Red Skelton
Acting
Born July 18, 1913 · Vincennes, Indiana, USA
Biography
The son of a former circus clown turned grocer and a cleaning woman, Red Skelton was introduced to show business at the age of 7 by Ed Wynn, at a vaudeville show in Vincennes. At age 10, he left home to travel with a medicine show through the Midwest, and joined the vaudeville circuit at age 15. At age 17, he married Edna Marie Stilwell, an usher who became his vaudeville partner and later his chief writer and manager. He debuted on Broadway and radio in 1937 and on film in 1938. His ex-wife/manager negotiated a seven-year Hollywood contract for him in 1951, the same year The Red Skelton Hour…
Known For · 40 titles
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Bob Hope Show
The Red Skelton Show
What's My Line?
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Climax!
The Steve Allen Show
The Jack Benny Program
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Oscars
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
This Is Your Life
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Around the World in 80 Days
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Ocean's Eleven
Bathing Beauty
Texaco Star Theater
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment, Part II
Susan Slept Here
Du Barry Was a Lady
Ziegfeld Follies
Twenty Years After
Neptune's Daughter
A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride
That's Dancing!
Three Little Words
A Southern Yankee
The Fuller Brush Girl
Having Wonderful Time
Television: The First Fifty Years
Pioneers of Primetime
The Big Parade of Comedy
Seeing Red
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Clown Alley
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
I Dood It