Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
2/5/1919
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Cpl. Red ButtonsAaron Chwatt
Red Buttons
Biography
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 on February 5, 1919 (Aquarius) in New York City's Lower East Side, stood at a height of 5' 6" (1.68 m). Buttons (who got his name from a uniform he wore while working as a singing bellhop), also known as Cpl. Red Buttons, 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...
Known For
Hatari!
as Pockets
It Could Happen to You
as Walter Zakuto
Winged Victory
as Whitey / Andrews Sister
The Users
as Warren Ambrose
Stagecoach
as Peacock
The Longest Day
as Pvt. John Steele
One, Two, Three
as MP Sergeant (uncredited)
Pete's Dragon
as Hoagy
Power
as Solly Weiss
The Story of Us
as Arnie Jordan
Telethon
as Marty Rand
A Ticklish Affair
as Flight Officer Simon 'Uncle Cy' Shelley
Viva Knievel!
as Ben Andrews
The Muppets Go Hollywood
as Self
When Time Ran Out...
as Francis Fendly
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
as Sailor
Harlow
as Arthur Landau
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
as Milton (voice)
Joys
as Self
Five Weeks in a Balloon
as Donald O'Shay