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Born: 2/5/1919 · New York, NY

Biography: The son of a milliner from New York City's Lower East Side, Aaron Chwatt became a performer after winning an amateur contest at age 12. Six years later he was a singing bellboy in a Bronx tavern. It is from the uniform that he took his famous moniker, Red Buttons. A talented …

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13 Rue Madeleine [Movie] as Dispatcher

2008

Hatari! [Movie] as Pockets

2008

Winged Victory [Movie] as Whitey

2006

Goodnight, We Love You: The Life and Legend of Phyllis Diller [Movie]

2004

Sayonara [Movie] as Joe Kelly

2004

Street Time [TV Series] as Sam Cahan

2002

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Year
Result
Award
Movie

2005
Won
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Best Guest Actor in a Drama
ER: Season 11

1969
Won
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

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