" With the addition of Meadows the now-famous " Honeymooners " lineup of Gleason, Carney, Meadows, and Randolph was in place.

" In addition to Jack Benny appearing, Jackie Gleason made a surprise cameo reprising his role of bus driver Ralph Kramden.

In addition to acting, Gleason directed several episodes of this show.

At age 12, he did a walk-on in a stock theatre production which featured James Gleason and he was ' hooked ' on an acting career.

When the film was released, New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, liked the direction of the film and the acting, writing, " Yet such is the role that Mr. Sinatra plays in Suddenly !, a taut little melodrama that ... shapes up as one of the slickest recent items in the minor movie league ... we have several people to thank-particularly Richard Sale for a good script, which tells a straight story credibly, Mr. Allen for direction that makes both excitement and sense, Mr. Bassler for a production that gets the feel of a small town and the cast which includes Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates.

In high school Gleason received acting instruction from John Ingle, the soap-opera star, who taught at BHHS from 1955 to 1985.

She was married to acting coach Paul G. Gleason, whose last name she kept as her professional surname.

Kovack became interested in acting when she went to New York City to attend a wedding and became one of the Glea Girls for Jackie Gleason.

Gleason is currently a Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at Boston University, where she spent most of her professional career, where she has also served as department chair and director of the Graduate Program in Human Development.

Gleason resigned in 2005 to pursue a career in Medical Consulting at Health Policy Strategies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

When his contract with DuMont expired, Jackie Gleason moved to the CBS network where he had " The Jackie Gleason Show ", and the role went to Audrey Meadows ; Pert Kelton's husband had been blacklisted during the McCarthy hearings, affecting her career at the time.

Gleason compiled a. 261 career batting average before retiring after the 1912 season.

Although Gleason has had an active film and TV career, she is probably best known for her stage work.

" The protagonist, played by Anthony Quinn, is a punch-drunk prize fighter slipping into oblivion but his manager, played by Jackie Gleason, finds a way to squeeze a few more bucks from his career by lining him up for a " professional wrestling " match.

Born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease in Jersey City, New Jersey, she began her career as a Ford Agency high-fashion model before landing the television role of the “ Away We Go !” girl on The Jackie Gleason Show in the 1950s.

The first was the historic dance at the Longshoremen's Hall in San Francisco on October 16, 1965, the first of many ' happenings ' in the Bay Area, where Gleason first saw them perform.

Art Carney, Academy Award-winning actor, Co-star of the successful TV Series " The Honeymooners " with Jackie Gleason, lived with his family in Westbrook on the shore of Long Island Sound for many years prior to his death in 2003.

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

In those 11 years, Martin and his panel of pals successfully ridiculed and made fun of these legendary stars in this order: Ronald Reagan, Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon, William Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson, Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey, Carroll O ' Connor, Monty Hall, Jack Klugman & Tony Randall, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Leo Durocher, Truman Capote, Don Rickles, Ralph Nader, Jack Benny, Redd Foxx, Bobby Riggs, George Washington, Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Hank Aaron, Joe Namath, Bob Hope, Telly Savalas, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Landon, Evel Knievel, Valerie Harper, Muhammad Ali, Dean Martin, Dennis Weaver, Joe Garagiola, Danny Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Gabe Kaplan, Ted Knight, Peter Marshall, Dan Haggerty, Frank Sinatra, Jack Klugman, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Betty White, Suzanne Somers, Joan Collins, and Mr T. For nearly a decade, Martin had recorded as many as four albums a year for Reprise Records.

In 1950, Jackie Gleason was starring in a New York – based comedy-variety series, Cavalcade of Stars, and played many different characters.

In 1955, many television shows ( including The Jackie Gleason Show ) were performed live and recorded using kinescope technology, though sitcoms were already largely done on film, e. g., The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, My Little Margie, I Married Joan.

Gleason starred in many movies, and became well-known initially as Dr. David Thornton on All My Children, playing the role from 1976 to 1978.

Two of them were slightly famous on their own: his Uncle Pat was " Blacky the Bootblack ", whom Joseph Kennedy credited as his main influence when he sold all of his stock holdings in the summer of 1929 ( the market crashed in October ), and his aunt Pauline was one of the best-known chefs to the stars, working for Jackie Gleason, Burt Reynolds and many other luminaries.

After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get a job working for the local paper, the Bugle, he becomes so desperate that he ends up taking a job as a " cleaning lady " for wealthy U. S. Bates ( Gleason ), who owns the paper and many other businesses.

Eastman Kodak continued to dominate the film and camera industry and was Rochester's leading industrial employer, but other Rochester companies also employed many technical and manufacturing personnel, including Gleason Works, Stromberg-Carlson, Taylor Instrument, Ritter Dental Equipment, Rochester Products Division of General Motors, and Pfaudler-Permutit.

He now remains in a coma, and Sara has had to deal with a nosy new partner, Patrick Gleason, who has already discovered many of her secrets.

In the early and mid-Fifties, the theater played host to many of the live telecasts of The Jackie Gleason Show.

Critic Ralph Gleason said, " So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed through the doors that Lenny opened.

Distribution of the exponents for the smaller Pierpont primes Andrew Gleason conjectured there are infinitely many Pierpont primes.

A four-member celebrity panel would stick their heads into a life-sized illustration of a famous scene or song lyric and then take turns asking yes / no questions to Gleason to try to figure out what scene they were a part of.

In 1970, the Inverrary Country Club was built, and in 1972 its golf course became home to the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic.

Gleason himself built his final home on the golf course.

To compensate, the cast developed visual cues for each other: Gleason patted his stomach when he forgot a line, while Meadows would glance at the refrigerator when someone else was supposed to retrieve something from it.

The 10 players not implicated in the gambling scandal, as well as manager Kid Gleason, were each given bonus checks in the amount of $ 1500 by Charles A. Comiskey in the fall of 1920 — the difference between the winners ' and losers ' share for participation in the 1919 World Series.

Gleason and Duncan were particularly close and read and criticized each other's work.

Instead of using different musicians for each song as he had done on 1980's Seeds of Change, he put together a single group consisting of himself, Hope, Ham, Gleason, and drummer Dennis Holt.

Gleason Lake has a student council, which is made up of two representatives of each third through fifth grade classroom.

After the first year, Gleason and his writing staff developed a sketch that drew upon familiar domestic situations for its material.

White Sox coach Kid Gleason helped him hone his skills and, by the following year, Schalk had become the starting catcher in place of Billy Sullivan, and led the American League catchers in putouts.

* A boom year for the burgeoning American comic book industry, as Archie Comics, Fawcett Comics, Fox Feature Syndicate, Lev Gleason Publications, Marvel Comics / Timely Comics, Nedor Comics, and Quality Comics all begin publishing.

" Talking to jazz journalist Ralph J. Gleason the following year, he said, " I learned to play the guitar from an old colored man.