Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television, and film actor, and also a notable violinist. Widely recognized...

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Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan; May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956) was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forwa...

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George Lovejoy "Doc" Rockwell (1889-1978) was an American vaudeville performer and radio personality. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Rockwell was a fast-talking "nut comic" who developed an ac...

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Jean Gabin , nom d'artiste de Jean Alexis Gabin Moncorgé1, est un acteur français, chanteur de revue et d'opérette, né le 17 mai 1904 à Paris, qui a grandi à Mériel (Val-d'Oise), mort le 15 novembre 19...

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Ivo Livi dit Yves Montand , est un chanteur et acteur français d'origine italienne. Né le 13 octobre 1921 à Monsummano Terme, en Toscane (Italie), mort le 9 novembre 1991 à Senlis (Oise), en France.

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Simone Signoret (French pronunciation: [simɔn siɲɔˈʁɛ]; 25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French ...

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Serge Gainsbourg (Lucien Ginsburg) (né le 2 avril 1928 à Paris - mort le 2 mars 1991 à Paris) est un artiste peintre, auteur-compositeur-interprète, pianiste, scénariste, metteur en scène, écrivain, ac...

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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) Wiki (English) - Jean Cocteau French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along...

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Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, singer, entertainer and a noted Sprechgesang performer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including ...

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Sarah Bernhardt (c. October 22, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as the most famous actress the world has ever known. Bernhardt made her fame...

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Scott Thompson (born February 25, 1965), better known by his stage name Carrot Top , is an American comedian, known for his bright red hair, prop comedy, and self-deprecating humor. Thompson was born...

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He is an Irish-American actor, comedian, writer, and director. He is known for his often biting comedic style and his chain smoking. Leary is the star and co-creator of the television show Rescue Me, w...

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Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. He is currently the host of Conan , a late-night talk show that airs on the Ame...

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Jonathan Harshman Winters III (born November 11, 1925) is an American comedian, actor, and artist. Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore (née Rodgers), a radio personality, an...

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Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg (born August 7, 1926) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director, whose caree...

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Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his hum...

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Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams ...

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Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as Minnie Pearl, was an American country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (fro...

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Larry Martin Hagman (born September 21, 1931) is an American film and television actor, producer and director most widely known for playing J.R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dal...

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Winstead Sheffield Weaver (May 11, 1911 – January 17, 1983), who used the professional name Doodles Weaver, was an American actor and comedian on radio, recordings, and television. He was the brother...

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David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor and director of television and film who gained worldwide recognition for playing Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends . Schwimmer wa...

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British actor.

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Hearne was an English actor, comedian, producer and writer. He was famous for his stage and television character "Mr Pastry"

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Marty Feldman, the writer and comedian, died in Mexico City on December 2 at the age of 49. He was on location with a film company. Feldman, who was born in Canning Town, East London, of a poor Jewis...

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Mr. Arthur Towle, known professionally as Arthur Lucan, whose death at the age of 67 was briefly reported in our later editions yesterday, for long delighted large audiences, particularly in Yorkshire ...

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Mr. Norman Evans, the Lancashire comedian, died yesterday in hospital at Blackpool. He was 61. He began working in a mill when he was 14 and later became a commercial traveller for a textile firm. La...

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Jimmy Nervo, remembered as a member of the Crazy Gang, died yesterday in a London hospital. He was 78 and had been ill for some time. Nervo - real name James Holloway - was associated with the Gang f...

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Teddy Knox, the comedian, has died in a Devon hospital at the age of 78. He was the second half of Nervo and Knox who appeared for over 30 years with the Crazy Gang at the Victoria Palace Theatre, Lo...

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BUD FLANAGAN, comedian and member of the Crazy Gang died in Kingston, Surrey Hospital yesterday aged 72. He was born Robert Winthrop at Spitalfields, London, and adopted as his stage name that of an ...

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Lupino Lane was an English actor and theatre manager, and a member of the famous Lupino family. Lane started out as a child performer, known as 'Little Nipper', and went on to appear in a wide range of...

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Mr. Barry Lupino, who died on Tuesday in a Brighton hospital at the age of 78, was one of the best known of pantomime dames. He was a brother of Stanley Lupino and a cousin of Lupino Lane and Wallace L...

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Lupino began his career as an acrobat and made his stage debut in 1913 and first became known as a music hall performer and played in pantomimes at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. In 1920 and 1921 he app...

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Dickie Henderson, the comedian, died yesterday. He was 62 and had been suffering from cancer. Henderson was born into a theatrical family. His father, Dick Henderson, was a rotund Yorkshire comedian ...

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'Monsewer' Eddie Gray was a stage comedian who performed in Music Halls. He was born on 10 June 1898 in Pimlico, London as Edward Earl Gray. He became a professional juggler, but by the time he was t...

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ALFIE BASS: Comedy and pathos on stage and television Alfie Bass, actor, who died yesterday at the age of 66, used his irrepressible Cockney Jewish talent to establish a range of stage and televisi...

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Michael Bentine, CBE, was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. He was Peruvian Briton as a result of his father's nationality. In 1971, Bentine received the Order of Merit ...

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British comedienne, actress and music hall star.

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Lucille Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film executive, and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy , a four ...

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Thomas Dwaine "Tom" Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. He has appeared in many films, perhaps most notably True Lies (1994). He was the host of The Best Damn Sports Show Per...

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

Eric Marlon Bishop, professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best ...

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Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California, United States

Steven John "Steve" Carell ( /kəˈrɛl/) is an American comedian, actor, voice artist, producer, writer, and director. Although Carell is notable for his role on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he found...

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David A. Cross (born April 4, 1964) is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian perhaps known primarily for his work on the sketch comedy series Mr. Show as well as his role as Tobias Fünke in t...

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Moritz "Morey" Amsterdam (December 14, 1908 – October 28, 1996) was an American television actor and comedian, best known for the role of Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the early 1960s. M...

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Multi-talented British comedian and actor Dudley Moore was best known for his comic performance as a drunk millionaire in the 1981 film "Arthur" and his role as a composer grappling with a midlife cris...

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Graham David Fellows From Wikipedia: (born 22 May 1959, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England)[1] is an English comedy actor and musician, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and ...

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Irene Handl Irene was born in Maida Vale, London, the daughter of an Austrian banker father and French mother. She took to acting at the relatively advanced age of 36, and studied at the acting schoo...

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British character actor and comedian.

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Mr. Arthur Haynes, who died on Saturday at the age of 52, was a comedian whose success was due rather to the native drollery of his personality than to the undoubted skill with which he worked. The son...

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Mr Sandy Powell, MBE, an old-time music hall comedian, who made a name for himself from the 1920s onwards as a radio star, died on June 26. He was 82. Born on January 20, 1900, in Rotherham, Yorkshir...

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MISS HATTIE JACQUES Comic personality of stage, films and television Miss Hattie Jacques, the well-known comic actress, died yesterday at the age of 56. No one could have spoken more truthfully tha...

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Eric Sykes From Wikipedia CBE (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wro...

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Leeds-born comedian, partner of Eric Morecambe.

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Eric Morecambe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Born John Eric Bartholomew 14 May 1926(1926-05-14) Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK Died 28 May 1984(1984-05-28) (aged 58) Cheltenham, Glouces...

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Thomas Henry Sargent (21 November 1894 – 7 May 1963), better known by the stage name Max Miller – the Cheeky Chappie - was a British front-cloth comedian who was top of the bill in variety in the 1930s...

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Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976)[1] is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in comedy and romantic films such as National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Waiting..., Just Friends, Defin...

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Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted in the US as the 5th greatest stand-u...

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Before he became famous for "stupid pet tricks" and top-ten lists on late-night network television, David Letterman was honing his peculiar sense of humor at radio and TV stations in Indianapolis. Le...

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Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques ce...

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John Adam Belushi ( /bəˈluːʃi/; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and musician, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Ni...

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Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American comedian and actor. Farley was a member of Chicago's The Second City Theatre and cast member of the NBC sketch ...

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Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 a...

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Johnathan Southworth "John" Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor and comedian perhaps best known for playing Jack Tripper and Paul Hennessy in the ABC sitcoms Three'...

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William Sanford "Bill" Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy , is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, mechanical engineer and scientist. ...

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Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962) is an American stand-up comedienne, actress, singer, author and media personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity bl...

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Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, voice actor , animator, screenwriter, comedian , producer, director and singer. He is best known as the creator of the animated si...

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Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she made her telev...

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A superstar of radio, film and television during the 1940s and 1950s, Bob Hope was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel. ...

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American actor best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the long-running ABC sitcom Happy Days.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor, also known as Sári Prinz von Anhalt, is a Hungarian-American actress, socialite and former beauty queen. Zsa Zsa Gabor was born as Sári Gábor (reportedly named after a famed Hungarian ...

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Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American film and television actress, producer, and activist. She is best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit TV series, The Nanny.

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Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino ; January 24, 1917) is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of...

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Nicholas J. Kroll (born June 5, 1978) is an American actor and comedian best known for appearing in television shows such as Best Week Ever, Cavemen and Sit Down, Shut Up. He co-stars in the shows The ...

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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (1 December 1940 – 10 December 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of ra...

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New York, NY, USA

Henry Jon Benjamin (born May 23, 1966), known professionally as H. Jon Benjamin and Jon Benjamin , is an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his voice-over roles as Jason/Coach McGuirk o...

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ENJOY some of his SINGING ! Birth: Jun. 7, 1917 Steubenville Jefferson County Ohio, USA Death: Dec. 25, 1995 Legendary Singer, Actor, and Comedian. Born Dino Paul Crocetti in Stuebenville, Ohio...

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Amy Meredith Poehler /ˈpoʊlər/ (born September 16, 1971) is an American comedian, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001...

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Official Peter Sellers Site Peter Sellers - Comic Genius Peter Seller Appreciation Society Peter Sellers - Wikipedia Bio (PETER SELLERS) Richard Henry Sellers, OBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July...

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Celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. *If anyone has any information on Danny Kaye's brothers or parents please contact me! Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsk) left school...

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