Released album “Radio Classics: Burns and Allen Volume II”.
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George Burns
George Burns was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks. He and his wife Gracie Allen appeared on radio, television and film as the comedy duo Burns and Allen.
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entertainment · American entertainer (1896–1996) · comedian · writer · television actor · film actor · actor · singer · television presenter · also George Burns, George N. Burns, Burns
Born 20 January 1896 · Died 9 March 1996 · Q344793
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2002· 1 entry
1996· 3 entries
Died 1996-03-09.
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Burns died in his Beverly Hills home of heart failure
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“Happiness is having a loving, close knit family in another city.”
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1995· 1 entry
Los Angeles renamed the eastern end of Alden Drive "Gracie Allen Drive
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1994· 1 entry
And underwent surgery to remove fluid in his skull
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “An Evening With George Burns”.
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording (1991).
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1986· 1 entry
The city of Los Angeles renamed the northern end of Hamel Road "George Burns Road
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Burns & Allen”.
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1984· 1 entry
In the new category of live performance, or live theatre, established that year
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Young at Heart”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “I Wish I Was Eighteen Again”.
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1979· 1 entry
At 83, Burns starred in two feature films, Just You and Me, Kid and Going in Style
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1977· 1 entry
Burns made another hit film, Oh, God
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Sunshine Boys (1976).
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1974· 2 entries
“s death was when Benny died. He was chosen to give one of the eulogies at the funeral and said,”
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Burns's close friend Jack Benny signed to play one of the lead roles in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film version of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (Red Skelton was originally the other lead, but he objected to some of the sc
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “George Burns Sings”.
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1964· 1 entry
Burns immersed himself in work
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1949· 1 entry
After 12 years at NBC, the couple took the show back to its original network CBS, where they had risen to fame from 1932 to 1937
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1941· 1 entry
Burns and his fellow writers redeveloped the show as a situation comedy
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1938· 1 entry
Paramount producer and managing director William LeBaron was planning a vehicle for Burns and Allen to team with established star Bing Crosby, with a script written by Don Hartman and Frank Butler
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1917· 1 entry
But failed the physical examination because he was extremely nearsighted
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1896· 2 entries
Born 1896-01-20.
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In New York City, the ninth of 12 children born to Hadassah "Dorah" (née Bluth; Hebrew: הדסה בלוט בירנבוים; 1857–1927) and Eliezer Birnbaum (Hebrew: אליעזר בירנבוים; 1855–1903), known as Louis or Lippa, Jewish immigrants
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