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
Also known As
Ред Скелтон
Richard Red Skelton
Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton
Richard Bernard Skelton
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
as Self
1985
as Self (archive footage)
1965
1976
as Father Time / Baby Bear (voice)
1979
as (archive footage)
1977
1950
as Harry Ruby
1952
as Al Marsh
1951
as Cornie Quinell
1945
as J. Newton Numbskull (segment "When Television Comes")
1949
as Jack Spratt
1948
as Red Jones
1943
as Louis Blore / King Louis XV
1943
as Red Skelton
1942
as Merton K. Kibble
1941
as Joe 'Red' Willet
1944
as Stephen "Steve" Sherman Elliott
1968
as Self (uncredited)
1938
as Itchy
1966
as Freddie the Freeloader
1954
as Oswald from North Dakota (uncredited)
1951
as Joe Belden
1981
as Freddie the Freeloader
1941
as Vernon Briggs
1941
as Wally Benton
1943
as Wally 'The Fox' Benton
1942
as Wally Benton
1940
as Lieut. 'Mugger' Martin
1953
as Dodo Delwyn
1942
as Herbert P. 'Hap' Hixby
1950
as Augustus 'Red' Pirdy
1970
as Self (uncredited)
1942
as Red
1947
as Merton Gill aka Clifford Armytage
1941
as Vernon Briggs
1943
as Joseph 'Joe' Rivington Renolds
1954
as Ambrose C. Park
1953
as Ben Dobson
1970
as Self
1948
as Aubrey Filmore
1950
as Rusty Cammeron
1946
as J. Aubrey Piper
1950
as Red Skelton - Fuller Brush Man (uncredited)
1939
as Red / Doorman / Coatroom Attendant / Waiter / Emcee
1957
as Rusty Morgan
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1955
2001
as Himself (Host)/Various Characters
1999
as Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage)
1956
as Drunk in Barbary Coast Saloon
1964
as Aubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage)
1976
as Host
1939
as Red
1976
as (archive footage)
1944
as (archive footage)
1985
as From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
1984
as Himself
1995
as Self
1970
as Self
1987
as Self
2005
as Red Skelton
1956
as Self - Announcing Next Week's Show
Production
1966
as Writer
1976
as Writer
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