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Gleason is a 2002 television film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Brad Garrett as Jackie Gleason. [1] [2] The film premiered on CBS on October 13, 2002. Plot
Gleason is an American documentary film which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.It covers five years in the life of the former New Orleans Saints football defensive back Steve Gleason, who has Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sometimes known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a rare incurable neurodegenerative condition associated with the former New York Yankees baseball star Lou Gehrig ...
Gleason was born Herbert Walton Gleason Jr. on February 26, 1916, at 364 Chauncey Street in the Stuyvesant Heights (now Bedford–Stuyvesant) section of Brooklyn. [5] He was later baptized as John Herbert Gleason [6] and grew up at 328 Chauncey Street, Apartment 1A (an address he later used for Ralph and Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners). [7]
Nothing in Common is a 1986 American comedy-drama film directed by Garry Marshall. It stars Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason in his final film role. Gleason died less than a year after the film's release. The film was not considered a big financial success on initial release, though it became more popular as Hanks' fame grew.
Gleason grading system, used in evaluating the prognosis of men with prostate cancer; Lev Gleason Publications, New York-based publisher of comic books in the 1940s and early 1950s; Jackie Gleason Bus Depot, Brooklyn, New York; Gleason Building (disambiguation) Gleason House (disambiguation) Gleeson (disambiguation) Gleison (disambiguation)
Skidoo is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, [1] starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark (who died on December 5, two weeks before the film's release), Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin, John Phillip Law, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, and Groucho Marx playing a top mobster named "God".
The American release was limited to select theaters throughout the country, with the film opening in more theaters during the next four weeks of its initial release. After its run, the film grossed $52,293,982 domestically. [16] The film was released on DVD January 3, 2000, [17] and on Blu-ray June 5, 2012. [18]
James Austin Gleason (May 23, 1882 – April 12, 1959) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter born in New York City. [1] Gleason often portrayed "tough-talking, world-weary guys with a secret heart-of-gold."