Red Buttons
Acting
Born February 5, 1919 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Although Red Buttons is best known as a stand-up comic, he is also a successful songwriter, an Academy Award-winning actor (and has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards) and an accomplished singer. Born Aaron Chwatt on February 5, 1919 (Aquarius) in New York City's Lower East Side, stood at a height of 5' 6" (1.68 m). Buttons (who got his name from a uniform he wore while working as a singing bellhop), also known as Cpl. Red Buttons, started his show-business career singing on street corners as a child. At 16 he got a job as part of a comedy act playing the famed Catskills resort area in…
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
ER
The Mike Douglas Show
The Love Boat
Great Performances
The Merv Griffin Show
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Little House on the Prairie
Love, American Style
What's My Line?
Knots Landing
Fantasy Island
The Cosby Show
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Studio One
Early Edition
Suspense
The Ed Sullivan Show
Ben Casey
The Oscars
The Dean Martin Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The United States Steel Hour
Kraft Music Hall
Family Law
227
Vega$
It's Garry Shandling's Show
Wonder Woman
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Password
Cosby
The Jackie Gleason Show
Street Time
The Hollywood Palace
Startime
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Eleventh Hour
The Longest Day
The Poseidon Adventure