Jackie Gleason

Nascido(a) em
26 de fevereiro de 1916 · Bushwick, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, Nova Iorque, EUA
Falecido(a) em
24 de junho de 1987 · Fort Lauderdale, Flórida, EUA (câncer de cólon e fígado)
Nome de nascimento
Herbert Walton Gleason Jr.
Apelidos
- "The Great One"
- "The Abdominal Showman"
- "Mr. Miami Beach"
Altura
1,77 m

Often played a working class everyman
Stocky build
Ralph Kramden says to Alice "One of these days, one of these days POW right in the kisser".

The popular Hanna-Barbera character Fred Flintstone was based on him, as "The Flintstones" animated series was loosely based on "The Honeymooners". Upon realizing this, Gleason tried to file a lawsuit against Hanna-Barbera but was dissuaded from doing so by friends and colleagues who advised him that it would be bad for his reputation if he became known as "the man who killed Fred Flintstone.".
Buried in Miami, FL. His gravesite is all that one would expect. Engraved in the "riser" of the second step from the top is the classic, "AND AWAY WE GO".
The set of The Honeymooners (1955) show was based on his childhood home on Chauncey Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant (originally Bushwick) area of Brooklyn, NY. The apartment building is still there and looks very much the same as in Jackie's time.
He was legendary for his dislike of rehearsal, even in the early days of live TV. Yet he was equally renowned for his total mastery and control over each production detail and insisted on the show credit: "Entire Production Supervised by Jackie Gleason."
Had an interest in the occult as well as an extensive collection of books on the paranormal.

Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.
[trademark line] How sweet it is!"
I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.
The worst thing you can do with money is save it.
[on what inspired him to became a "mood music" legend, via a series of successful albums] Every time I ever watched Clark Gable do a love scene in the movies, I'd hear this really pretty music, real romantic, come up behind him and help set the mood. So I'm figuring that if Gable needs that kinda help, then a guy in Canarsie has gotta be dyin' for something like this.