What actor known for comic sneeze routines appeared in the film Reaching for the Sun?
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Reaching for the Sun Reaching for the Sun is a 1941 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman and written by W.L. River. The film stars Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken, Albert Dekker, Billy Gilbert, George Chandler and Bodil Ann Rosing. The film was released on May 2, 1941, by Paramount Pictures.
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Billy Gilbert William "Billy" Gilbert (Born William Gilbert Barron; September 12, 1894 – September 23, 1971) was an American comedian and actor known for his comic sneeze routines. He appeared in over 200 feature films, short subjects and television shows starting in 1929.
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B.S. Pully B.S. Pully, (born Murray Lerman, May 14, 1910 - January 6, 1972) was a New York nightclub comedian and stage actor who created the role of Big Jule in the musical "Guys and Dolls". He was noted for his blue humor and thick, gravelly voice.
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Eddie Cantor Eddie Cantor (January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964), born Edward Israel Itzkowitz, was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway, radio, movie, and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a family member by millions because his top-rated radio shows revealed intimate stories and amusing anecdotes about his wife Ida and five daughters. Some of his hits include "Makin' Whoopee", "Ida", "Yes! We Have No Bananas", "If You Knew Susie", "Ma! He's Makin' Eyes at Me", "Baby", "Margie", and "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?" He also wrote a few songs, including "Merrily We Roll Along", the "Merrie Melodies" Warner Bros. cartoon theme.
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Bob Newhart George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery. Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues, "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart", became a worldwide bestseller and reached number one on the "Billboard" pop album chart—it remains the 20th-best selling comedy album in history. The follow-up album, "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!", was also a massive success, and the two albums held the "Billboard" number one and number two spots simultaneously.
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Groucho Marx Julius Henry Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), known professionally as Groucho Marx ( ), was an American writer, comedian, stage, film, radio, and television star. He was known as a master of quick wit and is widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era.
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Paul Hogan Paul Hogan, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 8 October 1939) is an Australian comedian, actor and television presenter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance as outback adventurer Michael "Crocodile" Dundee in "Crocodile Dundee" (1986), the first in the Dundee film franchise.
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Stuart Pankin Stuart Pankin (born April 8, 1946) is an American comic actor who is best known for his comedy roles, he has frequently performed at St. Vincent Summer Theatre. On television, he has played anchor Bob Charles in "Not Necessarily the News", Earl Sinclair in "Dinosaurs" and Orthodox Jew Ben Heineman in "Curb Your Enthusiasm", as well as making many guest appearances in many television shows and lending his voice into various animated shows and film. Among his approximately three dozen films was "Hollywood Knights", and he starred in "" and its sequels, as Commander Plank. He also appeared in "Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves" and "Arachnophobia" and as Jimmy in "Fatal Attraction".
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Jack Rice Jack Rice (May 14, 1893 – December 14, 1968) was an American actor best known for appearing as the scrounging, freeloading brother-in-law in Edgar Kennedy's series of short domestic comedy films at the RKO studio, and also as "Ollie" in around a dozen of Columbia Pictures's series of the "Blondie" comic strip.
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Search for Beauty Search for Beauty is a 1934 pre-Code dramedy film, with some musical Busby Berkeley-esque athletic sequences, directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Buster Crabbe and Ida Lupino. They play a pair of lovers and aquatic champion Olympians (he a swimmer, she a diver) who become the face of a health magazine, which over their objections is turned into a "skin" rag. Armstrong and Michael portray ex-cons with the 'scheme' (and both have designs to break up the loving couple for themselves), and Gleason is their cohort. In his first few scenes Crabbe promotes exercise: "Get off your (pause) 'feet' and get on them!"
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Stubby Kaye Bernard Solomon Kotzin (November 11, 1918 – December 14, 1997), known as Stubby Kaye, was an American comic actor known for his appearances in Broadway and film musicals.
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Lou Holtz (actor) Lou Holtz (April 11, 1893 – September 22, 1980, Beverly Hills, California) was an American vaudevillian, comic actor, and theatrical producer.
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Will Hay William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, author, film director and amateur astronomer who came to notice for his theatrical sketch as a jocular schoolmaster, known as Dr. Muffin. The acts in which Hay performed the schoolmaster sketch became known as "The Fourth Form at St. Michael's". Hay toured with act and appeared in America, Canada, Australia and South Africa. From 1934 to 1943, he was a prolific film star in Britain, and was ranked the third highest grossing star at the British Box Office in 1938, behind George Formby and Gracie Fields.
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Freddie Frinton Freddie Frinton, born Frederick Bittiner Coo, (17 January 1909 – 16 October 1968) was an English comedian and music hall and television actor who remains a household name in Germany and Scandinavia because of his performance in "Dinner for One".
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Michu Meszaros Mihaly "Michu" Meszaros (Hungarian: Mészáros Mihály; October 1, 1939 – June 12, 2016) was a Hungarian-born American actor, circus performer/entertainer, and stuntman, who as an American citizen was best remembered as a performer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and for his role in the NBC sitcom "ALF". He was 2 ft tall. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Meszaros was a television and film actor, and he also appeared opposite pop singer Michael Jackson in a Pepsi commercial and on the "Strange Days" album cover for The Doors. His last appearance was in 2015's "Death to Cupid".
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (November 30, 1918 – May 2, 2014) was an American actor known for his starring roles in the television series "77 Sunset Strip" and "The F.B.I." He is also known as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series "Maverick" and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth in "" and associated spin-offs. He also voiced Doctor Octopus in the 1990s "Spider-Man" animated series, and Justin Hammer from the second season of the 1994 "Iron Man" animated series.
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Joe E. Brown Joe E. Brown (July 28, 1891 – July 6, 1973) was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his amiable screen persona, comic timing, and enormous elastic-mouth smile. He was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s, with successful films like "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Earthworm Tractors", and "Alibi Ike". In his later career Brown starred in "Some Like It Hot" (1959), as Osgood Fielding III, in which he utters the famous punchline, "Well, nobody's perfect."
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Brian Keith Brian Keith (born Robert Alba Keith, November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997) was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his six-decade-long career gained recognition for his work in movies such as the Disney family film "The Parent Trap" (1961), the comedy "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" (1966), and the adventure saga "The Wind and the Lion" (1975), in which he portrayed President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Jerry Colonna (entertainer) Gerardo Luigi "Jerry" Colonna (September 17, 1904 – November 22, 1986) was an American musician, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter and trombonist best remembered as the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks in Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Jeff Allen (comedian) Jeff Allen (born Jeffrey Allen Mishler; June 5, 1956) is an American comedian best known for his film Happy Wife, Happy Life, Revisited. He is also known for his starring roles in several full-length comedy films, including: Bananas, Thou Shalt Laugh, Apostles of Comedy, and Apostles of Comedy: Onwards and Upwards. Allen currently tours the United States performing in churches, corporate venues and comedy clubs.
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Nathaniel Taylor (actor) Nathaniel Taylor (born March 31, 1938) is an American television actor, best known for his recurring role as Rollo Lawson in the 1970s sitcom "Sanford and Son", a role he later reprised on its 1980–1981 spin-off "Sanford", and later played the first version of "Jim-Jam" alongside Redd Foxx on the short lived 1986 series, "The Redd Foxx Show". Later, he played Rerun's (Fred Berry) brother-in-law "Ike" in the sitcom "What's Happening!!". Taylor's character "Rollo" once referred to Foxx's character "Fred G. Sanford" as, "One cold-blooded old dude."
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Bob Hope filmography This is a selection of films and television appearances by British-American comedian and actor Bob Hope. Although Hope began his career in 1919 with a brief stint as a boxer, Hope began his acting career in 1925 in various vaudeville acts and stage performances, before making his film debut in 1934's "Going Spanish". Hope would continue to act, in addition to stand-up comedy USO performances for American military personnel stationed overseas, until his retirement from show business in 1997.