Red Buttons

About

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 Robert Alda). Buttons worked the burlesque circuit as a comic and even landed a role in a Broadway play, "Vicki", in 1942. He soon joined the U.S. Marine Corps, and in 1943 was picked for a role in Moss Hart's service play "Winged Victory" on...

Known for

The Love BoatSeries • 1977ERSeries • 1994Knots LandingSeries • 1979Love, American StyleSeries • 1969Little House on the PrairieSeries • 1974The Cosby ShowSeries • 1984Studio OneSeries • 1948Fantasy IslandSeries • 1978Ben CaseySeries • 1961Early EditionSeries • 1996SuspenseSeries • 1949Family LawSeries • 1999Vega$Series • 1978Wonder WomanSeries • 1975227Series • 1985The Dean Martin ShowSeries • 1965The United States Steel HourSeries • 1953It's Garry Shandling's ShowSeries • 1986StartimeSeries • 1959Street TimeSeries • 2002RoseanneSeries • 1988CosbySeries • 1996PasswordSeries • 1961The Longest DayMovie • 1962