Jackie Gleason

Herbert John "Jackie" Gleason (February 26, 1916 - June 24, 1987), nicknamed "The Great One", was a rotund, Brooklyn-born comedian famous for brash humor and fast ad-libs who immortalized his Chauncey Street neighborhood in The Honeymooners, playing bus driver Ralph Kramden alongside his pal and upstairs neighbor, sewer worker Ed Norton, and their wives Alice Kramden and Trixie Norton. The foursome were later transplanted into the Stone Age on the animated cartoon series The Flintstones, the entire show being a tribute to The Honeymooners, albeit with both couples eventually having children (Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm).

Filmography

• Navy Blues (1941)
• Steel Against the Sky (1941)
• All Through the Night (1942)
• Lady Gangster (1942)
• Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942)
• Larceny, Inc. (1942)
• Escape from Crime (1942)
• Orchestra Wives (1942)
• Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
• The Desert Hawk (1950)
• The Hustler (1961)
• Gigot (1962) (also writer)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
• Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
• Soldier in the Rain (1963)
• Skidoo (1968)
• How to Commit Marriage (1969)
• Don't Drink the Water (1969)
• How Do I Love Thee? (1970)
• Mr. Billion (1977)
• Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
• Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
• The Toy (1982)
• The Sting II (1983)
• Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983)
• Nothing in Common (1986)