Most Recent Role: Fire Chief on Disneyland
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Birthday: 11-9-1886
Birth Name: Isiah Edwin Leopold
Date of Death: 6-19-1966
Cause of Death: Throat Cancer
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Birthday: 11-9-1886
Birth Name: Isiah Edwin Leopold
Date of Death: 6-19-1966
Cause of Death: Throat Cancer
Spouse: Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt (1946-1955)
Frieda Mierse (1937-1939)
Hilda Keenan (1914-1937)
Most Recent Appearance
The Absent-Minded Professor (1)
Sunday 9 September 1979 on ABC
A bumbling professor accidently invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is...
Ed won the 1950 Emmy for Most Outstanding Live Personality.
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Ed suffered from a nervous breakdown after several of his business ventures collapsed in the 1930s.
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Ed has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6420 Hollywood Blvd for his television career.
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Ed was married to Frieda Mierse between 1937-39.
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Ed is buried at Daffodil Corridor, Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn, Glendale, California.
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Ed: Wasn't it Whistler who said that a great painter was one who could hide the effort which he put into his work? The same thing goes for gags. It often takes hours to think up something that is said in seconds.
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Ed: A comedian says funny things. A comic says things funny.
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Other Appearances
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All-Star Revue
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Four Star Revue
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The Ed Wynn Show
Host/Performer |
The Twilight Zone
Lew Bookman |
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77 Sunset Strip
5 (1) |
Alcoa Hour
Protege Billy Bishop |
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Bonanza
The Ponderosa Birdman Professor Phineas T. Klump |
Burke's Law
Who Killed Avery Lord? Zachary Belden |
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December Bride
The Ed Wynn Show Himself |
Disneyland
The Absent-Minded Professor (1) Fire Chief |
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Four Star Revue
April 4, 1951 H |
Four Star Revue
March 28, 1951 Guest |
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The Bob Hope Show
April 8, 1951 Himself |
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more Four Star Revue
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