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).

Stage Appearances

• Keep Off the Grass (1940)
• Artists and Models (1943)
• Follow the Girls (1944)
• Along Fifth Avenue (1949)
• Take Me Along (1959)