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Buddy Lester

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William "Buddy" Lester (January 16, 1915 – October 4, 2002) was an American comedian and actor who played dozens of character roles in films and television. [1]

29 relations: Al Capone, Barney Miller, Broadway Open House, Chicago, Corporation, Cracking Up (film), Danny Thomas, Dragnet (franchise), Frank Sinatra, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Hardly Working, Heidelberg, Jerry Lester, Jerry Lewis, Miami, Nightclub act, Ocean's 11, Sergeants 3, The Big Mouth, The Danny Thomas Show, The Gene Krupa Story, The Ladies Man, The New Phil Silvers Show, The Nutty Professor, The Party (1968 film), The Patsy (1964 film), The Tonight Show, Three on a Couch, Van Nuys.

Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.

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Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American sitcom set in a New York City Police Department police station on East 6th St in Greenwich Village.

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Broadway Open House

Broadway Open House is network television's first late-night comedy-variety series.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Corporation

A corporation is a company or group of people or an organisation authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

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Cracking Up (film)

Cracking Up is a 1983 comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

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Danny Thomas

Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz; January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian, singer, actor, and producer whose career spanned five decades.

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Dragnet (franchise)

Dragnet was an American radio, television, and motion-picture series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.The show (and CBS) renders the title as Gomer Pyle - USMC.

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Hardly Working

Hardly Working is a comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

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Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a college town in Baden-Württemberg situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.

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Jerry Lester

Jerry Lester (February 16, 1910 – March 23, 1995) was an American comedian, singer and performer on radio, television and the stage, who hosted the first network late night television program as host of Broadway Open House on NBC, a vaudeville-esque combination of comedy and music, whose success demonstrated the potential for late-night television and led to the creation of the Tonight Show.

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Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch, March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian, director, screenwriter, producer, headliner and author.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Nightclub act

A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may also be referred to as a nightclub act.

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Ocean's 11

Ocean's 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five of the Rat Pack: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Joey Bishop.

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Sergeants 3

Sergeants 3 is a 1962 film directed by John Sturges and featuring Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop.

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The Big Mouth

The Big Mouth is a 1967 comedy film produced, directed, co-written, and starring Jerry Lewis released on July 12, 1967 by Columbia Pictures.

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The Danny Thomas Show

The Danny Thomas Show (called Make Room for Daddy for its first three seasons) is an American sitcom that ran from 1953 to 1957 on ABC and from 1957 to 1964 on CBS.

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The Gene Krupa Story

The Gene Krupa Story (also known as Drum Crazy) is a 1959 biopic of American drummer and bandleader Gene Krupa.

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The Ladies Man

The Ladies Man is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

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The New Phil Silvers Show

The New Phil Silvers Show is an American situation comedy starring comedian Phil Silvers which aired thirty episodes on CBS from September 28, 1963, to April 25, 1964, under the sponsorship of General Foods.

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The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor is a 1963 American comic science fiction film directed, co-written (with Bill Richmond) and starring Jerry Lewis.

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The Party (1968 film)

The Party is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet.

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The Patsy (1964 film)

The Patsy is a 1964 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

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The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show currently broadcast from the NBC studios in Rockefeller Center in New York City (and previously from various studios in the Los Angeles region) and airing on NBC since 1954.

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Three on a Couch

Three on a Couch is a 1966 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

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Van Nuys

Van Nuys is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles in California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Lester

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