Red Buttons - biography

“If I lose show business - I’ll really be an orphan!”

“Then, there was Cary Grant.  He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.”

“I’ll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.”

“I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.”

“Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.”

“There is only one goal.  That’s to keep working and keep flossing.”

“When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way.  If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he’d get a Bloody Mary.”

Red Buttons has appeared in the following films:
Winged Victory (1944)
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Footlight Varieties (1951)
Sayonara (1957)
Imitation General (1958)
The Big Circus (1959)
One, Two, Three (1961)
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Gay Purr-ee (1962)
Hatari! (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Your Cheatin’ Heart (1964)
Up from the Beach (1965)
Stagecoach (1966)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Gable and Lombard (1976)
Pete’s Dragon (1977)
Viva Knievel! (1977)
Movie Movie (1978)
When Time Ran Out... (1980)
18 Again! (1988)
The Ambulance (1990)
It Could Happen to You (1994)
The Story of Us (1999)