Currie has had many famous characters of the past such as Mike Maher, Melvin Shreier, Ken Gleason & John Ruppert to name a few.

Mike Snider, Grand Ole Opry star, was born and maintains a home in Gleason.

While on their way to practice at the Polo Grounds, Davis and teammates Kid Gleason and Mike Grady stumbled upon a raging tenement fire.

* Jackie Gleason and Art Carney are guests on " The Mike Douglas Show " in their roles as Kramden and Norton on an episode of " The Color Honeymooners " musical-variety TV programs in the late 1960s.

Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 action comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry.

However, by picking up Carrie, Bandit becomes the target of Texas Sheriff Buford T. Justice ( Jackie Gleason ), " a respectable law officer of over thirty years seniority ", whose handsome yet very simple-minded son Junior ( Mike Henry ) was to have been Carrie's groom.

There was a different co-host every week on the show during its entire run, including Shirley Bassey, James Brown, Cesar Romero, Jackie Gleason, Barbra Streisand, Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter, Jimmy Dean, Richard Thomas, Florence Henderson, Brooke Shields, Shelley Berman, Richard Pryor, Dyan Cannon, The 5th Dimension, Suzanne Somers, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles, Mike Connors, Minnie Pearl, Shirley Bassey, Bobby Darin, Tony Randall, Kaye Ballard, Totie Fields, David Brenner, Ted Knight, Bernadette Peters, Kate Jackson, Harry Chapin, Rod McKuen, Dick Gregory, Joe E. Brown, Forrest Tucker, Pat Carroll, Vivian Vance, Anita Bryant, Louie Nye, Pat O ' Brien, Linda Darnell, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Pat Harrington, Jr., George Jessel, Dody Goodman, Billy DeWolfe, Hildegarde, The Smothers Brothers Cicely Tyson, Karen Valentine, Johnny Mathis, Joel Grey, Carol Channing, Anne Murray, Anthony Newley, Marvin Hamlisch, Patty Duke, Cher, Mel Tillis, Steve Lawrence, Martha Raye, Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Frankie Avalon, Charlton Heston, Gordon MacRae, Richard Harris, Red Buttons, Billy Crystal, David Steinberg, Hugh O ' Brian, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, John Lennon & Yoko Ono.

This was followed by a win over Kid Gleason, and a second round stoppage of Mike Loughlin.

Frog abandons her second attempt at wedding Buford T. Justice's ( Jackie Gleason ) son Junior ( Mike Henry ) to help.

The new anchors are Mike Gleason and Lowell Galindo.

Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 is the ( 1983 ) sequel to Smokey and the Bandit and Smokey and the Bandit II starring Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick, Mike Henry and Colleen Camp.

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

Mike Brown, the team's de facto general manager, was rated as among the worst team owners in American professional sports Compounding matters were off-field problems of several players, notably receiver Chris Henry, who was suspended several times during his short professional career and was actually released by the Bengals at one point, but was then re-signed for the season.

* Irwin R. Schyster, often abbreviated I. R. S., a ring name of professional wrestler Mike Rotunda

* 1965 – Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler ( d. 2007 )

** Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler

* August 25 – Mike Lockwood ( Crash Holly ), American World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) professional wrestler ( d. 2003 )

Noting the trend in reality shows that take the paranormal at face value, The New York Times culture editor Mike Hale characterized ghost hunting shows as " pure theater " and compared the genre to professional wrestling or soft core pornography for its formulaic, teasing approach.

Two castmembers of non-athletic reality shows, Mike " The Miz " Mizanin ( from The Real World and its spin-off, The Challenge ) and David Otunga ( from I Love New York ), became professional wrestlers for World Wrestling Entertainment.

On May 2, 2011, the Tennessee Senate passed Resolution 30, congratulating Mike Curtis and Joe Staton on their professional accomplishments, including Dick Tracy.

* Mike Kinkade, professional baseball player

* Mike Mercer ( American football ), former American college and professional football player

* Mike Devereaux, professional baseball player with World Series rings with Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves

* Mike Houghton, professional football

* Mike McGill, professional skateboarder.

* Mike Lambert: former professional beach volleyball player

* Mike LaRocco, professional Supercross and Motocross racer

The most prominent and most prolific modern-day suppliers of professional ventriloquial dummies include Steve Axtell, Tim Selberg, Alan Semok, Ray Guyll, Conrad Hartz, Geoffrey Felix, Jerry Layne, Mike Brose, and Albert Alfaro.

* Mike Meyers ( baseball ) ( born 1977 ), former professional baseball pitcher

* Mike Heinen, professional golfer

* Mike Lima, ( 1985 -) professional soccer player

* Mike Weger, business owner, former professional football player

* Mike Hegstrand, professional wrestler, Hawk, One half of the Road Warriors, 1958-2003.

* Mike Kingery, ( born March 29, 1961 in St. James, Minnesota ), is a former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as an outfielder from 1986 – 1992 and 1994-1996.

* Mike Vallely ( born 1970 ), professional skateboarder.

The first foil board was created to tow behind the boat by surfer turned water skier Mike Mack in 1993.

This theory was further validated when professional surfer Mike Parsons, who wiped out on the following wave, said that he came into contact with something, possibly Foo, as he was tumbled around underwater.

Both snowboarders, and Mike a surfer since the age of 15, they became friends.

Transylvania Express ( December 10, 1994 ) – Two surfer dudes, none other than Mike and Ben, get on a train headed for Transylvania, where they must fight back against vampires.

Mike stripped these from him and donned them.

Mike silenced them.

Mike debated it, trying to decide whether Fiske was strong enough to ride.

About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade, as best Mike could make out in the moonlight.

Mike turned away.

He released her and joined Mike.

Mike only said, `` Later ''.

And using him, Mike McLish, as a sop to her pride.

Mike passed through it and moved toward the dark mass of horses.

Just me '', Mike said.

Mike kept walking and got within arm's reach before the man became suspicious and straightened from his lax slouch.

Mike struck with the muzzle of the pistol.

Mike, off balance, managed to bat the muzzle away a moment before it exploded.

Mike swung the pistol in a savage backlash.

Mike said.

Mike took the bayonet from Dean's hand and slashed the picket line.

Mike said frantically.

Dean still hesitated, but Mike lifted him almost bodily into the saddle and thrust the reins in his hand.

`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.

Mike ran down the line, slashing picket ropes with the bayonet.

Mike yelled.

Mike made a dash to the rear of the frame buildings.

Mike crawled to the door and peered in.

Mike seized a blanket from a pallet in a corner, spread it on the floor and used it to form a bag in which he placed his booty.

Mike rolled to Susan, grasped her around the knees, dragging her off her feet.