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

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

The Poseidon Adventure

as James Martin

1977

1962

Hatari!

as Pockets

1965

Harlow

as Arthur Landau

1999

The Story of Us

as Arnie Jordan

1962

Gay Purr-ee

as Robespierre (voice)

1962

The Longest Day

as Pvt. John Steele

1957

Sayonara

as Joe Kelly

1962

Five Weeks in a Balloon

as Donald O'Shay

1988

18 Again!

as Charlie

1966

Stagecoach

as Peacock

1980

When Time Ran Out...

as Francis Fendly

1977

Viva Knievel!

as Ben Andrews

1958

1978

Movie Movie

as Peanuts / Jinks Murphy

1964

Your Cheatin' Heart

as Shorty Younger

1979

C.H.O.M.P.S.

as Bracken

1990

The Ambulance

as Elias Zacharai

1963

A Ticklish Affair

as Flight Officer Simon 'Uncle Cy' Shelley

1959

The Big Circus

as Randy Sherman

1944

Winged Victory

as Whitey / Andrews Sister

1958

Imitation General

as Cpl. Chan Derby

1978

The Users

as Warren Ambrose

1981

Leave 'Em Laughing

as Roland Green

1971

1976

Gable and Lombard

as Ivan Cooper

1982

Off Your Rocker

as Seymour Saltz

1977

Telethon

as Marty Rand

1985

Reunion at Fairborough

as Jiggs Quealy

1980

Power

as Solly Weiss

1961

One, Two, Three

as MP Sergeant (uncredited)

1970

Breakout

as Pipes

1965

Up from the Beach

as PFC Harry Devine

1951

1994

It Could Happen to You

as Walter Zakuto

1976

Joys

as Self

1981

Side Show

as Harry Hubbell

1970

George M!

as Sam Harris

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