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Emmett Leo Kelly was born in Sedan, Kansas on December 9, 1898. His father, Thomas, was a section foreman for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad. While he was still a child, the family moved to Southern Missouri where his father had purchased a farm in Texas County, near the community of Houston, Missouri. [1] In the summer of 1909, he attended both ...
Two hoboes, one carrying a bindle, walking along railroad tracks after being put off a train (c. 1880s –1930s). A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. [1] [2] Hoboes, tramps, and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; a bum neither travels nor works.
This is a list of animated short films.The list is organized by decade and year, and then alphabetically. The list includes theatrical, television, and direct-to-video films with less than 40 minutes runtime.
There are traditionally three basic types of clowns that appear in the circus: the whiteface, the auguste and the character. A fourth type, the tramp or hobo clown, is often recognized separately, though similar to the other three types. Absolute definitions of what constitutes each clown type varies, with performers encompassing an extremely ...
Clancy and Company / Clancy and Willie (with John Gallos, Allan Lotsberg) WCCO-TV 1963–77. Clancy the (Keystone) Cop (with John Gallos) WCCO-TV 1959–61. Clancy the Space Cop (with John Gallos) WCCO-TV 1961. Commodore Cappy (with John Gallos) WCCO-TV 1957–59.
Oleg Popov (1930–2016), Russian clown, student of Karandash. Otto Griebling – (1896–1972), American Master Clown with the Cole Bros. and Ringling circuses. Muhammad Ali with clowns Charlie Frye and Skeeter Reece in 1980. Paul Hunt – gymnast clown. Pierre Étaix (1928–2016), French clown, comedian and filmmaker.
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms. The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin.
Bozo the Clown, sometimes billed as "Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown", is a clown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century. He was introduced in the United States in 1946, and to television in 1949, later appearing in franchised television programs of which he was the host, where ...