
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