Red Skelton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1913-07-18 (84 years old)

Deathday

1997-09-17

Place of Birth

Vincennes, Indiana, USA

Red Skelton

Biography

The son of a former circus clown turned grocer and a cleaning woman, Red Skelton was introduced to show business at the age of 7 by Ed Wynn, at a vaudeville show in Vincennes. At age 10, he left home to travel with a medicine show through the Midwest, and joined the vaudeville circuit at age 15. At age 17, he married Edna Marie Stilwell, an usher who became his vaudeville partner and later his chief writer and manager. He debuted on Broadway and radio in 1937 and on film in 1938. His ex-wife/manager negotiated a seven-year Hollywood contract for him in 1951, the same year The Red Skelton Hour (1951) premiered on NBC. For two decades, until 19...

Acting

1960

1985

1976

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

as Father Time / Baby Bear (voice)

1979

The Hollywood Clowns

as (archive footage)

1950

Three Little Words

as Harry Ruby

1952

1951

Texas Carnival

as Cornie Quinell

1945

Ziegfeld Follies

as J. Newton Numbskull (segment "When Television Comes")

1949

Neptune's Daughter

as Jack Spratt

1948

1943

Du Barry Was a Lady

as Louis Blore / King Louis XV

1943

Thousands Cheer

as Red Skelton

1942

Ship Ahoy

as Merton K. Kibble

1941

Lady Be Good

as Joe 'Red' Willet

1944

Bathing Beauty

as Stephen "Steve" Sherman Elliott

1968

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

as Self (uncredited)

1966

Clown Alley

as Freddie the Freeloader

1954

Susan Slept Here

as Oswald from North Dakota (uncredited)

1951

Excuse My Dust

as Joe Belden

1981

1941

1941

Whistling in the Dark

as Wally Benton

1943

Whistling in Brooklyn

as Wally 'The Fox' Benton

1942

Whistling in Dixie

as Wally Benton

1940

Flight Command

as Lieut. 'Mugger' Martin

1953

The Clown

as Dodo Delwyn

1942

Maisie Gets Her Man

as Herbert P. 'Hap' Hixby

1950

The Yellow Cab Man

as Augustus 'Red' Pirdy

1942

1947

Merton of the Movies

as Merton Gill aka Clifford Armytage

1941

1943

I Dood It

as Joseph 'Joe' Rivington Renolds

1954

The Great Diamond Robbery

as Ambrose C. Park

1953

Half a Hero

as Ben Dobson

1948

A Southern Yankee

as Aubrey Filmore

1950

Watch the Birdie

as Rusty Cammeron

1946

The Show-Off

as J. Aubrey Piper

1950

The Fuller Brush Girl

as Red Skelton - Fuller Brush Man (uncredited)

1939

Seeing Red

as Red / Doorman / Coatroom Attendant / Waiter / Emcee

1957

Public Pigeon No. 1

as Rusty Morgan

1974

That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001

Red Skelton: Bloopers, Blunders, and Ad Libs

as Himself (Host)/Various Characters

1999

Television: The First Fifty Years

as Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage)

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days

as Drunk in Barbary Coast Saloon

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Aubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage)

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1944

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1985

That's Dancing!

as From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)

1956

The Country Husband

as Self - Announcing Next Week's Show

Production

1966

Clown Alley

as Writer

1976

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