Ed Wynn
Ed Wynn ( born November 9, 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, † June 19, 1966 in Beverly Hills, California, USA; actually Isaiah Edwin Leopold ) was an American film and stage actor and comedian. Wynn was nominated in 1960 for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Life
Isaiah Leopold, son of European Jewish immigrants, already knew early on what he wanted to be actors. After graduating from the Central High School of Philadelphia, he was 15 years away from home to work as an errand boy for a theater group. However, this soon went bankrupt, so that Leopold had to return home. There he earned as Damenhutverkäufer in his father his first livelihood.
In order to spare his parents the shame that had brought his pulling with it, he changed his name, in reference to his middle name Edwin in Ed Wynn, five months after his return home to New York City to draw. There Wynn was a member of a vaudeville theater and so was the first recognition. With its distinctive design as well as its stereotypical, mostly awkward characters he portrayed on stage, Wynn was soon nicknamed The Perfect Fool ( " The perfect idiot ").
In 1914 he first appeared on Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. 's Ziegfeld Follies in, a theater on Broadway, where he was initially able to achieve success. But he came with another star of Ziegfeld, WC Fields, visibly together and provoked a highly media feud with Stars, which culminated in a meeting organized by Ed Wynn strike the actor in 1919. Shortly after Wynn was released. The boycott, as well as the subsequent lull in theater offers compensated Wynn, as he himself wrote plays in the 1920s and produced.
1922 Ed Wynn met for the first time on the radio and in the following years he had great success as a radio comedian with programs such as Ed Wynn, the Fire Chief - one of his signature roles - Perfect fool and Ed Wynn's grave bag. In 1927, he stood in Rubber heels for the first time in front of the film camera. It was now the medium of film, the Ed Wynn enthusiastic. After he had inserted pause 1933-1949, a 16 -year-old was in the back to Broadway, he produced from 1949 to 1950 The Ed Wynn Show, one in the U.S. only moderately successful music-hall show; this was discontinued after only 38 issues. Nevertheless, Wynn won a 1950 Emmy for Best Live Show of the Year.
After 1951 the Mad Hatter lent his voice in the popular Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland, followed by film and television deals. In the 1960s, Wynn was a familiar face in a series of mostly directed by Robert Stevenson Walt Disney productions. Unforgettable is especially his portrayal of previous to the ceiling with laughter Uncle Albert in the film musicals Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, 1964). Among his best known films include his next few serious roles in The Greatest Story Ever Told, produced in 1965, and The Diary of Anne Frank from the year 1959. Wynn For the latter film received a 1960 Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Despite his illness, Parkinson's disease Wynn stood until shortly before his death in front of the camera.
He was married three times. Between 1914 and 1937 he was married to Hilda Keenan. However, both the marriage with her as his next partnerships with Frieda Mierse (1937-1939) and Dorothy Nesbitt (1946-1955) failed. From his marriage with Hilda Keenan emerged son Keenan Wynn, who also became an actor and with the Ed Wynn for The Flying Pauker ( The Absent Minded Professor, 1961) and The Pathfinder 's can not leave ( Son of Flubber, 1963) also jointly before the camera was. In The Flying Pauker Ed Wynn was also able to again attach his signature role as fire chief.
Ed Wynn, which today are dedicated to the Walk of Fame three stars, died age of 79 from cancer.