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 childrens 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.
Self
Ταινία 1960
Self (archive footage)
Ταινία 1985
Father Time / Baby Bear (voice)
Ταινία 1976
(archive footage)
Ταινία 1979
Self
Ταινία 1977
Harry Ruby
Ταινία 1950
Al Marsh
Ταινία 1952
J. Newton Numbskull (segment "When Television Comes")
Ταινία 1945
Red Jones
Ταινία 1948
Red Skelton
Ταινία 1943
Joe 'Red' Willet
Ταινία 1941
Stephen "Steve" Sherman Elliott
Ταινία 1944
Self (uncredited)
Ταινία 1968
Itchy
Ταινία 1938
Freddie the Freeloader
Ταινία 1966
Oswald from North Dakota (uncredited)
Ταινία 1954
Joe Belden
Ταινία 1951
Freddie the Freeloader
Ταινία 1981
Vernon Briggs
Ταινία 1941
Wally Benton
Ταινία 1941
Wally 'The Fox' Benton
Ταινία 1943
Wally Benton
Ταινία 1942
Dodo Delwyn
Ταινία 1953
Herbert P. 'Hap' Hixby
Ταινία 1942
Augustus 'Red' Pirdy
Ταινία 1950
Self (uncredited)
Ταινία 1970
Red
Ταινία 1942
Merton Gill aka Clifford Armytage
Ταινία 1947
Vernon Briggs
Ταινία 1941
Joseph 'Joe' Rivington Renolds
Ταινία 1943
Ambrose C. Park
Ταινία 1954
Ben Dobson
Ταινία 1953
Self
Ταινία 1970
Aubrey Filmore
Ταινία 1948
Rusty Cammeron
Ταινία 1950
J. Aubrey Piper
Ταινία 1946
Red Skelton - Fuller Brush Man (uncredited)
Ταινία 1950
Red / Doorman / Coatroom Attendant / Waiter / Emcee
Ταινία 1939
Rusty Morgan
Ταινία 1957
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Ταινία 1974
Main
Ταινία 1955
Himself (Host)/Various Characters
Ταινία 2001
Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage)
Ταινία 1999
Aubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage)
Ταινία 1964
Host
Ταινία 1976
Red
Ταινία 1939
(archive footage)
Ταινία 1944
From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
Ταινία 1985
Himself
Ταινία 1984
Self
Ταινία 1995
Self
Ταινία 1970
Clem Kadiddlehopper
Tv 1948
Self
Tv 1948
Self
Tv 1958
Self
Tv 1952
Rusty Morgan
Tv 1954
Self
Tv 1956
Self - Cameo / Clem Kadiddlehopper
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1953
Red Skeleton
Tv 1957
Host
Tv 1951
Self
Tv 1950
Self
Tv 1950
Self - Recipient
Tv 1956
Self - Mystery Guest
Tv 1950
Self
Tv 1962