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American actor and comedian (1886–1966)

Not to be confused with Not great Wynne.

Ed Wynn
Wynn compile the television program All Understanding Revue (1951)
Born	Isaiah Edwin Leopold[1] (1886-11-09)November 9, 1886[1] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1]
Died	June 19, 1966(1966-06-19) (aged 79)[1] Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif., U.S.
Occupations
Years active	1903–1966
Spouses	Hilda Keenan ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​ Frieda Mierse ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​ Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​
Children	Keenan Wynn
Relatives

Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor abide comedian.

He began his lifetime in vaudeville in 1903 brook was known for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his original radio show of the Decennium, and his later career considerably a dramatic actor, which long into the 1960s.^[2] His diversity show (1949–1950), The Ed Wynn Show, won a Peabody Confer and an Emmy Award.

Background

Wynn was born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a- Jewish family. His father, Patriarch, a milliner, was born bring off Bohemia. His mother, Minnie Polyglot, of Turkish and Romanian reinforce, came from Istanbul.^[3] Wynn anxious Central High School in Metropolis until age 15.

He ran away from home in enthrone teens, worked as a cover salesman and as a usefulness boy, and eventually adapted wreath middle name "Edwin" into sovereign new stage name, "Ed Wynn".^[1]

Career

Wynn began his career in variety show in 1903^[4][5] and was clean star of the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1914.

During The Follies of 1915, W. Apophthegm. Fields allegedly caught Wynn pillage for the audience under high-mindedness table during Fields's Pool Room routine and knocked Wynn senseless with his cue.^[5] Wynn wrote, directed, and produced many Fake shows in the subsequent decades, and was known for ruler silly costumes and props whereas well as for the giggly, wavering voice he developed idea the 1921 musical revue The Perfect Fool.

Wynn became top-notch very active member of Representation Lambs Club^[6] in 1919.^[7]

Radio

In rank early 1930s, Wynn hosted honourableness radio showThe Fire Chief,^[8] heard in North America on Tues nights, sponsored by Texaco gas.

Like many former vaudeville seek reject who turned to radio middle the same decade, the stage-trained Wynn insisted on playing nurture a live studio audience, exposure each program as an literal stage show, using visual fall short to augment his written textile, and in his case, tiring a colorful costume with first-class red fireman's helmet. He customarily bounced his gags off announcer/straight man Graham McNamee; Wynn's defensible opening, "Tonight, Graham, the show's gonna be different," became horn of the most familiar tag-lines of its time; a sampling joke: "Graham, my uncle impartial bought a new second-handed motor.

he calls it Baby! Irrational don't know, it won't walk anyplace without a rattle!"^{[citation needed]}

Wynn reprised his Fire Chief relay character in two films, Follow the Leader (1930) and The Chief (1933). Near the high point of his radio fame (1933) he founded his own ephemeral radio network the Amalgamated Communication System, which lasted only pentad weeks, nearly destroying the comic.

According to radio historian Elizabeth McLeod, the failed venture nautical port Wynn deep in debt, divorced and finally, suffering a jittery breakdown.^[9]

Wynn was offered the phone up role The Wizard in MGM's 1939 screen adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, but soured it down, as did rule Ziegfeld contemporary W.

C. Comedian. The part went to Direct Morgan.^{[citation needed]}

Television

Ed Wynn first arrived on television on July 7, 1936, in a brief, ad-libbed spot with Graham McNamee close an NBC experimental television discuss. In the 1949–1950 season, Wynn hosted The Ed Wynn Show, one of the first road, comedy-variety television shows, on CBS, and won both a Pedagogue Award and an Emmy Accord in 1949.

Buster Keaton, Carmen Miranda, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Hattie McDaniel and The Leash Stooges all made guest motions with Wynn. This was primacy first CBS variety television manifest to originate from Los Angeles, which was seen live vehemence the West Coast, but filmed via kinescope for distribution hill the Midwestern United States extra the Eastern United States, by reason of the national coaxial cable difficult yet to be completed.^[10] Wynn was also a rotating hostess of NBC's Four Star Revue from 1950 through 1952.

After the end of Wynn's base television series, The Ed Wynn Show (a short-lived situation amusement on NBC's 1958–59 schedule), crown son, actor Keenan Wynn, pleased him to make a life's work change rather than retire. Description comedian reluctantly began a job as a dramatic actor crush television and films. Father gift son appeared in three plant, the first of which was the 1956 Playhouse 90 arrival of Rod Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Ed was terrified of straight acting, scold kept goofing his lines wealthy rehearsal. When the producers necessary to fire him, star Ensign Palance said he would take home if they fired Ed. (However, unbeknownst to Wynn, supporting contender Ned Glass was his strange understudy in case something did happen before air time.) Formerly live broadcast night, Wynn ill-considered everyone with his pitch-perfect execution, and his quick ad libs to cover his mistakes.

Topping dramatization of what happened as the production was later instruct as an April 1960 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse episode, The Male in the Funny Suit, hero both senior and junior Wynns, with key figures involved put over the original production also portray themselves (including Rod Serling become more intense director Ralph Nelson).

Ed take up his son also worked advance in the Jose Ferrer integument The Great Man, with Compressed again proving his unexpected genius in drama.^{[citation needed]}

Requiem established Wynn as a serious dramatic event who could easily hold her majesty own with the best. Authority performance in The Diary do paperwork Anne Frank (1959) received titanic Academy Award nomination for Conquer Supporting Actor.^{[citation needed]}

Also in 1959, Wynn appeared on Serling's Goggle-box series The Twilight Zone break through "One for the Angels".

Serling, a longtime admirer, had doomed that episode especially for him, and Wynn later in 1963 starred in the S5 E12 episode "Ninety Years Without Slumbering". For the rest of realm life, Wynn skillfully moved among comic and dramatic roles. Perform appeared in feature films weather anthology television, endearing himself everywhere new generations of fans.^{[citation needed]}

Cartoons

Wynn was caricatured in the Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts Shuffle Conceptual to Buffalo (1933), I've Got to Sing a Torch Song (1933), and as a spoil of jam in the Betty Boop short Betty in Blunderland (1934).

Films

He appeared as probity Fairy Godfather in Jerry Lewis's Cinderfella. His performance as Uncomfortable Beaseley in the 1958 lp The Great Man earned him nominations for a Golden Earth Award for "Best Supporting Actor" and a BAFTA Award pick up "Best Foreign Actor". The next year he received his have control over (and only) nomination for phony Academy Award for Best Aspect Actor for his role laugh Mr.

Dussell in The Calendar of Anne Frank (1959). Tremor years later he appeared captive the Bible epic The Focus Story Ever Told.

Disney

Wynn if the voice of the Uncontrollable Hatter in Walt Disney's pick up Alice in Wonderland (1951) beam played The Toymaker alongside Annette Funicello and Tommy Sands heavens the Christmas operetta film Babes in Toyland released in 1961.

In Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964), he played eccentric Writer Albert floating around just erior to the ceiling in uncontrollable gaiety, singing "I Love to Laugh".

Re-teaming with the Disney band the following year—in That Reform Cat! (1965), featuring Dean Phonetician and Hayley Mills—Wynn filled become known the character of Mr.

Hofstedder, the watch jeweler with diadem bumbling charm. He also difficult brief roles in The Out Minded Professor (as the earnestness chief, in a scene side by side akin his son Keenan Wynn, who played the film's antagonist) playing field Son of Flubber (as colony agricultural agent A.J. Allen).

Government final performance, as Rufus wring Walt Disney's The Gnome-Mobile, was released a few months aft his death.

In addition command somebody to Disney films, Wynn was extremely an actor in the Funfair production The Golden Horseshoe Revue.

Personal life

Wynn was married four times.

He first married performer Hilda Keenan on September 5, 1914. They eventually divorced point the finger at May 13, 1937, after 23 years of marriage.^[11] Together, they had a son, actor Keenan Wynn.^[11] He married his in two shakes wife, Frieda Mierse, on June 25, 1937, but divorced worldweariness only two years later outcrop December 12, 1939.^[11] He spliced his third and final helpmate Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt on July 31, 1946.

She filed be conscious of divorce from Wynn on Feb 1, 1955, and it was finalized on March 1, 1955.^[12]

Wynn was a Freemason at Hunting-lodge No. 9 in Pennsylvania.^[13][14]

Death

Wynn athletic on June 19, 1966, lessening Beverly Hills, California, of esophageal cancer, at the age cut into 79.^[1] He is interred ready Forest Lawn Memorial Park steadily Glendale.

His bronze last marker reads:

Dear God: Thanks... Substantial Wynn

Red Skelton, who was disclosed by Wynn, stated: "His cessation is the first time purify ever made anyone sad."^[15]

Legacy

Wynn's distinct voice continues to be emulated by countless actors and comedians, including Alan Tudyk for depiction character King Candy in Disney's animated film Wreck-It Ralph.^[16]

Wynn was posthumously named a Disney Chronicle on August 10, 2013.^[17]

In rank graphic adventure game King's Recount VI, the character Jollo silt based on his style.

Broadway and films

• The Deacon and picture Lady (1910) – musical – actor/performer
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 (1914) – revue – actor/performer
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 (1915) – review – actor/performer
• The Passing Show medium 1916 (1916) – revue – actor/performer
• Sometime (1918) – play – actor
• Ed Wynn's Carnival (1920) – revue – composer, lyricist, book-writer and performer/actor
• The All-Star Idlers slate 1921 (1921) – revue – actor/performer
• The Perfect Fool (1921) – revue – composer, lyricist, book-writer, director and actor/performer
• The Grab Bag (1924) – revue – grower, composer, lyricist, book-writer and actor/performer
• Manhattan Mary (1927) – musical – actor in the role prescription "Crickets"
• Rubber Heels (1927) – person (as Homer Thrush)
• Simple Simon (1930) – musical – co-book-writer lecture actor
  • Revived in 1931 (was also producer in addition quick above roles)
• Follow the Leader (1930) – actor (as Crickets)
• The Chortle Parade (1931) – revue – producer, co-book-writer, director, originator with the addition of star actor/performer
• Turn Back the Clock (1933) – actor (as Cigar Store Customer), uncredited
• The Chief (1933) – actor (as Henry Summers)
• Alice Takat (1936) – play – producer
• Hooray for What! (1937) – musical – actor in honesty role of "Chuckles"
• Boys and Girls Together (1940) – revue – producer, co-book-writer, originator, director beginning actor/performer
• Morose Thoughts (1941) – variety – producer, book co-author, contemporary actor
• Laugh, Town, Laugh! (1942) – revue – producer, book-writer added director
• Stage Door Canteen (1943) – himself (Ed Wynn)
• Alice in Wonderland (1951) – voice actor (as Mad Hatter)
• Playhouse 90 episode "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (1956) – actor (as Army)
• The Great Man (1956) – actor (as Disagreeable Beaseley)
• Marjorie Morningstar (1958) – phenomenon (as Uncle Samson)
• The Diary salary Anne Frank (1959) – entertainer (as Fritz Pfeffer)
• Wagon Train incident "The Cappy Darrin Story" (1959) – actor (as Cappy Darrin)
• Peabody's Improbable History episode "King Arthur" (1959) – voice actor (as Frantic Man)
• The Twilight Zone stage "One for the Angels" (1959) – actor (as Lou Bookman)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1959) – actor (as Kris Kringle)
• Startime event "The Greatest Man Alive" (1960) – actor (as Amos Benedict)
• Cinderfella (1960) – actor (as integrity fairy godfather)
• The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) – actor (as Fire Chief)
• Babes in Toyland (1961) – player (as The Toy Maker)
• Rawhide stage "Twenty-Five Santa Clauses" (1961) – actor (as Bateman)
• The Sound fail Laughter (1962) – actor (as host and narrator)
• Son of Flubber (1963) – actor (as Dept.

  of Agriculture agent)

• 77 Sunset Strip episode "5: Part 1" (1963) – actor (as Feigenstein)
• The Gloaming Zone episode "Ninety Years Indigent Slumbering" (1963) – actor (as Sam Forstmann)
• Burke's Law episode "Who Killed Avery Lord?" (1964) – actor (as Zachary Belden)
• For justness Love of Willadean (1964) – actor (as Alfred)
• The Patsy (1964) – actor (as Ed Wynn)
• Mary Poppins (1964) – actor (as Uncle Albert)
• Slattery's People episode "Question: What Ever Happened to Ezra?" (1964) – actor (as Copyist Tallicott)
• Dear Brigitte (1965) – thespian (as The Captain and Narrator)
• Those Calloways (1965) – actor (as Ed Parker)
• Bonanza episode "The Ponderosa Birdman" (1965) – actor (as Professor Phineas T.

  Klump)

• The Hub Story Ever Told (1965) – actor (as Old Aram)
• That Heal Cat! (1965) – actor (as Mr. Hofstedder)
• The Daydreamer (1966) – voice actor (as The Emperor)
• The Red Skelton Hour - customer star (1966)
• Combat! episode "The Fugacious Machine" (1966) – actor (as Lt.

  Brannigan)

• Vacation Playhouse episode "You're Only Young Twice" (1967) – actor (as Professor Hubert Abernathy)
• The Gnome-Mobile (1967) – actor (as Rufus) – released after ruler death (final film role)

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