Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason is interred in the Our Lady Of Mercy Cemetery, Miami Beach, Florida. He appeared in many films, among them:. There was even a report that Richard Nixon took Gleason to view the remains of aliens killed in the crash of a flying saucer, but as this particular report first appeared in the pages of the National Enquirer, it is dubious at best. He died of cancer in 1986. Gleason apparently believed in UFOs, and claimed to have seen them himself. Both books were well received. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit series of fims. He wrote his autobiography Wanderer in 1963 and an adventure novel of the tall ships, Voyage: A Novel of 1896 in 1976.

Later in life, Jackie Gleason gained fame for his portrayal of Sheriff Buford T. He defied a court order once and sailed to Tahiti with his children following a divorce. In his early life he was known for his fatness, but later he slimmed down. He professed distaste for film acting, claiming that he did it mainly to pay for his sailing vessels. His trademark phrase was "How sweet it is!" during the applause when he first opened his comedy act. Ever after regretted this action, holding himself in enormous contempt for what he considered 'ratting'.". In the 1960s he had his own show entitled The Jackie Gleason Show. According to his IMDB biography (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001330/bio), "As Red Scare deepens in U.S., he cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, confessing his brief Communist ties.

Later it was recast. His admiration for the Communist partisans led to a brief involvement with the Communist Party. In the late 1940s he played Chester Riley in the The Life of Riley situation comedy in its first incarnation. He won the Silver Star and a commendation from Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito. Ralph, his buddy Ed Norton, and their wives Alice Kramden and Trixie Norton were later transplanted into the stone age as The Flintstones, the entire show being a transparent tribute to The Honeymooners. His World War 2 service included running guns through German lines to the Yugoslav partisans and parachuting into Croatia. Herbert John (Jackie) Gleason The Great One-(February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was a Brooklyn-born comedian famous for brash humor and fast ad-libs who immortalized his Brooklyn neighborhood in The Honeymooners, playing bus driver Ralph Kramden. He also joined the Marines under the name John Hamilton.

After only two film roles, however, he left Hollywood to serve as an undercover agent with the with William J. Donovan's COI office and remained after it became the OSS. His first film role starred Madeleine Carroll, with whom he fell in love and married. He became a print model and eventually was signed to a contract with Paramount Studios, who dubbed the 6' 5" (1.96 m) actor The Most Beautiful Man in the Movies and The Beautiful Blond Viking God. After serving as sailor and fireman on larger vessels, he was awarded his first command at 19, and sailed around the world several times.

He ran away to sea at 17, as a ship's boy, then later was a fisherman on the Grand Banks. Hayden was a genuine adventurer and man of action, not dissimilar from many of his movie parts. As a child, he lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Maine, where he attended Wassookeag School in Dexter, Maine. After his father died, he was adopted at the age of nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden.

Hayden's parents were George and Frances Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. He also played the Irish policeman, Captain McCluskey, who was gunned down by Al Pacino, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in 1972. Strangelove (1964). Ripper in Dr.

Zero Hour!(1957). Ten Days to Tulara (1958). Terror in a Texas Town (1958). Strangelove (1964).

Dr. Carol for Another Christmas TV (1964). Hard Contract (1969). Ternos Cacadores (1969).