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Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian.He began his career in vaudeville in 1903 and was known for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor, which continued into the 1960s. [2]
Wynn was born on July 27, 1916, in New York City, the son of vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn and his wife, the former Hilda Keenan. He took his stage name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway actors to star in Hollywood. His father was Jewish and his mother was of Irish Catholic background.
Keenan and Ed Wynn are seen in this photo from the program. The Man in the Funny Suit is a television drama, originally broadcast on 15 April 1960 on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, detailing the agony endured by actor Keenan Wynn while helping his co-star, father and comedian Ed Wynn, play a serious role in the original television production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight, which ...
George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου) on 25 June 1963, in East Finchley. He was the only son and the youngest child of three. [10] [11] His father, Kyriacos "Jack" Panayiotou, [12] was a Greek Cypriot restaurateur who emigrated from Patriki, Cyprus, to England in the ...
Wynn was born on February 28, 1945, in Hollywood, California. He is the son of Keenan Wynn and the grandson of Ed Wynn and Hilda Keenan; his great-grandfather was actor Frank Keenan. [1] Wynn graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a bachelor's degree in fine arts. [2]
Bess Meredyth (1890–1969), screenwriter, wife of directors Wilfred Lucas and Michael Curtiz, mother of writer John Meredyth Lucas [107] Ron W. Miller (1933–2019), businessman, football player, son-in-law of Walt Disney; Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), physicist and Nobel Prize winner [24] Vincente Minnelli (1903–1986), director [116]
High above the desert in a Michael Smith–designed oasis, Elaine Wynn charts a new future for Las Vegas within sight of the neon landmark that bears her name. Inside Elaine Wynn’s Las Vegas ...
Richard Lewis Deacon (May 14, 1922 [2] [3] – August 8, 1984) was an American television and motion picture actor, [4] best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, [5] Leave It to Beaver, [6] and The Jack Benny Program, [7] along with minor roles in films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) [8] and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).