Jackie Gleason
- Born
- 26 February 1916
- Died
- 24 June 1987 (aged 71)
- Place of birth
- Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Birth name
- Herbert Walton Gleason Jr.
- Height
- 177 cm
- Known for
- Actor
Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools. He was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver and a disc jockey, and later a comedian in night clubs. By the mid-1950s he had turned to writing original music and recording a series of popular and best-selling albums with his orchestra for Capitol Records. Joining ASCAP in 1953, his instrumental compositions include "Melancholy Serenade", "Glamour", "Lover's Rhapsody", "On the Beach" and "To a Sleeping Beauty", among numerous others.
