Actor

Red Buttons

February 5, 1919 · New York City, New York, USA

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 corners as a child. At 16 he got a job as part of a comedy act playing the famed Catskills resort area in upstate New York (his partner was future actor Robert Alda). Buttons worked the burlesque circuit as a comic and even landed a role in a Broadway play, "Vicki", in 1942. He soon joined the U.S.

Notable work

7.6
The Longest Day (1962)
as Pvt. John Steele
7.2
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
as James Martin
8
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
as William 'Willie' O'Hara
6.7
It Could Happen to You (1994)
as Walter Zakuto
7.8
ER (1994)
as Ruby
6.3
Pete's Dragon (1977)
as Hoagy
7
The Cosby Show (1984)
as Jake Bennett
7
Wonder Woman (1975)
as Ashley Norman
7.5
One, Two, Three (1961)
as MP Sergeant (uncredited)
6.8
Roseanne (1988)
cast
7.6
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
as Sailor
6.2
The Story of Us (1999)
as Arnie Jordan

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