Red Buttons
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-02-05 (87 years old)
Deathday
2006-07-13
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Cpl. Red Buttons
Aaron Chwatt
Red Buttons
Biography
Although Red Buttons is best known as a stand-up comic, he is also a successful songwriter, an Academy Award-winning actor (and has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards) and an accomplished singer. Born Aaron Chwatt on February 5, 1919 (Aquarius) in New York City's Lower East Side, stood at a height of 5' 6" (1.68 m). Buttons (who got his name from a uniform he wore while working as a singing bellhop), also known as Cpl. Red Buttons, started his show-business career singing on street corners as a child. At 16 he got a job as part of a comedy act playing the famed Catskills resort area in upstate New York (his partner was future actor Ro...
Acting
1972
as James Martin
1988
1977
as Hoagy
1962
as Pockets
1965
as Arthur Landau
1999
as Arnie Jordan
1962
as Robespierre (voice)
1962
as Pvt. John Steele
1969
as Sailor
1979
as Milton (voice)
1957
as Joe Kelly
1962
as Donald O'Shay
1988
as Charlie
1966
as Peacock
1980
as Francis Fendly
1977
as Ben Andrews
1958
as Hansel
1978
as Peanuts / Jinks Murphy
1964
as Shorty Younger
1979
as Bracken
1990
as Elias Zacharai
1963
as Flight Officer Simon 'Uncle Cy' Shelley
1995
2004
as Self
1959
as Randy Sherman
1944
as Whitey / Andrews Sister
1958
as Cpl. Chan Derby
1978
as Warren Ambrose
1981
as Roland Green
1959
as Jerry
1971
as Mickey Isadore
1976
as Ivan Cooper
1982
as Seymour Saltz
1977
as Marty Rand
1985
as Jiggs Quealy
1985
as Self
1980
as Solly Weiss
1961
as MP Sergeant (uncredited)
1970
as Pipes
1965
as PFC Harry Devine
1951
as Himself
1994
as Walter Zakuto
1976
as Self
1981
as Harry Hubbell
1970
as Sam Harris
1979
as Self
1997
1966
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