Ed Wynn

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Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor. Ed Wynn first appeared on television on July 7, 1936 in a brief, ad-libbed spot with Graham McNamee during an NBC experimental television broadcast. In the 1949–50 season, Ed Wynn hosted one of the first network, comedy-variety television shows, on CBS, and won both a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award in 1949. Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, and The Three Stooges all made guest appearances with Wynn. This was the first CBS variety television show to originate from Los Angeles, which was seen live on the west coast, but filmed via kinescope for distribution in the Midwest and East, as the national coaxial cable had yet to be completed. Wynn was also a rotating host of NBC's Four Star Revue from 1950 through 1952. After the end of Wynn's third television series, The Ed Wynn Show (a short-lived situation comedy on NBC's 1958–59 schedule), his son, actor Keenan Wynn, encouraged him to make a career change rather than retire. The comedian reluctantly began a career as a dramatic actor in television and movies. Father and son appeared in three productions, the first of which was the 1956 Playhouse 90 broadcast of Rod Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight. Ed was terrified of straight acting and kept goofing his lines in rehearsal. When the producers wanted to fire him, star Jack Palance said he would quit if they fired Ed. (However, unbeknownst to Wynn, supporting player Ned Glass was his secret understudy in case something did happen before air time.) On live broadcast night, Wynn surprised everyone with his pitch-perfect performance, and his quick ad libs to cover his mistakes. A dramatization of what happened during the production was later staged as an April 1960 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse episode, "The Man in the Funny Suit", starring both senior and junior Wynns, with key figures involved in the original production also portraying themselves. Ed and his son also worked together in the Jose Ferrer film The Great Man, with Ed again proving his unexpected skills in drama. Requiem established Wynn as a serious dramatic actor who could easily hold his own with the best. His role in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) won him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Also in 1959, Wynn appeared on Serling's TV series The Twilight Zone in "One for the Angels". Serling, a longtime admirer, had written that episode especially for him, and Wynn later in 1963 starred in the episode "Ninety Years Without Slumbering". For the rest of his life, Wynn skillfully moved between comic and dramatic roles. He appeared in feature films and anthology television, endearing himself to new generations of fans.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1886-11-09
  • event Death Date 1966-06-19
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 0.6
  • info Birth Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Ed Wynn

7.6

Mary Poppins

1964-12-17

6.4

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965-04-09

7.2

The Diary of Anne Frank

1959-03-18

6.2

The Gnome-Mobile

1967-07-19

7.2

Alice in Wonderland

1951-07-28

5.8

Babes in Toyland

1961-12-14

6.2

Marjorie Morningstar

1958-04-24

6.2

Those Calloways

1964-11-10

6.1

Cinderfella

1960-12-18

6.2

The Patsy

1964-06-24

5

The Daydreamer

1966-06-01

5.4

Follow the Leader

1930-12-06

3

The Chief

1933-11-03

7

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

1962-01-06

5.2

The Great Man

1956-12-01

3

Hollywood on Parade

1932-06-05

5

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

2021-08-16

5.8

Stage Door Canteen

1943-06-24

6.5

The Absent-Minded Professor

1961-01-20

5.9

Son of Flubber

1963-01-16

5.1

Turn Back the Clock

1933-08-25

6.6

That Darn Cat!

1965-12-02

5

Meet Me in St. Louis

1959-04-26

0

Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge

2008-03-18

6.9

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976-05-16

6

For the Love of Willadean

1964-03-08

6.4

Dear Brigitte

1965-01-08

2

The Sound of Laughter

1963-12-17

0

The Golden Horseshoe Revue

1962-09-23

7.3

Operation Wonderland

1951-06-14

7

Backstage Party

1961-12-17

7

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1956-10-11

7

Miracle On 34th Street

1959-11-27

0

On Borrowed Time

1957-11-17

0

The Three Stooges: Live and Hilarious

1941-12-16

0

Rubber Heels

1927-06-11

0

Hooray for Hollywood

1976-01-01

0

Reflections on Alice

6

Burke's Law

1963-09-20

6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950-09-10

7.6

Playhouse 90

1956-10-04

6.3

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951-12-24

8.5

The Twilight Zone

1959-10-02

5.8

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

1958-10-06

7.2

Rawhide

1959-01-09

4.5

The Hollywood Palace

1964-01-04

6.5

This Is Your Life

1952-10-01

5.5

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955-10-05

6

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

1956-10-05

7

The Ed Wynn Show

1949-10-06

5.6

The Steve Allen Show

1956-06-24

6.7

77 Sunset Strip

1958-10-10

7.9

The Emmy Awards

1949-01-25

5.5

December Bride

1954-10-04

6.7

Four Star Revue

1950-10-04

7.5

Bonanza

1959-09-12

6.3

Wagon Train

1957-09-18

7.4

The Red Skelton Show

1951-09-30

7.4

The Red Skelton Show

1951-09-30

7.4

The Red Skelton Show

1951-09-30

7.4

The Red Skelton Show

1951-09-30

7.4

The Red Skelton Show

1951-09-30

6

Startime

1959-10-06

6.3

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962-10-01

7

The Bob Hope Show

1950-04-09

6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

8.5

The Twilight Zone

1959-10-02

7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27

7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27

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The Ed Wynn Show

1958-09-25

6.9

What's My Line?

1950-02-02

7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27

7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27