Jackie Gleason

Actor

Información

  • Birth Name: Herbert Walton Gleason Jr.
  • Date of Birth: 26 February 1916
  • Place Of Birth:  Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
  • Height: 5' 9½" (1.77 m)

Biografía

Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools. He was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver and a disc jockey., and later a comedian in night clubs. By the mid-1950s he had turned to writing original music and recording a series of popular and best-selling albums with his orchestra for Capitol Records. Joining ASCAP in 1953, his instrumental compositions include “Melancholy Serenade”, “Glamour”, “Lover’s Rhapsody”, “On the Beach” and “To a Sleeping Beauty”, among numerous others.

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