Personal Info
Cpl. Red Buttons
Aaron Chwatt
Red Buttons
Acting
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
Filmography
Movies
Goodnight, We Love You
as Self
The Story of Us
as Arnie Jordan
Ghosts of Fear Street
as Grandpa
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
as Self
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
as Self
It Could Happen to You
as Walter Zakuto
The Ambulance
as Elias Zacharai
George Burns: His Wit and Wisdom
as Self - Burns Card Play Partner (uncredited)
18 Again!
as Charlie
Jackie Gleason: The Great One
as Self
TV Shows
Street Time
as Sam Kahan · 4 ep.
Presidio Med
as Chick · 1 ep.
Philly
1 ep.
Family Law
as Carl Porter · 1 ep.
Early Edition
as Walter Stites · 1 ep.
Cosby
1 ep.
ER
as Ruby · 5 ep.
Roseanne
1 ep.
It's Garry Shandling's Show
as Red Buttons · 1 ep.
227
1 ep.
