new DuMont Television Network variety hour "Cavalcade of Stars". Later he would lead the orchestra on the series of Frank Fontaine albums that followed Fontaine's popularity as a songster from his appearances as a crooner on the Jackie Gleason programs. - Jack Etra
- Frank Satenstein
- Leonard Anderson
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