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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 in New York City's Lower East Side, Buttons (who got his name from a uniform he wore while working as a singing bellhop) 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. Marine Corps, and in 1943 was picked for a role in Moss Hart's service play "Winged Victory" on Broadway, and soon afterwards journeyed to Hollywood to make the film version. After his discharge from the service he returned to Broadway, both in plays and as a comic with several big-band orchestras. He was successful enough that he got his own TV series, The Red Buttons Show (1952), on CBS. It lasted three years and won Buttons an Emmy for Best Comedian. He worked steadily for the next several years, and in 1957 got his big film break in the drama Sayonara (1957) with Marlon Brando, in which he played an American soldier stationed in Japan who struggled against the societal and racist pressures of both American and Japanese cultures because of his love for a Japanese woman. His performance garnered him an Academy Award, and more film roles followed. He played a paratrooper in The Longest Day (1962), was nominated for a Golden Globe for Harlow (1965) and again for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). He had a part in the TV series The Double Life of Henry Phyfe (1966) and has done pretty much every kind of TV show there is, from variety to comedy to soap operas. He gained further renown in the 1970s for his appearances on the "Dean Martin Celebrity Roast" where he performed his "Never Got a Dinner" act to great acclaim. He has played Las Vegas for years, has a star on Hollywood Boulevard (corner of Hollywood and Vine) and has appeared in numerous telethons and charitable events, for which he has been honored by such organizations as the Friars Club and the City of Hope Hospital.- Producer
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Scott Bushnell was born on 18 July 1937 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a producer and costume designer, known for Popeye (1980), Nashville (1975) and The Player (1992). She was married to William H. Bushnell. She died on 13 July 2006 in Burbank, California, USA.- Mark Ryder was born on 30 May 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Folio (1955). He was married to Mary Ratcliffe, Ann Dolores Dumaresq and Emily Frankel. He died on 13 July 2006 in Columbia, Maryland, USA.
- Dragomir Felba was born on 7 July 1921 in Skoplje, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Daleko je sunce (1953), Square of Violence (1961) and Die rote Zora und ihre Bande (1979). He died on 13 July 2006 in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Tomasz Zaliwski was born on 15 December 1929 in Rudzieniec, Lubelskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Death of a President (1977), Zamach stanu (1980) and Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (1984). He was married to Teresa Lipowska. He died on 13 July 2006 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Writer
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Romain Weingarten was born on 5 December 1926 in Paris, France. He was a writer and actor, known for The Master and Margaret (1972), Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1977) and La belle au bois dormant (1973). He was married to Florence Loeb. He died on 13 July 2006 in Challans, Vendée, France.- Special Effects
Carl Bressler is known for The Replacements: When It Began (1991). Carl died on 13 July 2006 in the USA.- Dan S. Potter was born on 2 January 1932 in Tuttle, Oklahoma, USA. Dan S. was a writer, known for Shoestring Theatre (1959). Dan S. died on 13 July 2006.
- Pirmin Trecu was born in 1930 in Zarautz, Basque Country, Spain. He was an actor, known for Why Bother to Knock (1961), The Royal Ballet (1960) and Music for You (1951). He died on 13 July 2006 in Madrid, Spain.
- Gerhard Jussenhoven was born on 30 January 1911 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He died on 13 July 2006 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Syd Francis was born in 1940 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He died on 13 July 2006 in Spain.
- Herman Lercher was born on 16 July 1909 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Lata dwudzieste... lata trzydzieste... (1984), Kim jest ten czlowiek? (1985) and How Far, How Near (1972). He died on 13 July 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Zdzislaw Salaburski was born on 3 July 1922 in Czestochowa, Slaskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Polskie drogi (1976), The Gorgon Case (1977) and Barbara i Jan (1965). He died on 13 July 2006 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.