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Acteur dans 42 films

Né(e) le 18 juillet 1913

Lieu de naissance
Vincennes, Indiana, USA

Mort le 17 septembre 1997 (à 84 ans)

Red Skelton

Acteur dans

1985

  • That's Dancing!

1981

  • Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner

1976

  • Rudolph's Shiny New Year

1974

  • That's Entertainment!
  • That's Entertainment!

1965

  • Ces merveilleux fous volants dans leurs drôles de machines

1964

  • The Big Parade of Comedy

1960

  • L'Inconnu de Las Vegas

1957

  • Public Pigeon No. 1

1956

  • Le Tour du monde en 80 jours

1954

  • Susan Slept Here
  • The Great Diamond Robbery

1953

  • Half a Hero
  • The Clown

1952

  • Lovely to Look At

1951

  • Texas Carnival
  • Excuse My Dust

1950

  • Watch the Birdie
  • Trois petits mots
  • The Yellow Cab Man

1949

  • Neptune's Daughter

1948

  • A Southern Yankee
  • The Fuller Brush Man

1947

  • Merton of the Movies

1945

  • Ziegfeld Follies

1944

  • Le Bal des Sirènes

1943

  • Whistling in Brooklyn
  • I Dood It
  • Du Barry Was a Lady
  • Parade aux Étoiles

1942

  • Whistling in Dixie
  • Panama Hattie
  • Maisie Gets Her Man
  • Ship Ahoy

1941

  • Lady Be Good
  • Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
  • Whistling in the Dark
  • The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

1940

  • L'appel des Ailes

1939

  • Seeing Red

1938

  • Vacances payées

0000

  • The Show Off
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 1971, his show consistently stayed in the top twenty, both on NBC and CBS. His numerous characters, including Clem Kaddiddlehopper, George Appleby, and the seagulls Gertrude and Heathcliffe delighted audiences for decades. First and foremost, he considered himself a clown, although not the greatest, and his paintings of clowns brought in a fortune after he left television. His home life was not completely happy--two divorces and a son Richard who died of leukemia at age 9--and he did not hang around with other comedians. He continued performing live until illness, and he was a longtime supporter of children's charities. Red Skelton died at age 84 of pneumonia in Rancho Mirage, California, on September 17, 1997. Red is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction.





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