Red Buttons
Known for: Acting
Born: February 5, 1919
Died: July 13, 2006
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 corne…
Known for
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
1979
Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962
Hansel and Gretel
1958
A Marriage of Strangers
1959
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
1971
Harlow
1965
Stagecoach
1966
The Big Circus
1959
Imitation General
1958
Off Your Rocker
1982
Breakout
1970
George M!
1970
Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style
1976
Flannery and Quilt
1976
Jackie Gleason: The Great One
1988
Gay Purr-ee
1962
Movie Movie
1978
Your Cheatin' Heart
1964
A Ticklish Affair
1963
The Users
1978
Telethon
1977
Reunion at Fairborough
1985
Up from the Beach
1965
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
George Burns: His Wit and Wisdom
1989
Hatari!
1962
Viva Knievel!
1977
C.H.O.M.P.S.
1979
Goodnight, We Love You
2004
Gable and Lombard
1976
George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business
1983
Footlight Varieties
1951
The New Original Wonder Woman
1975
Pete's Dragon
1977
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969
18 Again!
1988
The Poseidon Adventure
1972
Winged Victory
1944
Sayonara
1957
When Time Ran Out...
1980
Leave 'Em Laughing
1981
Ghosts of Fear Street
1998
The Ambulance
1990
Side Show
1981
The Story of Us
1999
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
Playboy's Playmate Party
1977
It Could Happen to You
1994
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
1995
Joys
1976
One, Two, Three
1961
The Longest Day
1962
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Presidio Med
2002
The Jackie Gleason Show
1966
Little House on the Prairie
1974
The Love Boat
1977
Early Edition
1996
The Cosby Show
1984
227
1985
Roseanne
1988
Knots Landing
1979
Studio One
1948
General Electric Theater
1953
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Cosby
1996
Password
1961
ER
1994
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Eleventh Hour
1962
Saints and Sinners
1962
Vega$
1978
Family Law
1999
Philly
2001
The United States Steel Hour
1953
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Pink Lady
1980
The Dean Martin Show
1965
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Ben Casey
1961
The Danny Thomas Hour
1967
Frontier Circus
1961
Suspense
1949
The Red Buttons Show
1952
The Double Life of Henry Phyfe
1966
Aloha Paradise
1981
Street Time
2002
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Oscars
1953
Alice in Wonderland
1985
The Dream Merchants
1980
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Hollywood Palace
1964
Love, American Style
1969
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
What's My Line?
1950
Great Performances
1971
Kraft Music Hall
1958
Wonder Woman
1975
It's Garry Shandling's Show
1986
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Power
1980
Startime
1959
Fantasy Island
1978