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- NAME: Red Buttons
- OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Theater Actor, Comedian, Television Personality
- BIRTH DATE: February 05, 1919
- DEATH DATE: July 13, 2006
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
- PLACE OF DEATH: Century City, Los Angeles, California
- Originally: Aaron Chwatt
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Actor Red Buttons got his name from the flame-colored hair and uniform as a bellhop. He is best known as a comedian but he had a prolific film career as well.
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Play NowRed Buttons. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 07:39, May 19, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/red-buttons-179185.
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Red Buttons [Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 May 19] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/red-buttons-179185.
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Red Buttons. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/red-buttons-179185. Accessed May 19, 2013.
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