Red Skelton
Gender: Male
Born: 18th July 1913
Died: 17th September 1997
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Red Skelton Show, The Garry Moore Show, The Red Skelton Show, The Red Skelton Show, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, The Milton Berle Show, Playhouse 90, Shower of Stars, Climax!
Movies: Three Little Words, Bathing Beauty, Having Wonderful Time, Lady Be Good, A Southern Yankee, Ziegfeld Follies, Ship Ahoy, Duchess of Idaho, I Dood It, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, The Fuller Brush Girl, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Yellow Cab Man, Neptune's Daughter, Whistling in Brooklyn, The Fuller Brush Man, Maisie Gets Her Man, Merton of the Movies, DuBarry Was a Lady, Whistling in Dixie, Whistling in the Dark, Texas Carnival, Public Pigeon No. One, , , Half a Hero, Rudolph's Shiny New Year, Lovely to Look At, Ocean's Eleven, Watch the Birdie, Rudolph's Shiny New Year, Excuse My Dust, Susan Slept Here, The Clown, Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day, Panama Hattie, The People vs. Dr. Kildare, Flight Command, The Show Off, Watch the Birdie, Watch the Birdie, Texas Carnival
Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American entertainer best known for being a national radio and television comedian between 1937 and 1971. Skelton, who has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, began his show business career in his teens as a circus clown and continued on vaudeville and Broadway and in films, radio, TV, night clubs, and casinos, all while he pursued an entirely separate career as an artist.
Born in Vincennes, Indiana, Richard Skelton was the fourth son of Ida Mae (née Fields) and Joseph E. Skelton (1878–1913). Joseph, a grocer, died two months before his last child was born; he had once been a clown with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. In Skelton's lifetime there was some dispute about the year of his birth. Author Wesley Hyatt suggests that since Skelton began working at such an early age, he may have had to say he was older than he actually was in order to work.
Because of the loss of his father, young Richard went to work at the age of seven, selling newspapers to help his family. He quickly learned the newsboy's patter and would keep it up until a prospective buyer bought a copy of the paper just to quiet young Skelton. In
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