Red Buttons
Biography
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 corne...
Also Known As
Cpl. Red Buttons, Aaron Chwatt
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Red Buttons's Movies
The Longest Day
25 Sept 1962
The Poseidon Adventure
01 Dec 1972
It Could Happen to You
16 Jul 1994
Pete's Dragon
03 Nov 1977
One, Two, Three
15 Dec 1961
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
10 Dec 1969
The Story of Us
14 Oct 1999
Hatari!
19 Jun 1962
Sayonara
25 Dec 1957
The Ambulance
22 Mar 1990
18 Again!
08 Apr 1988
When Time Ran Out...
28 Mar 1980
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
01 Jul 1979
Gay Purr-ee
24 Oct 1962
Stagecoach
21 Apr 1966
Five Weeks in a Balloon
22 Aug 1962
The Muppets Go Hollywood
16 May 1979
Movie Movie
01 Nov 1978
Harlow
23 Jun 1965
C.H.O.M.P.S.
21 Dec 1979
Red Buttons's TV Shows
Little House on the Prairie
11 Sept 1974
ER
19 Sept 1994
Wonder Woman
07 Nov 1975
The Cosby Show
20 Sept 1984
Roseanne
18 Oct 1988
The Love Boat
24 Sept 1977
The Love Boat
24 Sept 1977
Early Edition
28 Sept 1996
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
01 Oct 1962
The Oscars
19 Mar 1953
227
14 Sept 1985
Knots Landing
27 Dec 1979
Alice in Wonderland
09 Dec 1985
Cosby
16 Sept 1996
What's My Line?
02 Feb 1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
20 Jun 1948
Vega$
20 Sept 1978
Great Performances
28 Jan 1971
The Dean Martin Show
16 Sept 1965
Love, American Style
29 Sept 1969