ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
Vaudeville comedian who moved into movies and then into television in the fifties; some slapstick and mugging; he may have been the best mime America ever produced. He created a number of characters derived from the Archetypes, including Clem Kadiddlehopper,
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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